'Stimmung' ('Attunement') between medicine and music aesthetics (ca. 1740-1850)

该项目涉及的概念历史的德语术语Stimmung（协调）的过程中的第二个半的第18世纪和第一个半的第19世纪。在这几十年中，“刺激”的含义从调整乐器的音乐实践转变为神经生理学调谐的概念（Nervenstimmung），并最终转变为情绪意义上的隐喻使用（Gemütsstimmung）。该项目旨在历史上巩固和概念上锐化今天的情感气氛和隐喻使用的术语刺激。在过去的十年里，刺激一直是哲学，文学研究和艺术史的研究焦点。然而，在音乐学中，对刺激概念的学术研究一直非常缓慢。这是所有更令人惊讶的是，今天的刺激是语义和历史上如此紧密地联系在一起的乐器调音的音乐现象。从这个意义上说，该项目旨在追溯刺激的概念历史。1740年，并显示了音乐在这一历史中的重要性。因此，潜在的假设假设，今天的意义刺激-包括粘液实践以及主观的情绪状态，主体间，社会的团结，也审美和大气的经验-基本上是基于转移和18世纪下半叶的生理学和音乐美学之间的知识和神经的生理协调的概念转换（神经刺激），这些跨学科的话语集中。使用精心挑选的医学和美学来源，从1740年至1850年的几十年，该项目的目的是追溯不同的概念刺激在进步的18世纪和他们的转变，在19世纪初。它旨在展示医学和美学这两个学科是如何在相互的话语中转变并从而创造出新的刺激意义的。德语资料将与英语资料相结合，以研究这些转换是如何依赖于特定语言的。该项目的目的是：（1）为音乐学的情感-气氛刺激概念发展一种有历史依据的方法，并在方法上和概念上支持未来对音乐与刺激以及共鸣和气氛等相关概念之间密切联系的研究;（2）强调音乐学在刺激跨学科研究中的作用，该项目计划在卢塞恩大学文化和科学研究系的SNF研究项目“刺激与复调：文学与文化的音乐范式”的范围内进行。

The project deals with the conceptual history of the German term Stimmung (attunement) within the course of the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. During these decades the meaning of Stimmung transformed from the musical practice of tuning musical instruments into the idea of a neurophysiological attunement of the nerves (Nervenstimmung) and eventually into the metaphorical use in the sense of mood (Gemütsstimmung). The project aims to historically consolidate and to conceptually sharpen today’s emotional-atmospheric and metaphorical use of the term Stimmung. In the last decade, Stimmung has been within the research focus of philosophy, literary studies and art history. Within musicology, however, the scholarly examination of concepts of Stimmung has been very sluggish. This is all the more astonishing as today’s Stimmung is semantically and historically so closely linked to the musical phenomenon of instrument tuning. In this sense, the project aims to retrace the conceptual history of Stimmung to ca. 1740 and show the importance of music within this history. Thereby the underlying hypothesis assumes that today’s meaning of Stimmung – that includes mucial practice as well as subjective emotional states, intersubjective, social togetherness and also aesthetical and atmospheric experiences – is fundamentally based on transfer and transformation of knowledge between physiology and music aesthetics within the second half of the 18th century and the concept of a physiological attunement of the nerves (Nervenstimmung) that these interdisciplinary discourses focussed on.Using carefully chosen medical and asthetical sources from the decades between 1740 and 1850 the project aims to trace the different concepts of Stimmung in the progressing 18th century and their transformations in the early 19th century. It aims to show how the two disciplines medicine and aesthetics in a mutual discourse transformed and thereby newly created meanings of Stimmung. German sources will be flanked by English sources to investigate the way these transformations were dependent from a specific language. The project’s aim is (1) to develop a historical founded approach to the concept of emotional-atmospheric Stimmung for musicology and to support methodically and conceptually future studies on the close connection between music and Stimmung as well as related concepts like resonance and atmosphere; and (2) to underline the role of musicology for interdisciplinary research on Stimmung, to increase the mutual capabilities for cooperation and thereby to push forward the discourse.The project is planned to be conducted within the scope of the SNF Research Project Stimmung und Polyphonie: Musikalische Paradigmen in Literatur und Kultur at the Department of Cultural and Science Studies, University of Luzern.