Schrei und Utopie

“Scream and Utopia”—the following reflections on music oscillate between these two contrasting concepts. The dialectical title of this book serves as a guiding principle in tracing the modernity of music, regardless of the era in which it was created.

This publication brings together a selection of musicological essays and lectures by Nicolas Schalz to honor his work as a musicologist in society and as a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen from 1977 to 2007 on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The publication brings together texts from the last 40 years for the first time, highlighting both developments and continuities in Nicolas Schalz's thinking about music: the diverse disclosure of music-historical contexts.

The selected analyses focus on two main areas: on the one hand, texts on early music (Guillaume Dufay, Josquin Desprez, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, etc.), and on the other hand zur Musik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Luigi Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Heinz Holliger, Klaus Huber, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Mathias Spahlinger, and others). An important theoretical reference point in his writing is his repeated engagement with the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. Several central works of music history are examined and analyzed from different perspectives in the individual essays.

This book is intended for all readers who are open to new perspectives on music and eager to discover cross-connections in music history between “cry and utopia.”

edited by Tobias Klich

contents

Form table St. Matthew Passion

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