Facets of compositional reflection. The dedications to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

构图反思的各个方面。

• 批准号: 287160633
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/287160633?language=en
• 关键词: Facets; compositional; reflection.; dedications; Felix

This project will focus on the question whether one can detect a specific image of Mendelssohn by analyzing the works that were dedicated to him. Presuming, that a dedication always bears a certain message, the dedicated works will be analyzed with regard to specific musical reflections, holding an emblematic meaning within the musical material. The process of dedication does not only point to the author, but to the addressee. Thus, the music was composed as a denomination to the addressee - assumed the dedication was accepted - and reflected aspects of a musical style, employed or represented by Mendelssohn himself. The compositions can be understood as paratextual sources, in the sense of Gérard Genettes theory of dedication. This means, that the compositions often reflect private, symbolic or intellectual relations between the composer and the addressee, influencing strongly their reception in the public discourse. Moreover, this project will investigate the communicative force of the phenomenon of dedication completing the process of dedication. As a starting point, the historical and theoretical basics of the act of dedicating will be reconstructed. In the next step, the aspects of composition and aesthetic of reception will be examined, with regard to the dedications made to Mendelssohn. Furthermore, the study will examine the structure of the network of dedications surrounding Mendelssohn: Which composer dedicated which work to him? Why and when did he do so? A close look at the exact nature of the relations will allow interesting conclusions about for example the genre the composer chose, to honor Mendelssohn as a friend, teacher or benefactor. The core of the study will then be to analyze the detected dedications regarding their assumed reflection of Mendelssohns work. With these analytical results, the dedications will be examined within the context of their public meaning. The focus will lie on the contemporary media, especially the musical press, which had a considerable influence on the process of dedication. Thus, the aspect of dedication will not only be examined as a compositional phenomenon, but as a part of the reception itself. With this access, the dedications to Mendelssohn will be studied for the first time in a multiperspective way, shedding new light on a composer operating internationally during the 19th Century.

这个项目将关注一个问题，即人们能否通过分析献给门德尔松的作品来发现门德尔松的特定形象。假设献礼总是带有某种信息，献礼作品将根据具体的音乐反映进行分析，在音乐材料中具有象征意义。奉献的过程不仅指向作者，也指向收件人。因此，音乐是作为收信人的一种面额创作的--假设奉献被接受--并反映了门德尔松本人所采用或代表的音乐风格的各个方面。在杰拉德的奉献理论的意义上，这些作品可以被理解为副文本来源。这意味着，作品往往反映了作曲家和收信人之间的私人、象征性或智力关系，极大地影响了它们在公共话语中的接受。此外，本项目还将探讨奉献现象在完成奉献过程中的传播力。作为起点，将重建奉献行为的历史和理论基础。下一步，我们将结合献给门德尔松的作品，探讨接受的构图和美学方面的问题。此外，这项研究将考察围绕门德尔松的奉献网络的结构：哪位作曲家将哪部作品献给了他？他为什么这样做，又是什么时候这样做的？仔细观察这些关系的确切性质，就会得出关于作曲家选择的体裁的有趣结论，以纪念门德尔松作为朋友、老师或恩人。然后，研究的核心将是分析被检测到的奉献，关于他们对门德尔松作品的假设反映。根据这些分析结果，这些奉献将在其公共意义的背景下进行审查。重点将放在当代媒体，特别是音乐媒体，它们对奉献过程产生了相当大的影响。因此，奉献的方面将不仅被视为一种作曲现象，而且将被视为接受本身的一部分。通过这种途径，对门德尔松的献礼将第一次以多角度的方式进行研究，为了解一位19世纪在国际上运作的作曲家提供了新的线索。