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 年间与音乐相关的比赛的全面信息。出于以下几个原因，所讨论的源材料具有很强的指导意义： 1. 它使音乐学能够开始讨论最近在其他人文学科中领先的更广泛的社会竞争问题。 2.它为后来的审美（音乐）判断的政治学和社会学研究提供了重要材料的指导。 3.它侧重于传统音乐史大师叙事中尚未考虑到的音乐实践、内容和对象，这些音乐实践、内容和对象虽然从文化历史的角度来看具有重大意义，但往往不为人所知。该项目集中于一种来源类型，可以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且易于管理）：音乐期刊。具体目标有三个：数据库中材料的完整捕获（1）、比赛理论文章和评论的参考书目（2）以及上述时期音乐相关比赛的描述性大纲（3）。该项目旨在进行基础研究，旨在使用明确定义的源材料来检测、开放和描述特定（重要但未知）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.