Abschnittsübersicht

      • Einklappen Ausklappen

        Oct 28th. Modern era (before 1900)

        • Each student prepares one example (from Harley or else): Present to the group a piece of music, elaborating on the degree of adaptation you find in rendering the bird song into human music. Optional: find some supplementing literature.

          15 mins for each presentation (including discussion): We won’t have time to listen to all pieces. Please choose a suitable excerpt and keep focus in your analysis as well. 

        • Reading Datei

          For a discussion of programing such pieces please prepare at least p. 273–277 or this text:

          Herrmann-Fertig, Lisa: „Multispecies Ethnomusicology – zur Relevanz sorgsamen Zuhörens in Vielfachkrisen“. In Hingehört! Der Sound des Anthropozäns / Listen! The Sound of the Anthropocene, herausgegeben von Lisa Herrmann-Fertig und Michaela Fenske, 271–293.

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        Nov 4th. Bird Song in medieval music

        • Leach2007 Datei
          Leach, Elizabeth Eva. Sung Birds: music, nature, and poetry in the later Middle Ages. Cornell University Press, 2007.
           
          Please prepare the introduction (p. 1–9) and the musical example p. 84–90.
          Feel free to preparte another example from the book of your own choice.
           

        • Further Reading:

          I have written about the exclusion of animal sounds from musicology in the first half of the 20th century in Chapter II.3.a of my book Von Admiral bis Zebrafink, p. 256–274; specifically 259–266; about the talk by Friedrich Blume in the 1950s in the introduction to Part. II.1, p. 166–169.

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        Nov 11th. 20th century: Messiaen - a milestone?

        • Please prepare: Verzeichnis

          Messiaen, Olivier: Technik meiner musikalischen Sprache. Text und Musikbeispiele, übers. v. Sieglinde Ahrens, Paris o.D. [Vorwort dat. 1941]

          Hill, Peter: From Réveil des oiseaux to Catalogue d’oiseaux. Messiaen’s Cahiers de notations des chants d’oiseaux, 1952–59, in: Messiaen perspectives 1: Sources and Influences, ed. by Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon, Farnham/Burlington 2013, S. 143–174.

        • Further Reading Verzeichnis

          Messiaen, Olivier. Olivier Messiaen. Texte, Analysen, Zeugnisse. Ed. by Wolfgang Rathert, Herbert Schneider et al. Bd. 1. Hildesheim, 2012.

          Hill, Peter and Nigel Simeone: Olivier Messiaen. Oiseaux exotiques, Aldershot 2007. [You'll find some excerpts and the tracks of the accompanying CD in the Nextcloud-Folder.]

          Messiaen, Olivier. Traité de rythme, de couleur et d’ornithologie. 7 vols. Leduc, 1994. Excerpt from Vol. 5,1
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        Nov 18th. Aspects of representation

        • Please prepare: Verzeichnis
          1. Either (a, in German) or (b, in English):
           
          (a) Voigt, Alwin. Exkursionsbuch zum Studium der Vogelstimmen. Praktische Anleitung zum Bestimmen der Vögel nach ihrem Gesange. 4. Aufl. Hans Schultze Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1906. p. 18—25
          (b) Saunders, Aretas A. „Suggestions for Better Methods of Recording and Studying Bird Song“. Auk 32 (1915): p. 173–183.
           
          2. Either (a) or (b): 
           
          (a) Fallon, Robert. „The record of realism in Messiaen’s bird style“. In Olivier Messiaen. Music, Art and Literature, ed. by Christopher Dingle and Nigel Simeone. Ashgate, 2007. p. 116–136.
          (b) Taylor, Hollis. „Whose Bird Is It? Messiaen’s Transcriptions of Australian Songbirds“. Twentieth-Century Music 11, Nr. 01 (2014): 63–100.

        • Further reading: 

          Heiter, Susanne (2021). Von Admiral bis Zebrafink. Tiere und Tierlaute in der Musik nach 1950. Forum Musikwissenschaft, Band 13. Edition Argus, 2021. https://doi.org/10.25366/2023.229, p. 125–149. A short survey over historical notation of bird song, as well as trancriptions of Olivier Messiaen and Hollis Taylor.

          Ullrich, Martin. „‚Singen die Vögel überhaupt?‘“ In: Zwischen Komposition und Hermeneutik. Festschrift für Harmut Fladt, herausgegeben von Ariane Jeßulat, Andreas Ickstadt, und Martin Ullrich. Würzburg, 2005.
        • Ullrich2005 Datei