Loci communes und Tabulaturen des 16. Jahrhunderts im deutschsprachigen Raum
According to Erasmus of Rotterdam, loci communes, or "commonplaces," were central tools of cognitive thought in the 16th century, as well as indispensable learning and teaching aids in all areas of life, including music. This volume offers a deep insight into the tablature collections of the 16th century. The tablatures examined contain a wide variety of interwoven musical and textual entries on all sorts of topics, such as virtue, God, sin, women, folly, and transience, intended for moral education. Kateryna Schöning demonstrates how instrumental music was embedded in the aesthetic and sensory understanding of the world and early encyclopedias, how instrumental practice in collecting, editing, and compiling texts was closely linked to textual practice, how textual practice, in turn, influenced improvisation and tablature, and what impact it had on musical didactics as well as extramusical media with music, such as libri amicorum. Loci communes (also ‘common places’, or quotations and text excerpts on all topics), according to Erasmus of Rotterdam, were a central instrument of cognitive thinking in the 16th century and an indispensable learning and teaching tool in all areas of life, including music. The book provides an innovative insight into 16th-century tablature collections. Just like diaries, the tablatures examined here contain a wide variety of interwoven musical and textual entries on all kinds of topics, such as virtue, God, sin, women, folly, and vanitas, for the purpose of moral education. Kateryna Schöning shows how instrumental music was embedded in the aesthetic and sensual perception of the world and the early encyclopaedistics, how instrumental technique in collecting, editing and compiling was technically close to textual practice, and how textual practice in turn affected improvisation and intabulation, what effect it had on musical didactics and how it influenced other media with music, such as libri amicorum
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