Steinbruch oder Wissensgebäude? Zur Rezeption von Athanasius Kirchers "Musurgia universalis" in Musiktheorie und Kompositionspraxis - Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie 1979- (Basel Schwabe, 2013)
This volume is the first to systematically investigate the reception of a work by Athanasius Kircher. Until now, some well-known negative voices had led to the assumption that his prototypical compilatory approach and universal scientific superstructure had also become obsolete with the early modern period. However, the overviews and representative case studies collected here can demonstrate traces of reception at least for his music encyclopaedia Musurgia universalis into the 18th and even 19th centuries, reaching from Ireland to St. Petersburg. The following guiding questions run through the individual texts: Is the Musurgia received as a whole or only in individual components? What does it stand for? In which contexts is it referred to? Can confessionally different ways of reading and using it be identified? Has Kircher's strong emphasis on the connection between theory and compositional practice been implemented? In this way, the book also invites us to think anew about the boundary between early modernity and modernity.
Umfeld und Kontexte. Musica dell'uomo e musica di Dio: aspetti di "storia della musica" nella Musurgia universalis di Athanasius Kircher / Tiziana Pangrazi -- Ramificazioni dell'encyclopedia: Caramuel e Kircher, e l'ars combinatoria nella composizione musicale / Daniele Sabaino -- "Sopra le sciocchezze del Kirchero stampate in Italia": risvolti e strascichi polemici della Musurgia universalis sullo sfondo del Seicento musicale romano / Claudio Annibaldi. Rezeption im katholischen Raum. "Romanarum Basilicarum Symphoniarchae praestantissimi": la propagazione kircheriana di compositori romani e la politica musicale pontificia / Klaus Pietschmann -- "Was michs kostet, die Indianer in unserer Europäischen Music zu instruiren, ist dem lieben Gott allein bekannt": Kircher und die jesuitische Mission durch Musik in Paraquaria / Jutta Toelle -- Kircher in Wien: Einflüsse auf Theorie und Kompositionspraxis / Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann -- Kirchers Kompositionsschüler an den Habsburgerhöfen: Organisten und Kaiser / Herbert Seifert. Reaktionen und Debatten in Deutschland. Kircher als musiktheoretischer Gewährsmann protestantischer Autoren um und nach 1700 / Klaus-Jürgen Sachs -- Johann Matthesons Polemik gegen Kircher: Zeichen einer gewandelten Wissenschaftskultur? / Hansjörg Drauschke -- Musik, Magie und Andacht / Laurenz Lütteken -- Ernst Anton Nicolais Die Verbindung der Musik mit der Artzneygelahrheith (Halle 1745) / Andreas Waczkat.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-234) and index.
Keywords: Kircher, Athanasius -- 1602-1680; Music theory; Crescendo; Music philosophy and esthetics; Catholicism; Germany