1st Edition
Classical Concert Studies A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance
Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplinary field of Concert Studies, offering fresh ways of understanding the classical music concert in the twenty-first century. It brings together essays, research articles, and case studies from scholars and music professionals including musicians, music managers, and concert designers. Gathering both historical and contemporary cases, the contributors draw on approaches from sociology, ethnology, musicology, cultural studies, and other disciplines to create a rich portrait of the classical concert’s past, present, and future.
Based on two earlier volumes published in German under the title Das Konzert (The Concert), and with a selection of new chapters written for the English edition, this companion enables students, researchers, and practitioners in the classical and contemporary music fields to understand this emerging field of research, go beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and methodologies, and spark a renaissance for the classical concert.
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Concert Studies
Martin Tröndle and Esther Bishop
I. The Concert as an Event
1. A Concert Theory
Martin Tröndle
2. Music as Text, Music as Performance
Nicholas Cook
3. 4′33": The Concert as a Performative Moment
Jens Roselt
4. The Discovery of Listening in the Concert
Gerhard Schulze
5. Between Formalization and Exaggeration: An Ethnomusicological Perspective
Raimund Vogels
6. Concert Formats: Liturgy—Ritual—Power?
Elena Ungeheuer
II. Programs, Formats, and Media
7. From Program Leaflets to Listening Apps: A Brief History of Guided Listening
Christian Thorau
8. Space, Light, Proximity: Aspects of Historical Performance Practice
Beatrix Borchard
9. Preludes, Fantasias, and Collages: Improvisation, a Forgotten Art in the Classical Concert
Maria I. J. Reich
10. Concert Design: Form Follows Function
Folkert Uhde
11. Musical Curator and Concert Director
Markus Fein
12. The Yellow Lounge Reinvents the Concert Forum
David Canisius in conversation with Martin Tröndle
13. Strategies for the Production of Presence
Matthias Rebstock
III. Space—Sound—Instruments
14. Noise and Sound
The Historicity and Sociability of the Senses
Steffen Höhne
15. From Sound to Noise: The History of Hearing in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Peter Payer
16. The Soundscape of Vienna: Pictorial Essay
Martin Tröndle
17. The Cultural Dimensions of Atmospheres: Sociological Observations of the Resonanzraum in Hamburg
Hanna Katharina Göbel
18. A Sociological Reflection on the Concert Venue
Volker Kirchberg
19. Cinema for the Ears: Technical Developments in Acoustics and Loudspeaker Systems
Ludger Brümmer
20. Digital Encore: Virtualization, Live Coding, and New Interfaces
Dennis Kastrup
IV. The Audience and the Musicians
21. Between Audience Decline and Audience Development: Perspectives on the Professional Musician, Music Education, and Cultural Policy
Heiner Gembris and Jonas Menze
22. Musical, Social, and Moral Dilemmas: Investigating Audience Motivations to Attend Concerts
Stephanie Pitts
23. Studying Music . . . And Then What?
Esther Bishop
24. "Playing Concerts Is Not Enough": On the Identity of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Albert Schmitt in conversation with Martin Tröndle
25. Women in Music Culture: A History of (Non-)Participation?
Susanne Rode-Breymann
26. The Konzerthaus Berlin: A Concert Hall in Transition
Sebastian Nordmann in conversation with Martin Tröndle
27. Audience Development and Engagement
Constanze Wimmer
V. Economy and Policy
28. The Influence of Economic Variables in the Concert Industry
Michael Hutter
29. Roll Over Beethoven . . .: Notes on Concerts under Conditions of the Culture Industry
Roger Behrens
30. The Dematerialization of Music: How Streaming Technology Impacts Music Production and Consumption
Lukas Krohn-Grimberghe
31. The "New Classic"
Christian Kellersmann
32. Actors in the Classical Music Business: A Media Discourse Analysis
Markus Rhomberg and Martin Tröndle
VI. Concert Research
33. A Manifesto of Concert Culture
Steven Walter
34. Concerto21: A Didactic Introduction for Concert Development
Martin Tröndle
35. The Researching Orchestra: Innovative Collaborations between Symphonic Orchestras and Knowledge Institutions
Peter Peters, Stefan Rosu, and Ruth Benschop
36. The Classical Concert as an Object of Empirical Aesthetics
Christoph Seibert, Jutta Toelle, and Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann
Index
Biography
Martin Tröndle is the WÜRTH Chair of Cultural Production at Zeppelin University, Germany, and a principal investigator of ECR—Experimental Concert Research, a project that investigates aesthetic experience in the classical concert. He is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy.
