Cosima Linke: "On the history of musical subjectivity and expressivity from a discourse-historical and music-analytical perspective"

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Program

The lecture is intended as a contribution to the history and methodology of musical analysis with a special focus on the history of musical subjectivity and expressivity from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. Although various theories of musical subjectivity and expressivity are currently being discussed in the philosophy of music, there is still a lack of approaches that bring together music philosophy, music history and music theory and analysis more closely. This is where a combination of discourse-historical perspectives with more recent hermeneutically oriented methods in music analysis can come in, also in the sense of a 'historically informed' analysis. Accordingly, in addition to the inclusion of selected sources on instrumental music aesthetics, examples of C.P.E. Bach, Ludwig v. Beethoven, Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy as well as Gustav Mahler will shed exemplary light on the history of musical subjectivity and expressivity.

Prof. Dr. Cosima Linke will take up a professorship for musicology/music theory at the College of Music Freiburg in the winter semester 2024/2025. Click here for the news.

We look forward to seeing you at the inaugural lecture on December 17, 2024!