Niederlaender buxtehude biography

This article investigates the genesis, programming patterns, and transnational impact of the series of early music concerts (Historische Concerte).

The Holler colonies are settlements in European marsh and dyke landscapes created starting in the High Middle Ages through land reclamation by Dutch water.

Now primarily of historic interest, this monograph narrates the development of Franco-Flemish music from Du Fay to Lasso.

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This article investigates the genesis, programming patterns, and transnational impact of the series of early music concerts (Historische Concerte) performed on the occasion of the Viennese International Exhibition of Music and Theater of 1892. Guido Adler was the co-organizer of those concerts, and this article will focus on the impact of this set of twelve historical performances on Adler’s epistemological perspective. Through this case study, I also aim to reassess the intersections between the history of monumental music editing and the historically informed musical practices in the context of international events at the turn of the twentieth century.

Introduction

[1] Music, like all performing arts, is mediated by the temporary dimension between the creation and the performance. In the Western musical tradition, music notation has served not only as a mnemonic tool but also as a long-lasting cultural artefact countering the ephemerality of sonic events. Throughout history, there have been very different methods of graphically encoding sound, and yet we do not know how music sounded before the invention of mechanical recording and reproduction technologies at the end of the nineteenth century. Musicology, a young academic discipline coetaneous to those technological a

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Holler Colonies and the Altes Land: A Vivid Example of the Importance of European Intangible and Tangible Heritage

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Dutch influence is evident in Holler colonies all over Europe, both in the construction of the land and in the built heritage, Alexandra Kruse, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Holler colonies were early European settlements made possible by a distinctive style of land reclamation. (Renes 2005: 27f, Fig. 1) Techniques for cultivating the marsh and peat regions of the Dutch Lowlands (van der Linden 2000: 292) were first developed in the eleventh century. Dutch engineers spread these techniques to many other European countries (Hofmeister 2009; Renes 2005: 27ff) in a process of inner colonization or inner expansion, centrally steered migrations that revitalized abandoned and less populated areas, often closely linked to new parceling (Bartlet 1993). The name Holler colonies points to the people from the Low Countries, often called Holländers, who reclaimed the land; it designates both this type of settlement and its surrounding landscape. This chapter details the characteristics of Holler Colonies and why they are distinctive in Europe.