Diploma seminar

B.Sc. seminars

The seminar will discuss 18th-century musical culture, focusing on the works of German composers from the circle of Johann Sebastian Bach and selected issues of music book trade. Special attention will be devoted to the publishing house of Estienne Roger and the role it played in the dissemination of Italian and French music in Central Europe. The seminar will also touch upon issues of methodology, from musical philology, to source criticism, to musical hermeneutics. The seminar is open to English speakers.

The seminar will discuss 18th-century musical culture, focusing on the works of German composers from the circle of Johann Sebastian Bach and selected issues of music book trade. Special attention will be devoted to the publishing house of Estienne Roger and the role it played in the dissemination of Italian and French music in Central Europe. The seminar will also touch upon issues of methodology, from musical philology, to source criticism, to musical hermeneutics. The seminar is open to English speakers.

1. G. Feder, An Introduction to Musical Textual Criticism, Hermeneutics, and Editorial Technique, Pendragon Press 2011.

2. A. Göhler, Verzeichnis der in den Frankfurter und Leipziger Messkatalogen der Jahre 1564 bis 1759 angezeigten Musikalien, Hilversum, 1965 [1902].

3. „Music Publishing in Europe 1600–1900”, ed. Rudolf Rasch, Berlin 2005.

4. H.-J. Schulze, ‘J. S. Bach’s Concerto-arrangements for Organ – Studies or commissioned Works?,’ The Organ Yearbook 3 (1972), pp. 4–13.

5. Ch. Wolff, ‘Bach’s Personal Copy of the Schübler Chorales,’ in: idem, Bach: essays on his life and music, Cambridge – London 1991, pp. 178–186.