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.

这个项目将集中在通过分析门德尔松的作品是否可以发现门德尔松的特定形象的问题上。假设奉献总是承载着一定的信息，那么奉献的作品将被分析为特定的音乐反映，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，音乐是作为收件人的命名而创作的-假设奉献被接受-并反映了门德尔松本人所使用或代表的音乐风格的各个方面。这些作品可以被理解为格姆杰内茨奉献理论意义上的文本来源。这意味着，这些作品往往反映了作曲家和收件人之间私人的、象征性的或智力上的关系，强烈地影响了它们在公共话语中的接受程度。此外，本项目将探讨奉献现象完成奉献过程的传播力。作为起点，本文将重构奉献行为的历史和理论基础。在接下来的步骤中，作曲和审美的接收方面将被检查，关于奉献给门德尔松。此外，本研究将考察门德尔松的奉献网络结构：哪位作曲家将哪部作品奉献给他？他为什么这么做，什么时候这么做的？仔细观察这种关系的确切性质会得出有趣的结论，例如作曲家选择的流派，将门德尔松视为朋友，老师或恩人。然后，研究的核心将是分析检测到的奉献，关于他们对门德尔松作品的假设反映。有了这些分析结果，这些献词将在其公共意义的背景下进行审查。重点将放在当代媒体上，特别是音乐媒体，它们对奉献的过程产生了相当大的影响。因此，奉献的方面将不仅作为一种作曲现象来研究，而且作为接受本身的一部分来研究。通过这次访问，人们将首次以多角度的方式研究门德尔松的献词，从而对这位19世纪在国际上活动的作曲家有了新的认识。