This volume brings together contributions from musicology, philosophy, cognitive science, and performance studies to explore how emotional content in Early Music can be understood and interpreted. Topics include philosophical and aesthetic theories of the passions, reflections on the Affektenlehre and its historiography, vocabularies of emotion in musical and non-musical sources, approaches from the history of emotions, and performative perspectives on historically informed interpretation. The essays reflect the diversity of ways in which emotional content in Early Music can be studied today, offering performers and scholars fresh perspectives on the ways Early Music’s expressive dimension can be approached and interpreted.
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Copyright year
2025
ISBN-Print
978-3-7965-5439-1
ISBN-Online
978-3-7965-5440-7
Publisher
Schwabe, Basel / Berlin
Series
Basler Beiträge zur Historischen Musikpraxis
Volume
44
Language
English
Pages
322
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of Contents No access
Emotions in Early Music. Foreword No access Pages 7 - 12
Emotional Responses to Music Are Shaped by Acoustic Features, Individual Differences, and Contextual Factors No access Pages 13 - 46 Lidya Yurdum, Samuel A. Mehr, Roza Kamiloğlu, Disa Sauter
Von der musikalischen Affektenlehre zur musikalischen Emotionsgeschichte No access Pages 47 - 78 Michele Calella
Permeated by Emotions: An Introduction to the History of Emotions in / and (Early) Music No access Pages 79 - 104 Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild
Music and Emotions in Greek Antiquity: A Case Study from Plato’s Laws No access Pages 105 - 116 Eleonora Rocconi
Emotional Practices in Urban Ritual in Spain in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries No access Pages 117 - 132 Tess Knighton
The Use of Passions: A Preliminary Approach to Claudio Monteverdi’s Emotional Lexicon No access Pages 133 - 176 Andrés Locatelli
Mastering Affects: An Early Modern Debate in Philosophy and Music Theory No access Pages 177 - 192 Christoph Haffter
Dis-Eased Musicking in J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion No access Pages 193 - 216 Bettina Varwig
The Imagination, the Body, the Voice: The Singer’s Expressive Tool Kit as Viewed Through the Lens of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Sources No access Pages 217 - 254 Elizabeth Dobbin
Modality and Ethos / Emotions – Intercultural Approaches. Report on the Roundtable Discussion No access Pages 257 - 262 Kelly Landerkin
“Quando il Senso è Maestro”: Weaving Riccoboni’s Principles Into My Pedagogy of Historical Acting Techniques No access Pages 263 - 286 Deda Cristina Colonna
Affektarien von Johann David Heinichen. Einleitung No access Pages 287 - 292 Johannes Menke
Zur kompositorischen Vervollständigung eines Arienfragments J. D. Heinichens No access Pages 293 - 304 Valentin Richter
Abstracts and Short Biographies No access Pages 305 - 322
