Le 1er juillet 2017
de 14h00 à 14h30
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3208
Séance - Analytical Methodologies and the Music of the 17th Century
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Moritz Heffter
The starting point of my research are the new concepts of music theory in the early 17th century and especially the early triadic theories of Henricus Baryphonus and Johannes Lippius and the rhetorical and analytical approaches of Joachim Burmeister.
Reading those treatises in order to contextualize their concepts of the triga/trias harmonica and the analytical perspectives of a musica poëtica-treatise, the question arises, whether one could possibly think these approaches together. Both kind of treatises deal with compositional issues. Out of a connection between these contents it might be possible to develop a toolkit that is helpful for the analysis of early Baroque and late Renaissance music. In my talk I will present some basic thoughts and examples on that.
The background for this research is the close-reading of the treatises, which will lead to some analytical perspectives based on historical concepts. The triga/trias harmonica and the extensive description of intervallic progressions based on numeric proportions and the harmonic numbers, is used for an integrated analysis as well as the categories of musical rhetorics. Analysing with these methods delivers perspectives on how a composer makes or could make decisions regarding the scale and tone system as well as intonation and rhetoric.
The final step is to consider how elements of the treatises could be applied to analytical, interpretative and pedagogical work on the repertoire of 17th century music.
