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Author: Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild

Book Review: Michael Spitzer. A History of Emotion in Western Music. A Thousand Years from Chant to Pop (OUP 2020)

The so-called ‘emotional turn’, which has shaped historical disciplines since around the year 2000, has so far had surprisingly little impact on musicology and other music studies. Talking about emotions, especially in music-historical contexts, is still a bold endeavour – attempts are often met with one version or another of...

Visualizing GOING VIRAL: reflections on our logo

The core themes of GOING VIRAL are ephemeral phenomena: music and emotions, in the specific situation of health crises. In our research, we are constantly faced with the difficulty of putting these ephemeral phenomena into words – and binding them in the media of language and writing. How we can...

Man playing saxophon and sitting in the open window on the first floor.

“the world-creating properties of music”: Viennese Balcony Concerts, Zeitgeschichte and Emotions as Musicological Method

On March 15, 2020, the day before the start of the first official covid-19 lockdown in Vienna, I took an evening stroll through the already quite empty streets of the urban third district. Almost back home, I passed an open window on the mezzanine floor of a Jugendstil House where...

Man playing saxophon and sitting in the open window on the first floor.

“the world-creating properties of music”: Wiener Balkon-Konzerte, Zeitgeschichte und Emotionalität als musikwissenschaftliche Methode

Am 15. März 2020, einen Tag vor dem offiziellen Beginn des ersten Corona-bedingten Lockdown in Wien, war ich auf einem abendlichen Spaziergang durch den 3. Gemeindebezirk an einem offenen Fenster im Hochparterre vorbeigekommen, in dem eine junge Frau auf der Gitarre spielte und sang. Es schien eine entspannte Stimmung in...

GOING VIRAL

This blog is designed to be the online platform for the ERC Starting Grant Project “Going Viral. Music and Emotions during Pandemics (1679-1919)” (PI Prof. Dr. Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild). The project will start 1 September 2022 and will go on for 5 years. The host institution is the University of...