ABSTRACT
A major issue in general, and for early music in particular, is the risk of approximation or generalisation. The ubiquity of high-standard domestic visual technology presents challenges for musicologists wishing to use digital technology in academic research. The Musi2R programme, crucially, does not focus on a single place, but on a series of geographically and temporally distinct sites that are linked by their royal and musical functions. The research programme aimed to study music's function in the daily life of the French court during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the musicians' gallery at Fontainebleau, the musical arrangements match these observations. The organ, singers, and players are placed in front of the rounded wall, each facing an open window. The articulation of content is not hierarchical, but the constituent steps are interactive, in the sense that the user builds their experience autonomously and independently.
