vendredi 12 février 2016
German Song Onstage 1770-191412-14 février 2016, Londres
Deadline: 29 May 2015 Details Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the public musical concert as an artistic, cultural and social phenomenon. The purpose of this conference is to explore the role a largely private genre – German song– played within these public events. Concert programmes are littered with cryptic mentions of ‘Lied' or ‘Gesang', and although the specific songs are rarely listed, song seems to have played a small but essential role in the makeup of public concerts alongside the more obvious symphonies, concerti, overtures and even arias. Furthermore, as William Weber has argued, it was the inclusion of song which upset the eighteenth-century hierarchies of concert genres, leading to a change in concert programming over the century. Alongside this was the gradual emergence of the practice of singing complete song cycles beginning in the 1850s, and the even later concept of the dedicated song recital. We invite researchers to submit proposals exploring the following questions:
Keynote speaker: Professor Susan Youens (University of Notre Dame) We welcome abstracts in English and German of no more than 250 words for
All Abstracts should be accompanied by 250-word biographies of all participants. Abstracts, biographies and requests for further information should be sent to natasha.loges at rcm.ac.uk
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