Two angels playing the vielle and the gittern and an angel singing
Performer(s)
- musician with gittern
- musician with vielle
- singer
Performer information
Type: musician
Genre: angel
Posture: standing
Instrument information
| Instrument : gittern - (Hornbostel-Sachs system: 321.32 ) |
Performer information
Type: musician
Genre: angel
Comment: Face destroyed. Head tilted toward the right.
Instrument information
| Instrument : vielle - (Hornbostel-Sachs system: 321.322-71 ) |
Performer information
Type: singer
Genre: angel
Performance-text relation: book held in the left hand
Posture: standing
Comment: This character does not have wings, but it is dressed like the other angels and is depicted with a halo.
Number of performers: 3
Organization of visual space involving performance: disposed in vertical registers
Interactions between performers: 1 singer (404)-1 musician (405) : converging looks, body orientation, identical colors
Relative position of the performer(s) and the written support in the image: book held in the left hand
Comment: The two angel musicians are opposite each other, the cantor is under the leftist musician. The angels are placed under dais forming the amount of stained glass; they frame Saint Eloi before Dagobert; a fourth angel holding a chalice is placed under the leftist instrumentist. The angels are in grisaille with silver yellow highlights, which contrasts with the saints painted in color, but we find this contrast on the other scenes of the windows of this chapel.
Function of the sound: glorification
Reference to music theory and musical perfection: harmony
Context of the sound: angelic music, music of the Church
Comment: The ears of the saints are visible, but their hearing of the music of the angels is not obvious, they seem to speak together.