Franz-Josef Holznagel (Rostock)
Location: Research Beehive 2.20
Time/Date: 11th February 2010, 16:00 - 17:00
Taking the example of a hugely popular late medieval bawdy song “Die welt die hat ain tummen muot” (‘The world is fickle-minded’), the talk demonstrates how the 15th and 16th centuries contribute to the emergence of a distinctive song culture. During this period, a whole range of literary-musical discourses developed that drew on conventional schema to convey their meaning and transformed them for the changing media landscape after the arrival of printing (broadsheets, songbooks in different formats). Within these, the constant exchange of tunes, topics and texts places them in a wide and varied range of contexts. Authors and composers use different forms and techniques of transformation; of special relevance here is the presentation of originally simple monodic tunes as part songs and the secular and sacred contrafactions.
Published: 19th January 2010