Musical Competitions 1766-1870: Outline, Database and Bibliography on the Basis of Music Periodica

该项目旨在收集1766年至1870年与音乐相关的比赛的全面信息。这些素材之所以具有很强的启发性，有几个原因：1.它使音乐学能够讨论更广泛的社会竞争问题，这些问题最近在人文科学的其他学科中处于领先地位。2.为以后研究审美(音乐)判断的政治学和社会学提供了重要素材。3.它侧重于在传统的音乐史大师叙述中尚未考虑到的音乐实践、内容和对象，尽管从文化史的角度来看，它们具有实质性的意义，但往往是未知的。该项目专注于一种来源类型，它允许对音乐比赛进行尽可能广泛的调查(同时在方法上保持一致和易于管理)：音乐期刊。具体目标有三个：完整地获取数据库中的材料(1)、关于比赛的理论文章和评论的参考书目(2)和所述时期与音乐有关的比赛的描述性大纲(3)。该项目的目标是基础研究，因为它打算使用明确定义的原始材料来发现、揭示和描述一个特定(重要但未知的)主题的主要特征。

The project aims at gathering comprehensive information about music related competitions from 1766 to 1870. The source material in question is for several reasons highly instructive: 1. It allows musicology to take up the discussions about the broader issues of competition in society recently being lead in other disciplines of the humanities. 2. It offers a guide to important material for later studies on the politics and sociology of aesthetic (musical) judgment. 3. It focusses on musical practices, contents and objects that have not yet been considered in traditional master narratives of music history and that are often unknown although they are of substantial significance from a cultural-historical point of view. The project concentrates on a source type that allows a survey over musical competitions as broad as possible (while at the same time being methodologically consistent and manageable): music periodicals. The concrete goal is threefold: a complete capture of the material in the database (1), a bibliography of theoretical articles and commentaries on competitions (2) and a descriptive outline of music related competitions of the period mentioned (3). The project aims at fundamental research in that it intends to detect, open up and describe the main features of a specific (important, yet unknown) topic using a clearly defined source material.