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Telemann Studies
Even as Georg Philipp Telemann's significance within eighteenth-century musical culture has become more widely appreciated in recent years, the English-language literature on his life and music has remained limited. This volume, bringing together sixteen essays by leading scholars from the USA, Germany, and Japan, helps to redress this imbalance as it signals a more international engagement with Telemann's legacy. The composer appears here not only as an important early Enlightenment figure, but also as a postmodern one. Chapters on his sacred music address the works' sensitivity to Lutheran and physico-theology, contrasting of historical and modern consciousness, and embodiment of an emerging opus concept. His secular compositions and writings are brought into rich dialogue with French musical and aesthetic currents. Also considered are Telemann's relationships with contemporaries such as Johann Sebastian Bach, the urban and courtly contexts for his music, and his influential position as 'general Kapellmeister' of protestant Germany.
Music at German Courts, 1715-1760
Music at German Courts serves to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century German court music establishments without losing sight of what these Kapellen had in common. What was musical life at German courts really like during the eighteenth century? Were musical ensembles as diverse as the Holy Roman Empire's kaleidoscopic political landscape? Through a series of individual case studies contributed by leading scholars from Germany, Poland, the United States, Canada, and Australia, this book investigates the realities of musical life at fifteen German courts of varied size (ranging from kingdoms to principalities), religious denomination, and geographical location. Signific...
The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Of the four sons of J.S. Bach who became composers, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88) was the most prolific, the most original, and the most influential both during and after his lifetime. This first full-length English-language study critically surveys his output, examining not only the famous keyboard sonatas and concertos but also the songs, chamber music, and sacred works, many of which resurfaced in 1999 and have not previously been evaluated. The bookalso outlines the composer's career from his student days at Leipzig and Frankfurt (Oder) to his nearly three decades as court musician to Prussian King Frederick "the Great" and his last twenty years as cantor at Hamburg. Focusing on the com...
Jean Sibelius
Mäkelä's study brings together German, Nordic and Anglo-American work on Sibelius, and synthesizes these various strands of Sibelius reception into a single coherent critical narrative. This acclaimed study, available in English for the first time, looks at the music of Jean Sibelius in its biographical context. Myths have surrounded Sibelius [1865-1957] and his work, for more than 100 years, often diverting attention away from his creative output. Drawing on many unpublished sources, Mäkelä's study leads us back to Sibelius as a musician and a 'poet' of universal validity. Chapters examine the composer's creativity, inspiration, influence, aspects of genre, as well as the relationship o...
Georg Philipp Telemanns Kantatenjahrgang auf Dichtungen von Gottfried Behrndt
Die vorliegende Studie über Georg Philipp Telemanns 1736/1737 auf Texte von Gottfried Behrndt komponierten Kantatenzyklus stellt erstmals einen einzigen Jahrgang in den Mittelpunkt einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit. Nach einem ersten Vorstoß von Werner Menke in den 1940er Jahren setzte sich die Erforschung von Telemanns geistlichem Kantatenschaffen erst in den 1990er Jahren fort, wobei sich die wenigen umfangreicheren Forschungsarbeiten jeweils mit mehreren Kantatenjahrgängen befassen. Dagegen liefert die Konzentration auf den Behrndt-Jahrgang vertiefte musikanalytische Ergebnisse zu Telemanns Kantatenkomposition. Gleichzeitig werden, um das individuelle werkhafte Profil des Behrndt-Jahrgan...
Music for a Mixed Taste
This first full-length study of Telemann's concertos, sonatas, and suites focuses on his imaginative mixing of styles and genres. Special attention is also devoted to the extra musical meanings and humor of his programmatic overture-suites, his unprecedented self-publishing enterprise, and the social resonances of his Polish-style works.
Jews and Protestants
The book sheds light on various chapters in the long history of Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present. Going beyond questions of antisemitism and religious animosity, it aims to disentangle some of the intricate perceptions, interpretations, and emotions that have characterized contacts between Protestantism and Judaism, and between Jews and Protestants. While some papers in the book address Luther’s antisemitism and the NS-Zeit, most papers broaden the scope of the investigation: Protestant-Jewish theological encounters shaped not only antisemitism but also the Jewish Reform movement and Protestant philosemitic post-Holocaust theology; interactions between Jews ...
"Gesammlet und ans Licht gestellet"
Anthologien sind weit mehr als ein „Museum der Literatur“. Gerade im frühen 18. Jahrhundert werden sie zu Plattformen für vielfältige Reformbemühungen in Poesie, Theologie und Musik, seien sie programmatischer, mediengeschichtlicher oder praxeologischer Natur. Als Beispiel sei nur die Autorschaft von Frauen genannt. Der vorliegende Band vereint literatur- und musikwissenschaftliche sowie theologische Perspektiven auf Anthologien zwischen 1700 und 1750 mit einem Schwerpunkt auf dem protestantisch-mitteldeutschen Raum. Er zeigt, dass Anthologien nicht zuletzt die gemeinsame Tradierung und Rezeption von Kunstpraktiken, Strömungen und Diskursen ermöglichten, die im publizistischen Feld...
Theology, Music, and Modernity
Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity? It has grown out of the conviction that music has often been ignored in narrations of modernity's theological struggles. Featuring contributions from an international team of distinguished theologians, musicologists, and music theorists, the volume shows how music--and discourse about music--has remarkable powers to bring to light the theological currents that have shaped modern culture. It focuses on the concept of freedom, concentrating on the years 1740-1850, a period when freedom--especially religious and political freedom-became a burning matter of concern ...
