Musical-Cultural Exchange in Early-Modern Europe, ca. 1550-1750

Project period: 2012-2018

Project director: Lars Berglund

Project participants: Katherine Bank (Royal Holloway), Manuel Bärwald (Bach-Archiv Leipzig), Lars Berglund (Uppsala universitet), Olga Gero (Leipzig), Matthew Laube (University of Cambridge), Ester Lebedinski (Uppsala universitet), Mattias Lundberg (Uppsala universitet), Stephen Rose (Royal Holloway), Maria Schildt (Uppsala universitet), Nigel Springthorpe (Royal Holloway), Peter van Tour (Norges musikkhøgskole, Oslo), Peter Wollny (Bach-Archiv Leipzig), Elena Pons Capdevila (Royal Holloway), Laura Ventura Nieto (Royal Holloway), Clemence Destribois (Royal Holloway), Christine Blanken (Bach-Archiv), Bernd Koska (Bach-Archiv), Uwe Philippin (Uppsala universitet) & Louisa Hunter-Bradley (Royal Holloway)

Financier: The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education

This project was a partnership between the Department of Musicology, Uppsala University, Bach-Archiv Leipzig at the University of Leipzig and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Project description

The project aims to initiate, support and promote research and research training in the history of Early Modern music. Merging an overall conceptual framework drawn from social theory and historical anthropology with the methods and materials of traditional musicology, the aim is to study the transfer and exchange of muiscal culture in Europe. This includes the processes of appropriation, translation and hybridisation as they occur in musical repertory, musical sources, musical discourse, and performance practices.

Contact

Lars Berglund