Healing Cecilia. Sacred Music and People with Disabilities in Hospitals of the German- and Italian-Speaking Areas (16th–18th Centuries)
Dr. David Merlin
Medieval and early modern hospitals were multifunctional institutions that cared for people with chronic or temporary disabilities: the sick, the elderly, and those with sensory, physical, or cognitive impairments. Many of these institutions remained active until the 19th or even the 20th century. Despite the increasing medicalization over time, the prevailing belief was that healing came primarily from Christus medicus through frequent ...
Dance/Music digital
PD Dr. Vera Grund (Principal Investigator together with Dr. Henner Drewes and Prof. Dr. Andreas Münzmay)
The aim of the project is to develop an editing method with which the information from diverse dance sources – iconographic documents, musical scores, drama and rhetoric schools, archive documents – can be digitally linked through a comprehensive multimodal structural model. With regard to dance, four-dimensional movement analyses (including spatial dimensions and temporal progression), visualizations and analyses of dance poses, ...
Dance/Music digital
PD Dr. Vera Grund (Principal Investigator together with Dr. Henner Drewes and Prof. Dr. Andreas Münzmay)
The aim of the project is to develop an editing method with which the information from diverse dance sources – iconographic documents, musical scores, drama and rhetoric schools, archive documents – can be digitally linked through a comprehensive multimodal structural model. With regard to dance, four-dimensional movement analyses (including spatial dimensions and temporal progression), visualizations and analyses of dance poses, ...
Transnational Nineteenth-Century Compositional Strategies. The 'school' of Salieri
Dr. Elisa Novara
A comparative analysis of early nineteenth-century compositional strategies reveals certain constants that suggest there must have been a 'European' compositional koiné in the teaching of music – contrary to the traditional notion of different national styles. The research project aims to highlight such constants in the history of composition.
The present investigation begins with a reconstruction of the teaching methods employed by ...
