„Was bei jeder andern Kunst noch Beschreibung, ist bei der Tonkunst schon Metapher.“ Bereits Eduard Hanslick wies in seiner Schrift Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (1854) auf die besondere Rolle von Metaphern für das Verstehen von Musik hin. Vom Klang zur Metapher greift die metapherntheoretischen [...]
more informationenglischWhile the tradition of public opera was being established in Venice, the young singer and composer BARBARA entered the private stage of her adoptive father Giulio Strozzi's Accademia degli Unisoni to raise her voice with advanced, highly expressive vocal music. Barbara Strozzi's female [...]
more informationenglischThis study illuminates the origins and genesis of musical hypermeter from the perspective of both historical musical writing and compositional practice, using the example of keyboard dances. It shows how verbal instructions in the 17th and 18th centuries grew beyond the boundaries of dance [...]
more informationenglischArnold Schönberg's String Quartet op. 7 is one of the most demanding chamber music works of the late Romantic period.
The monograph by Hamburg musicologist Peter Petersen approaches the work from three directions: (1) themes and motifs are identified, whereby a theme unmentioned by the [...]
more informationenglischNo other music scholar has had such an international resonance during and after his lifetime as Hugo Riemann. His numerous writings have been translated into many languages and his ideas continue to have an impact right up to the current "Neo-Riemannian Theory".
The articles in this book [...]
more informationenglischBeethoven was considered a master in the field of piano improvisation. This study of Beethoven's Piano Concerto op. 58 shows how much his concertos for piano were also influenced by this, right down to the formal conception of the works. The "peculiar" concerto is unanimously described in [...]
more informationenglischThis volume deals with the relationship between composers and publishers and the consequences for the edition of musical works.
Above all, it deals with the processes between the first transcription and the publication of a work, i.e. the work of copyists and engravers, of editors and [...]
more informationenglischAll symphonies with singing composed in German-speaking countries in the long 19th century are sublime, exceptional compositions in which the idea of angelic choirs plays a role.
When he tried in vain to talk Franz Liszt out of the choral finale in his Dante Symphony, Richard Wagner [...]
more informationenglischThe book attempts to make an understanding of "music as an art of perception" (Helmut Lachenmann), which is significant in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, fruitful for musicology. The central position of sound, time and space in new music since 1900 is embedded in music-historical [...]
more informationenglischSound and sound design shed light on central components of Herbert von Karajan's conducting. These aspects go back to the beginnings of his work, of which he said: "I actually heard two different orchestras at the same time: firstly the actual sound, the result of my work with the real [...]
more informationenglischJohann Sebastian Bach was a projection screen for ideologically shaped cultural policy under both National Socialism and the GDR. Artists served as propaganda instruments in both regimes' efforts to gain political legitimacy. As cultural ambassadors of two dictatorships, the Thomaskantors [...]
more informationenglischIt "takes the imagination for a walk" with diverse modes of expression, writes Sébastien de Brossard about the concertante genre cantata.
Around 1700, the French cantata in particular appeared as a special poetic and musical phenomenon, albeit one of short duration. The cantata, originally [...]
more informationenglischThree Schenkerian-Based Studies is an in-depth examination of three giants of the 19th-century chamber music literature: Mendelssohn’s Sixth String Quartet in F Minor, op. 80, written in 1847 in response to the death of his sister, Fanny Hensel; Schumann’s ground-breaking Piano Quintet in [...]
more informationDie Bach-Lektüren sind Texte, die in die Tiefe und unverwechselbare Originalität Bachscher Musik führen. Der Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler Heinrich Poos hat sie in dreieinhalb Jahrzehnten akribischer Werkerforschung verfasst. Diese Neuedition ist posthum zu seinem Vermächtnis geworden, nicht [...]
more informationIn einer kirchenpolitisch aufgeladenen Zeit, die im Norden Europas in der Spaltung der Kirche gipfelte, widmete sich der katholisch-marianisch geprägte Cristóbal de Morales dem Magnificat. Die polyphone Vertonung von Marias Lobgesang aus Lukas 1, 46b-55 bestimmte zusammen mit Messvertonungen und [...]
more informationHören und Handeln scheinen auf den ersten Blick eine ungewöhnliche Verbindung einzugehen. Denn Handeln bezeichnet eine praktische Tätigkeit, während Hören oft nur eine kontemplative Versenkung in die Klänge darstellt, bei der man sich seinen Empfindungen hingibt. Wenn Erkenntnisse der Ecological [...]
more informationenglischThe history of 20th-century music is particularly characterized by the phenomenon of emigration – often for political reasons, such as the persecution of musicians by totalitarian regimes. Many of these musical emigrants came from Eastern European countries. They also transferred their [...]
more informationenglischNew Horizons in Schenkerian Research is a collection of essays representing an overview of scholarship in the work of Heinrich Schenker. The volume is diverse and includes the work of authors in the United States, Austria, and Germany. Current research involves four broad categories: Theory [...]
more informationenglischRené Descartes' early writing, the Compendium Musicæ, is presented in an annotated new edition with a new translation, lemmatised index and concordance of selections. It is aimed not only at musicologists, philosophers and mathematicians, but also at anyone interested in the history of [...]
more information'We’d better bide a wee', 'Crazy Jane', 'The Lute Player' und 'Always Alone': Diese und zahlreiche weitere englische Songs von Komponistinnen waren im 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert regelrechte Verkaufsschlager, die nicht selten mit Adjektiven wie 'favourite' oder 'popular' beworben wurden. Sie [...]
more informationenglischThis volume is the first scholarly collection in the English language that is fully dedicated to Nikolai Medtner’s (1880–1951) life and work. Its contributions offer a variety of approaches, ranging from analyses and interpretive studies to hermeneutical contexts, and including many insights [...]
more informationenglischThere are two main reasons why Heinrich Schenker became one of the most discussed music theorists of the 20th century: Firstly, his theory enables descriptions of the voice leading, harmony and syntax of tonal works that are as multi-layered as they are consistent. And secondly, Schenker's [...]
more informationDie Orgelwerke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys gehören unbestritten zu den Meilensteinen in der Geschichte der Komposition für die „Königin der Instrumente“. Ihre klangliche Realisierung aber wirft trotz bester Editionslage zahlreiche Fragen bezüglich der Gestaltung und eng damit zusammenhängend der [...]
more informationDer Einzelunterricht steht als traditionelles Unterrichtsformat im Zentrum der künstlerisch-musikalischen Lehre an Musikhochschulen. Trotz dieser enormen Bedeutsamkeit für die Studierenden gibt es insbesondere in Deutschland bisher nur wenige Untersuchungen bezüglich der Qualitätsaspekte im [...]
more informationErgänzend zu ihrer Untersuchung zum Lied der 1830er Jahre legt Maria Behrendt hier eine Ausgabe von Kompositionen vor, die zum großen Teil erstmals in moderner Edition erscheinen. Sie waren im frühen 19. Jahrhundert wesentlicher Bestandteil des musikalischen Kanons, sind heute jedoch als Werke [...]
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