Schrei und Utopie

"Scream and Utopia" – the following musical reflections oscillate between these two contrasting concepts. The dialectical title of this book becomes a leitmotif in the search for modernity in music, regardless of when it was composed.

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 aimed at all readers who are ready to take on board new ideas about music and discover connections in music history between "cry and utopia."

edited by Tobias Klich

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Form table St. Matthew Passion

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