Resumen de Can the pictures the story?: reflections on images in some Sydney Spanish manuscripts
Jane Morlet Hardie (col.)
This study looks at some interactions between image, music and text in three of Sydney University's Spanish manuscripts. There are no grand gestures in these manuscripts. There are no pictures of musical instruments, nor of people singing or playing musical instruments. Nevertheless, the images chosen are compelling in terms of how they can contribute to an understanding of contents and meaning. I argue that some images from these manuscripts may have a function beyond that of just "decorative add ons" and may provide the singer/reader/viewer access to contents, symbolism or even possible provenance of materials even if they cannot read either music notation or the Latin texts. Additionally, an image may function as an aide memoire for singers, and/or bring up questions of memory, homage, reference and allusion.
