Inaugural Volume Published in New Southampton-Würzburg Series
The first book in a new multi-volume series - Structura et Experientia Musicae: Southampton-Würzburg Studies in Eighteenth-Century Musical Culture - has just been published by the Are Musik Verlag of Mainz, Germany.
The series's general editors include Music Lecturer Dr Thomas Irvine and Visiting Research Fellow Dr Wiebke Thormählen. 'Apolls musikalische Reisen. Zum Verhältnis von System, Text und Narration in Johann Nicolaus Forkels Allgemeiner Geschichte der Musik (1788–1801)' (Apollo's Musical Journey: On the Relation of System, Text and Narration in Johann Nicolaus Forkel's General History of Music.) is by Dr Oliver Wiener of the University of Würzburg, also a general editor.
It is the first monograph on the the writings and thought of the influential eighteenth-century music historian.