Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770-1860: Questioning Canons

by Randi Margrete Selvik (Editor), Svein Gladsø (Editor), Annabella Skagen (Editor)

Overview

Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860: Questioning Canons reveals how various cultural processes have influenced what has been included, and what has been marginalised from canons of European music, dance, and theatre around the turn of the nineteenth century and the following decades.

This collection of essays includes discussion of the piano repertory for young ladies in England; canonisation of the French minuet; marginalisation of the popular German dramatist Kotzebue from the dramatic canon; dance repertory and social life in Christiania (Oslo); informal cultural activities in Trondheim; repertory of Norwegian musical clocks; female itinerant performers in the Nordic sphere; preconditions, dissemination, and popularity of equestrian drama; marginalisation and amateur staging of a Singspiel by the renowned Danish playwright Oehlenschläger, also with perspectives on the music and its composers; and the perceived relevance of Henrik Ibsen’s staged theatre repertory and early dramas.

By questioning established notions about canon, marginalisation, and relevance within the performing arts in the period 1770–1860, this book asserts itself as an intriguing text both to the culturally interested public and to scholars and students of musicology, dance research, and theatre studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367647254
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2022
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Randi Margrete Selvik is Professor Emeritus in musicology at the Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. Her primary research interests include music history from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, with French baroque opera, Nordic Singspiel, and musical dilettantism in Norway as important focus areas.

Svein Gladsø is Professor Emeritus in theatre studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. His main research interests include theatre history, dramaturgy, theatre politics, and theatre theory. He has been chair of the Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars and the editor of Nordic Theatre Studies.

Annabella Skagen is Senior Curator at Ringve Music Museum in Trondheim, Norway. She holds a PhD in theatre studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim (2015). Her main research interests include theatre and music history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, centring around performative practices within the contexts of politics, sociability, and identity.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations vii

List of contributors ix

Preface xv

1 The (pre)history of canons Svein Gladsø 1

2 Meeting the masters: Repertory choices for young ladies Penelope Cave 22

3 Canonisation of the danced minuet over centuries Dóra Kiss 43

4 On the other side of the canon: August von Kotzebue as a popular playwright and controversial public persona Meike Wagner 66

5 Traces of dance and social life: A dance book and its context Elizabeth Svarstad 87

6 Outside canon: Anonymous music and informal cultural activities in Trondheim around 1800 Eva Hov 102

7 A private playlist? Repertory in Norwegian eighteenth-century musical clocks Mats Krouthén 128

8 Itinerant female performers in the Nordic sphere 1760-1774: Traceability and visibility Anne Margrete Fiskvik 156

9 The hybrid child: The preconditions, dissemination, and enduring popularity of equestrian drama Ellen Karoline Gjervan 175

10 Vittorio Alfieri's tramelogedia Abéle: A physiognomic reading of a marginalised play by a canonical author Maria-Christina Mur 188

11 Oehlenschläger's Freyas Altar: A rejected Singsplel performed Annabella Skagen 206

12 Forgotten music: Early Norwegian composers and Oehlenschläger's Freyas Altar Randi Margrete Selvik 227

13 Questioning the canons of Ibsen's theatre: Re-searching the relevance of Ibsen's theatre repertory, 1852-1862 Jon Nygaard 251

General index 271

Person index 278