Classical Concert Studies

A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-53126-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplinary field of Concert Studies, offering fresh ways of understanding the classical music concert in the twenty-first century. It brings together essays, research articles, and case studies from scholars and music professionals including musicians, music managers, and concert designers. Gathering both historical and contemporary cases, the contributors draw on approaches from sociology, ethnology, musicology, cultural studies, and other disciplines to create a rich portrait of the classical concert’s past, present, and future.

Based on two earlier volumes published in German under the title Das Konzert (The Concert), and with a selection of new chapters written for the English edition, this companion enables students, researchers, and practitioners in the classical and contemporary music fields to understand this emerging field of research, go beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and methodologies, and spark a renaissance for the classical concert.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trondle, Martin

Tröndle, Martin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dorset, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Musikindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

List of contributors



Concert Studies

I. The Concert as an Event

1. A Concert Theory

2. Music as Text, Music as Performance

3. 4’33"

The Concert as a Performative Moment

4. The Discovery of Listening in the Concert

5. Between Formalization and Exaggeration: An Ethnomusicological Perspective

6. Concert Formats: Liturgy—Ritual—Power?



II. Programs, Formats, and Media

7. From Program Leaflets to Listening Apps: A Brief History of Guided Listening

8. Space, Light, Proximity: Aspects of Historical Performance Practice

9. Preludes, Fantasias, and Collages: Improvisation, a Forgotten Art in the Classical Concert

10. Concert Design: Form Follows Function

11. Musical Curator and Concert Director

12. The Yellow Lounge Reinvents the Concert Forum

13. Strategies for the Production of Presence



III. Space—Sound—Instruments

14. Noise and Sound: The Historicity and Sociability of the Senses

15. From Sound to Noise: The History of Hearing in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

16. The Soundscape of Vienna: Pictorial Essay

17. The Cultural Dimensions of Atmospheres: Sociological Observations of the resonanzraum in Hamburg

18. A Sociological Reflection on the Concert Venue

19. Cinema for the Ears: Technical Developments in Acoustics and Loudspeaker Systems

20. Digital Encore: Virtualization, Live Coding, and New Interfaces



IV. The Audience and the Musicians

21. Between Audience Decline and Audience Development:

Perspectives on the Professional Musician, Music Education, and Cultural Policy

22. Musical, Social, and Moral Dilemmas: Investigating Audience Motivations to Attend Concerts

23. Studying Music. And Then What?

24. "Playing Concerts Is Not Enough": On the Identity of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

25. Women in Music Culture: A History of (Non-)Participation?

26. The Konzerthaus Berlin: A Concert Hall in Transition

27. Audience Development and Engagement



V. Economy and Policy

28. The Influence of Economic Variables in the Concert Industry

29. Roll Over Beethoven.: Notes on Concerts under Conditions of the Culture Industry

30. The Dematerialization of Music: How Streaming Technology Impacts Music Production and Consumption

31. The "New Classic"

32. Actors in the Classical Music Business: A Media Discourse Analysis



VI. Concert Research

33. A Manifesto of Concert Culture

34. Concerto21: A Didactic Introduction for Concert Development

35. The Researching Orchestra: Innovative Collaborations between Symphonic Orchestras and Knowledge Institutions

36. The Classical Concert as an Object of Empirical Aesthetics



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Tröndle is the WÜRTH Chair of Cultural Production at Zeppelin University, Germany, and a principal investigator of ECR—Experimental Concert Research, a project that investigates aesthetic experience in the classical concert. He is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy.