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Patterns of Intuition
The present book is the result of a three year research project which investigated the creative act of composing by means of algorithmic composition. Central to the investigation are the compositional strategies of 12 composers, which were documented through a dialogic and cyclic process of modelling and evaluating musical materials. The aesthetic premises and compositional approaches configure a rich spectrum of diverse positions, which is reflected also in the kinds of approaches and methods used. These approaches and methods include the generation and evaluation of chord sequences using genetic algorithms, the application of morphing strategies to research harmonic transformations, an automatic classification of personal preferences via machine learning, and an application of mathematical music theory to the analysis and resynthesis of musical material. The second part of the book features contributions by Sandeep Bhagwati, William Brooks, David Cope, Darla Crispin, Nicolas Donin, and Guerino Mazzola. These authors variously consider the project from different perspectives, offer independent approaches, or provide more general reflections from their respective research fields.
Opera in Performance
Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions. What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers’ bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones? Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between performers and the audience, representation and presence, the familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings, and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera. This book will particularly interest scholars and students in theater and performance studies, musicology, and the humanities, and may also appeal to operagoers and theater professionals.
Classical Concert Studies
Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplinary field of Concert Studies, offering fresh ways of understanding the classical music concert in the twenty-first century. It brings together essays, research articles, and case studies from scholars and music professionals including musicians, music managers, and concert designers. Gathering both historical and contemporary cases, the contributors draw on approaches from sociology, ethnology, musicology, cultural studies, and other disciplines to create a rich portrait of the classical concert’s past, present, and future. Based on two earlier volumes published in German under the title Das Konzert (The Concert), and with a selection of new chapters written for the English edition, this companion enables students, researchers, and practitioners in the classical and contemporary music fields to understand this emerging field of research, go beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and methodologies, and spark a renaissance for the classical concert.
andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies
andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in Luxembourg (University of Luxembourg), and in Germany (University of Duisburg-Essen). It provides a forum for research and reflection on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, as well as traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This edition features contributions by Carsten Dutt, Klaus Modick, Tanja Nusser, Thomas Pfau, Margarethe von Trotta, and others.
Finisterre II: Revisiting the Last Place on Earth
Finisterre II: Revisiting the Last Place on Earth. Migrations in Spanish and Latin American Culture and Literature is a collective aesthetic, historical, literary, and cultural analysis of how biopolitical, cultural, and economic trends have impacted narratives about migration in the Hispanic world. Considering migrants as protagonists of their stories, the book approaches the migrant as a subject of cultural patrimony and knowledge. The different articles, written by scholars from the United States, Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Ecuador, examine how Hispanic art and narratives of migrancy allow us to re-evaluate the cultural understanding of borders.
Musik und Biographie
Unter dem Motto MUSIK und BIOGRAPHIE vereinigt die Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag des Berliner Musikwissenschaftlers Rainer Cadenbach vielfältige Aufsätze zur Wechselwirkung von musikalischem Schaffen und Aspekten der Biographie sowie zur Problematik biographischer Forschung. Die Auswahl der Autoren (darunter Beatrix Borchardt, Elmar Budde, Arnfried Edler, Michael Heinemann, Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, Freia Hoffmann, Annette Kreutziger-Herr, William Kinderman, Helmut Loos, Wolfgang Rathert, Peter Rummenhöller, Christian Martin Schmidt, Dieter Schnebel, Giselher Schubert u. v. a.) bürgt für eine größtmögliche Fülle von Betrachtungsweisen. Dabei geht es vor allem um das "und": Der Blick erstreckt sich sowohl auf Autobiographisches in der Musik und im künstlerischen Schaffensprozess als auch auf die musikalische Darstellung "fiktiver Biographien" oder den Zusammenhang von Interpretation und Erfahrung. Einige Beiträge aus benachbarten Disziplinen runden die Festschrift ab und zeugen damit zugleich von den breit gestreuten Forschungsinteressen des Jubilars.
The vignette as an exercise in perception / Η βινιέτα ως άσκηση αντίληψης
Pedagogical work requires the willingness to engage with new situations and with people in their diversity. This book does not offer any simple recipes, but a gentle approach to important steps towards professionalisation in the teaching profession. These lead via an open attitude of perception and the inclusion of corporeality to an insight into how learning and teaching processes can be understood in a new or different way. With vignettes and examples from different pedagogical fields, the theoretical concepts are presented and reflected on their application. The book contains an English-language and a Greek-language version.
Musical Biographies
Since the second half of the twentieth century various routes, including history and literature, are offered in dealing with the catastrophe of World War II and the Holocaust. Historiographies and novels are of course written with words; how can they bear witness to and reverberate with traumatic experience that escapes or resists language? In search for an alternative mode of expression and representation, this volume focuses on postwar German and Austrian writers who made use of music in their exploration of the National Socialist past. Their works invoke, however, new questions: What happens when we cross the line between narration and documentation, and between memory and a musical piece...
Musikalisches Bibliodrama
Musikalisches Bibliodrama ist eine aus dem Bibliodramakonzept nach Herman Andriessen und Nicolaas Derksen abgeleitete Form musikalisch-szenischer Improvisation in biblischen Rollen. Auf der Basis von Video- und Fragebogendaten werden musikalisch-bibliodramatische Erfahrungsprozesse phänomenologisch-hermeneutisch interpretiert. Reflektierend, konzipierend und mit dem Ziel einer Sensibilisierung musikpädagogischen Handelns wird der Blick auf ihre strukturellen Bedingungen und Prinzipien gerichtet, die unterstützen, dass Identität und Glaube als Wirklichkeit der Teilnehmenden zur Geltung kommen.
Das Konzert als Resonanzraum
Konzertsituationen mit starken Musikerlebnissen faszinieren, ereignen sich jedoch nur selten. Wie können Musikvermittelnde dieses musikalische Involviertsein, das sich in einer besonderen Zugewandtheit oder Versunkenheit zeigt, begünstigen? Entlang dieser Frage entwickelt Irena Müller-Brozovic eine theoretische Fundierung von Musikvermittlung, die sich auf Hartmut Rosas Resonanztheorie bezieht und Aspekte von intensiven Momenten in Konzertsituationen beschreibt. Sowohl vielfältige Praxisbeispiele als auch ein dynamisches Modell sowie zugehörige Leitfragen dienen dabei als Werkzeug für das Konzipieren und Analysieren von Vermittlungssituationen.
