Source studies 3106-ŹZ-SR

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Term 2023Z:

First half of the semester:

1. Preliminary issues. An introduction to the source theory.
2. The structure of the early manuscript and print. Text and music notation.
3.-7. Music sources of the 13th-17th centuries.

Second half of the semester:

8.-9. Music manuscripts and early prints on the example of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
10.-11. Neue-Bach-Ausgabe as a model of critical edition.
12.-14. Other music sources of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Term 2024Z:

First half of the semester:

1. Preliminary issues. An introduction to the source theory.
2. The structure of the early manuscript and print. Text and music notation.
3.-7. Music sources of the 13th-17th centuries.

Second half of the semester:

Type of course

elective courses

Mode

Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

The course aims to familiarize students with the basic knowledge of music sources and ways to use this knowledge when preparing critical music editions. Prerequisites: musicological knowledge at the undergraduate level (no BA in musicology is required), the ability to apply it to a critical evaluation of the text and musical notation.

Course coordinators

Tomasz Górny
Agnieszka Leszczyńska

Assessment criteria

Pass conditions: active participation in classes and own description of a selected source, agreed with the lecturers.

Bibliography

Term 2023Z:

Józef Szymański, Nauki pomocnicze historii, wyd. nowe, Warszawa 2001 (and other editions).

Paul Géhin (ed.), Jak czytać rękopis średniowieczny, transl. B. Spieralska, Warszawa 2008.

Sources, MS (Stanley Boorman, Introduction), in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, London 2001.

Maria Caraci Vela, Wprowadzenie do krytyki tekstu muzycznego, materiały pod red. Mariny Toffetti, transl. Aleksandra Patalas, Piotr Wilk, Kraków 2002.

Alfred Dürr Alfred, Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I. Kritischer Bericht, in: Johann Sebastian Bach, Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werke, Series 5, Vol. 6.1, VEB–Bärenreiter, Leipzig–Kassel 1989.

Christoph Wolff, Bach’s Personal Copy of the Schübler Chorales, in: idem, Bach: Essays on his Life and Music, Harvard University Press, Cambridge–London 1991, pp. 178–186.

Yo Tomita, Manuscripts, in: The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach, ed. Robin A. Leaver, Routledge, London–New York 2017, pp. 47–88.