Material Formations of Music Theory Concepts: Praxeology of Disciplinary Writing Towards the End of the Middle Ages (B11#)

• Subject Area: Musicology
• Term: from 2016 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

The project investigates the material transmission of music theory texts around 1500. The text media, manuscripts and some early prints, will be analysed with regard to their arrangement of content, their material configuration, and the contexts they were used in. Their functions, as they can be reconstructed from the material properties, have to be correlated with their users (authors, teachers, learners), in order to analyse the pragmatics of knowledge transfer in this discipline.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Inga Mai Groote, since 7/2016