Publications by Matthias Lakits
Kaamelott, un livre d'histoire, 2018
A chapter on music, and the perception of medieval music in the French TV series "Kaamelott". It ... more A chapter on music, and the perception of medieval music in the French TV series "Kaamelott". It offers as well a discussion of the symbolic values of music intervals in Medieval and Renaissance thought. Part of "Kaamelott, un livre d'histoire" (éd. Florian Besson, Justine Breton, Paris, Vendémiaire, 2018).
Musique Nationale, 2016
A chapter from "Musique nationale" (éd. Philippe Grosos, Rennes, PUR, 2016) it offers an analysis... more A chapter from "Musique nationale" (éd. Philippe Grosos, Rennes, PUR, 2016) it offers an analysis of the score of Bedrich Smetana's cycle of symphonic poems "My Homeland" ("Ma Vlast") and the composer's relationship to so-called musical nationalism and to musical innovation in the 2nd half of the 19th c. The latter part of the article, written by my co-author B. Moysan, offers perspectives on Czech national music and Czech political philosophy at the end of the 19th c.
Carnets du Forum, 2008
"The style of performance is somewhere between Commedia dell'arte and Walt Disney", said Hungaria... more "The style of performance is somewhere between Commedia dell'arte and Walt Disney", said Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös of his first "Madrigal comedy" for 12-voice choir (1970). This article is a musical analysis of the piece presenting its formal aspects, the treatment of the text, and its relationship to its reference material, Gesualdo's late polyphonic madrigals.
Published in the Belgian journal "Carnets du Forum des Compositeurs" in 2008.
Theses & Essays by Matthias Lakits
This is my Master 1 thesis, presenting a commented transcription of Jean de Bournonville's polyph... more This is my Master 1 thesis, presenting a commented transcription of Jean de Bournonville's polyphonic mass "Dessus le marché d'Arras" (Douai 1619), and a biographic essay of its composer.
This thesis, supervised by Alice Tacaille, was defended in Sep. 2006 at Paris-Sorbonne university.
This is my Master 2 thesis, presenting a new French translation, with critical commentary, of Chr... more This is my Master 2 thesis, presenting a new French translation, with critical commentary, of Christoph Bernhard's mid-17th c. singing treatise "Von der Singekunst oder Manier", and a biographic essay of its composer as well as an examination of his relationship to other German theorists such as Michael Praetorius and Johann Andreas Herbst.
This thesis, supervised by Alice Tacaille, was defended in Sep. 2011 at Paris-Sorbonne University.
Conference papers by Matthias Lakits
A paper presented at the "Musik vor 1600" conference in Weimar, Germany, in 2017.
A paper presented (in German) at Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, on July 15 2016.... more A paper presented (in German) at Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, on July 15 2016. It asks whether music treatises in the 16th c. should be taken as source material for historically informed performance practice (HIP) or viewed as literary texts, subject to stylistic constraints and perhaps a degree of unreliability.
A paper presented (in German) at Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, on June 2 2015. ... more A paper presented (in German) at Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, on June 2 2015. It asks if and how German music theorist's seminal treatise, the Compendiolum musicae (ca. 1550) can be read as a textbook presenting a studies plan for a music class in German Lateinschulen during the latter half of the 16th c.
A paper read during the conference "Théorie de l'analyse", held at the Paris National Conservatoi... more A paper read during the conference "Théorie de l'analyse", held at the Paris National Conservatoire on Feb. 12 2014. It offers an analysis of form and of tonal structures, and their relationship to the process of setting a text to music, in Christoph Bernhard's (1628-1691) Easter cantata "Sie haben meinen Herrn hinweggenommen". It shows the importance of a musical-textual motive, repeated in various keys along the circle of fifths throughout the long recitative middle section.
A paper presented (in German) at Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, on December 13 2... more A paper presented (in German) at Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, on December 13 2013. It asks whether the text of the dedication, and the person of the dedicatee, in Nikolaus Listenius' and Heinrich Faber's treatises (1st half of the 16th c.), should be taken into account when studying these works' musical theoretical content.
A paper presented (in German) at the Forschungskolloquium Musiksoziologie, Centre Marc Bloch, Ber... more A paper presented (in German) at the Forschungskolloquium Musiksoziologie, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, on April 14 2013. In it I examine the relationship between the singer-interpret and the musical text in early 17th. Germany, as defined in the treatises of Michael Praetorius, Christoph Bernhard and their contemporaries. The singer, according to Praetorius, is an orator, carrying a responsibility towards rhetorical intelligibilty at both the textual and musical level.
A paper read at the conference "Improvisation et autorité" at Université François Rabelais, Tours... more A paper read at the conference "Improvisation et autorité" at Université François Rabelais, Tours, Sep 27 2012. It analyses Michael Praetorius' declarations on the singer as orator (Syntagma Musicum, bk. III ch. 9) and confronts them with Christoph Bernhard's (1628-1691) and J. A. Herbst's (1588-1666) perspectives on the role and authority of the composer.
Books by Matthias Lakits
Je mets ici l'introduction et le sommaire de l'ouvrage sur Kaamelott, issu du colloque organisé e... more Je mets ici l'introduction et le sommaire de l'ouvrage sur Kaamelott, issu du colloque organisé en mars 2017 à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, et édité par Vendémiaire en avril 2018.
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Publications by Matthias Lakits
Published in the Belgian journal "Carnets du Forum des Compositeurs" in 2008.
Theses & Essays by Matthias Lakits
This thesis, supervised by Alice Tacaille, was defended in Sep. 2006 at Paris-Sorbonne university.
This thesis, supervised by Alice Tacaille, was defended in Sep. 2011 at Paris-Sorbonne University.
Conference papers by Matthias Lakits
Books by Matthias Lakits
Published in the Belgian journal "Carnets du Forum des Compositeurs" in 2008.
This thesis, supervised by Alice Tacaille, was defended in Sep. 2006 at Paris-Sorbonne university.
This thesis, supervised by Alice Tacaille, was defended in Sep. 2011 at Paris-Sorbonne University.