Collaborative Composing in the Early Modern Period

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt
• Subject Area: Musicology
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 508410799

The aim of the project is to systematically illuminate the phenomenon of collaborative composing from the late 15th to the early 17th century in various case studies. The focus is on works and groups of works that were created by more than one actor. The question is 1. which different motivations can lie behind the practice of involving several actors in the composition process and sharing the process of composing with each other, 2. which conditions must be given for this to happen, and 3. in which models collaborative composing takes place. The sources considered in the case studies do not exclusively comprise "complete works" or "personal sources", i.e. collections tailored to the repertoire (and performances) of individual composers, but also hitherto often neglected, fragmentary source types and working sources, which in many respects provide a view of production-aesthetic processes for the first time. The aim is to broaden the perspective on early modern compositional processes, but also on established categories such as work and author.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants