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年期间与音乐有关的比赛的全面信息。所讨论的原始材料有几个原因很有启发性：1。它使音乐学能够讨论最近在其他人文学科中领先的关于社会竞争的更广泛问题。2. 它为后来的美学（音乐）判断的政治学和社会学研究提供了重要的指导材料。3. 它侧重于音乐实践、内容和对象，这些在传统的音乐史大师叙事中尚未被考虑到，尽管从文化历史的角度来看，它们具有重大意义，但往往是未知的。该项目专注于一种资源类型，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可管理）：音乐期刊。具体的目标有三个：数据库中的材料的完整捕获(1)，关于比赛的理论文章和评论的参考书目(2)，以及提到的时期音乐相关比赛的描述性大纲(3)。该项目旨在基础研究，因为它打算使用明确定义的源材料来检测，打开和描述特定（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.