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Doctores, Mores, Lust und Kuertzweyl. Musik im Bad am Beginn der Frühen Neuzeit?

  • Stefan Gasch
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Bade- und Kurmusik
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Abstract

The well-known dictum of (vocal / instrumental) music-making in the bath contradicts the surviving sources, at least in the 16th century. These have not yet been systematically analysed regarding the various bathing situations (inside / outside) or the question of the connection between music-making practice and social status of the bathers and the resulting implications. The article therefore first raises the question of instrumental music-making practice in the bath based on pictorial evidence. Based on the lack of evidence for explicit bathing songs, the few song documents from a courtly environment that thematise bathing are then presented. It is not until around 1530 that an explicit literary-musical examination of the bathing tradition becomes tangible in a song text that thematises the typical actions in the bath (doctores, mores, kurtzweyl). The few songs from the 1570s, on the other hand, belong to the group of ‘Bauernsatiren’, which primarily address the offensive behaviour of bathing women. However, due to the complexity of the polyphonic setting, none of these songs are likely to have been sung by bathers, but at best by professional musicians, such as in court chapels. Finally, an attempt is made to place these songs in the wider context of courtly spa architecture.

Abstract

The well-known dictum of (vocal / instrumental) music-making in the bath contradicts the surviving sources, at least in the 16th century. These have not yet been systematically analysed regarding the various bathing situations (inside / outside) or the question of the connection between music-making practice and social status of the bathers and the resulting implications. The article therefore first raises the question of instrumental music-making practice in the bath based on pictorial evidence. Based on the lack of evidence for explicit bathing songs, the few song documents from a courtly environment that thematise bathing are then presented. It is not until around 1530 that an explicit literary-musical examination of the bathing tradition becomes tangible in a song text that thematises the typical actions in the bath (doctores, mores, kurtzweyl). The few songs from the 1570s, on the other hand, belong to the group of ‘Bauernsatiren’, which primarily address the offensive behaviour of bathing women. However, due to the complexity of the polyphonic setting, none of these songs are likely to have been sung by bathers, but at best by professional musicians, such as in court chapels. Finally, an attempt is made to place these songs in the wider context of courtly spa architecture.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Vorwort V
  3. Inhaltsverzeichnis VII
  4. Musicobalneologische Streiflichter. Eine Einführung IX
  5. I. Allegorien und Assoziationen
  6. Das Bad als Metapher und die Konfiguration Singen im Bad bei Walther von der Vogelweide, Marcabru, Neidhart und Konrad von Würzburg 1
  7. Von Singbad und Badzech. Das Bad und der Meistergesang 33
  8. Musik und Bad an den Grenzen bildlicher Darstellbarkeit. Betrachtungen anhand von Holzschnitten und Gemälden des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts 61
  9. Venus im Bad 91
  10. II. Singen und Klingen
  11. Singen im Bade 137
  12. Klang-, Heilungs- und Heilsraum Pfeffersbad im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert 165
  13. Doctores, Mores, Lust und Kuertzweyl. Musik im Bad am Beginn der Frühen Neuzeit? 185
  14. aes thermarum: eine Bestandsaufnahme Musikinstrumente des alten Rom im Spiegel des Humanismus 215
  15. „Wollt ihr nit baden?“ Hintergründe einer Vorszene: Zum ersten Bild in Carl Orffs Die Bernauerin 239
  16. III. Kulturen und Traditionen
  17. Music, Healing and Sickness in Spas and Fashionable Georgian Society 267
  18. Jüdische Kurgäste und Kurkapellen in der Frühen Neuzeit 283
  19. Die Rolle von Musik, Tanz und Musizierenden in der Konstruktion des teutschen Kurortes als Heterotopie im langen 18. Jahrhundert 297
  20. Bad Pyrmont. Der hyllige Born und die Musik 329
  21. IV. Literarische Badbezüge
  22. Badekultur im Spätmittelalter. Balneologische Erotik und Hygiene in Märe, Lied, Brief, Schwank und im Bild 355
  23. Literarische und musikalische Unterhaltung in Jean Pauls Kur-Satire Dr. Katzenbergers Badereise 383
  24. Abbildungsnachweise 397
  25. Personenregister 405
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