Music Iconography: What is it all about? Some remarks and considerations with a selected Bibliography

Authors

  • Antonio Baldassarre RIdIM ; University of Zurich

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/ictus.v9i2.34333

Keywords:

Musical Iconography, Musicology, Beaux Arts, RIdIM

Abstract

A glance at the output of music iconography research of the last twenty years reveals an obvious topical plurality that can easily be misunderstood as a kind of eclecticism. That is why music iconography research still appears – metaphorically speaking – more like a construction site than a garden in the style of André Le Nôtre. The topical and methodological plurality of music iconography is, however, the result of the development of music iconography as a research field and its specific dependence on an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary discourse to generate useful scholarly knowledge. [Originally presented as a lecture during the 18th edition of the ANPPOM annual congress, in Salvador (Bahia - Brazil) - September 2008]

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Author Biography

Antonio Baldassarre, RIdIM ; University of Zurich

Antonio Baldassarre studied German Literature, Musicology and Political Sciences at the University of Zurich (diploma 1993), followed by adjunct teaching positions at the University and the Eidgenssische Technische Hochschule in Zurich as well as the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1996 to 1997 he was Visiting Scholar at the Research Center for Music Iconography at CUNY. After that he served as Research Assistant at the Department for Musicology at Zurich University where he completed his dissertation in 2003 (thesis on the history of the string quartet 1830-1870, print upcoming). Since 2003 he is adjunct lecturer in Zurich and Basel and managing director of the Kurt Leimer foundation. His research and publications focus on the history of music and music aesthetics of the late 18th through early 20th century, music iconography and sociology.

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Published

2009-02-07

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2008)

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