Arti musices, Vol. 48 No. 2, 2017.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/y26kec37k9
Approaches to the German Reception of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem through Metadata Analysis and Horizontal Reading
Torsten Roeder
orcid.org/0000-0001-7043-7820
; Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Abstract
This paper develops an aspect of my doctoral thesis which focuses on the German reception of Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. It analyzes the critique and commentary in German newspapers and music journals from the period of the first performances in Austria, Germany and Switzerland (1874–78) and outlines two ways of working with a corpus of heterogeneous texts by mostly unknown authors: Metadata analysis helps to distinguish the different scopes of music journals and newspapers, and a »horizontal reading« approach based on viewing the context of individual semantic entities in parallel gives insight into the spectrum of the reception in all sources together.
Keywords
music reception; music critique; Giuseppe Verdi; funeral mass; German 19th-century music; metadata analysis; horizontal reading; digital humanities; digital musicology; text encoding (TEI)
Hrčak ID:
192636
URI
Publication date:
18.1.2018.
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