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.

该项目将关注一个问题：人们是否可以通过分析门德尔松的作品来发现他的特定形象。假设奉献总是带有一定的信息，奉献的作品将根据特定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，音乐是作为收件人的一个教派而创作的——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。从热拉尔·热内特奉献理论的意义上来说，这些作品可以被理解为副文本来源。这意味着，作品常常反映作曲家和收件人之间的私人、象征或智力关系，强烈影响他们在公共话语中的接受程度。此外，本项目将调查奉献现象完成奉献过程的传播力。作为起点，奉献行为的历史和理论基础将被重建。下一步，将审查构图和接收美学方面，以及对门德尔松的贡献。此外，该研究还将考察围绕门德尔松的奉献网络的结构：哪位作曲家向他奉献了哪部作品？他为什么以及何时这样做？仔细观察这些关系的确切性质，将会得出有趣的结论，例如作曲家选择的流派，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检测到的关于门德尔松作品的假设反映的奉献精神。有了这些分析结果，奉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，尤其是音乐媒体上，它们对奉献的过程产生了相当大的影响。因此，奉献的方面不仅会被视为一种作曲现象，而且会被视为接待本身的一部分。通过这次访问，门德尔松的献词将首次以多视角的方式进行研究，为这位 19 世纪在国际上活跃的作曲家提供新的视角。