Solistische Instrumentalmusik des 16. Jahrhunderts im süddeutschen Kulturraum

FWF-project M 2062 (Lise-Meitner-Program)

Project duration: 2016–2018

PI: Dr. Kateryna Schöning; in connection with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Lodes

Webseite: www.tablatures-humanism.at

Deutsche Version

The project was the first stage in a larger study that was continued in the follow-up project Soloistic Instrumental Music in the Central European Cultural Region (ca. 1500 – ca. 1550): Instrumental Praxis and Humanistic Contexts (FWF project V661). More than 40 manuscript tablatures for lute and keyboard instruments of southern German provenance were analysed and transcribed into modern notation. The original aims of the project (investigation of so-called "free" music, i.e. pieces and sketches without cantus firmus and vocal models, e.g. praeambula, postludes, preludes or interludes, sketches, exercises and "free" pieces without titles) were specified and significantly expanded. The question arose as to the functions of the manuscripts in compositional, social and didactic terms. Three focal points were developed, which will be further investigated in the follow-up project: 

  • Genuine instrumental entries in the context of changing media (manuscript - print).
  • Genuine instrumental music in a practical and didactic context and its social connection to court scholars, student or bourgeois circles.
  • 'Free' entries in an interdisciplinary humanistic context (humanistic productivity - humanistic education).