Cajsa S. Lund

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Cajsa S. Lund
Born (1940-05-23) May 23, 1940 (age 83)
Occupation(s)Music archaeologist; prehistorian

Cajsa S. Lund (born 23 May 1940) is a Swedish music archaeologist and prehistorian, who pioneered the study of sound and music in the archaeological record.

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Biography

Cajsa Christina Desirée Stomberg Lund was born on 23 May 1940 is the daughter of director Sven Stomberg and Ester Ohlson. [1] She studied bassoon and saxophone at the music conservatories in Malmö and Lund from 1960 to 1965. [2] Lund has worked as a bassoonist at the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (1965–1971), as assistant at Stockholm Music Museum's National Inventory (1976–1982), as a research assistant at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1983–1986) and was subsequently a music producer at Rikskonserter. She was one of the founders and secretaries of the Study Group for Music Archeology within the International Council for Traditional Music, which was funded by UNESCO. [3] She has held several international assignments as a music archaeological editor, including for Musikgeschichte in Bildern and written about 30 scientific articles in international journals. As of 2021 she was the research lead on the European Music Archaeology Project. [4]

In the 1970s, Lund began to search for and classify what she termed "sound tools"—objects in museum collections which could be used to create sound. [5] She developed a classification system for these objects to determine the likelihood that a particular object was used to create sound. [5] One of her favourite sound-producing objects is the 'buzz bone'. [5] Her work has influenced artists, including Ruth Ewan. [6]

In 1989 she worked on the interpretation of musical finds which were found in the wreck of the Swedish flagship Kronan. [7]

Selected publications

Articles

Discography

Awards and honours

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References

  1. ↑ "295 (Vem är hon)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). 1988. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  2. ↑ "LUND, CAJSA - A N I M U S I C : Associação Nacional de Instrumentos Musicais / National Association for Musical Instruments - Portugal". www.animusic.eu. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  3. ↑ Administrator. "Cajsa S. Lund". www.emaproject.eu. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  4. ↑ "European Music Archaeology Project". www.emaproject.eu. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  5. 1 2 3 Wild, Sarah (2021-01-12). "The Archaeologists Recreating the Sounds of the Stone Age". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  6. ↑ "The People's Instruments – Ruth Ewan" . Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  7. ↑ "LUND, CAJSA - A N I M U S I C : Associação Nacional de Instrumentos Musicais / National Association for Musical Instruments - Portugal". www.animusic.eu. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  8. ↑ Lund, Cajsa S., and G. Jähnichen. "Early Ringing Stones in Scandinavia–Finds and Traditions, Questions and Problems." [ dead link ]Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis I (2009).
  9. ↑ Lund, Cajsa S. "Prehistoric Soundscapes in Scandinavia." Sounds of History (2008): 12.
  10. ↑ Lund, Cajsa S. (1985). "Bone Flutes in Västergötland, Sweden. Finds and Traditions. A Music-Archaeological Study". Acta Musicologica. 57 (1): 9–25. doi:10.2307/932685. ISSN   0001-6241. JSTOR   932685.
  11. ↑ Emsheimer, Ernst; Lund, Cajsa (1983). "A Swedish Bone Clarinet". The Galpin Society Journal. 36: 125–127. doi:10.2307/841683. ISSN   0072-0127. JSTOR   841683.
  12. ↑ Lund, Cajsa (1981). "A Medieval Tongue-(Lip-)and-Duct Flute". The Galpin Society Journal. 34: 106–109. doi:10.2307/841474. ISSN   0072-0127. JSTOR   841474.
  13. ↑ Lund, Cajsa (1981). "The Archaeomusicology of Scandinavia". World Archaeology. 12 (3): 246–265. doi:10.1080/00438243.1981.9979799. ISSN   0043-8243. JSTOR   124236.
  14. ↑ Lund, Cajsa (1980). "Methoden und Probleme der nordischen Musikarchäologie. Ernst Emsheimer zugeeignet". Acta Musicologica. 52 (1): 1–13. doi:10.2307/932431. ISSN   0001-6241. JSTOR   932431.
  15. ↑ Lund, Cajsa; EXARC Experimental Archaeology Collection Manager (1984). Fornnordiska klanger.The Sounds of Prehistoric Scandinavia,. Booklet and CD. Swedish Music Anthology. Vol. MSCD101. EXARC Experimental Archaeology Collection Manager.
  16. ↑ admin. "Högsta utmärkelsen till fem musikpersonligheter | iMusiken" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  17. ↑ "Caves, Tombs and Megaliths: Sound Archaeology and the Development of Ritual Acoustics". University of Huddersfield Research Portal. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  18. ↑ Lund, Cajsa S.; Rainio, Riitta; Holtorf, Cornelius; Tamboer, Annemies; Morley, Iain; Homo-Lechner, Catherine; Castro, Emiliano Li; Till, Rupert; Gill, Frances (2020). The Archaeology of Sound, Acoustics and Music: Publications of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology, Vol. 3: Studies in Honour of Cajsa S. Lund. Ekho Verlag. ISBN   978-3-944415-39-0.
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