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。有问题的源材料是高度有益的几个原因：1。它使音乐学能够讨论最近在人文学科的其他学科中领导的更广泛的社会竞争问题。2.它提供了一个指导的重要材料，为以后的研究政治学和社会学的审美（音乐）判断。3.它关注的是音乐实践、内容和对象，这些在传统的音乐史大师叙事中还没有被考虑到，而且往往是未知的，尽管它们从文化历史的角度来看具有重大意义。该项目集中在一个源类型，允许调查的音乐比赛尽可能广泛（而在同一时间是方法上的一致性和可管理的）：音乐期刊。具体目标有三个方面：数据库中材料的完整捕获（1），理论文章和比赛评论的参考书目（2）以及所述时期音乐相关比赛的描述性概述（3）。该项目旨在进行基础研究，因为它打算使用明确定义的源材料来发现，揭示和描述特定（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.