Martin Vogel (musicologist)

Martin Vogel (born March 23, 1923 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † April 1, 2007 in Bonn ) was a German university professor of musicology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn.

Life

Martin Vogel was the son of the businessman Walter Vogel and his wife Margarete geb. Maess. After serving in the war and imprisonment, he began studying musicology in Bonn. In 1954 he received his doctorate with the topic The Number Seven in speculative music theory , in 1959 he completed his habilitation with a paper on The Enharmonics of the Greeks . Since 1967 he taught as a professor for systematic musicology in Bonn. Vogel had been married to Hannelore Schlemmer since 1960.

One focus of his work in research and teaching was dealing with the fundamentals of musical harmony . The Vogelsche tone lattice complements the dual system of Arthur von Oettingen to the natural seventh and proposes a formula based on a weighted prime factorization for the quantitative assessment of Akkordkonsonanzen ago. He designed and built enharmonic horns, tubas and trumpets as well as guitars in pure tuning. Vogel had a two- manual harpsichord built, enharmonically tunable using the ray principle , as well as a 72-note harmonium with four manuals, and developed an automatic circuit through which the "correct" fifths , thirds and sevenths are automatically set when the keys are lowered .

Another focus of his research was the origin of music. Based on the Greek Enharmonics with its quarter tones and early polyphony , Vogel came to the realization through the oldest rock carvings in Yemen and Eritrea that decisive early cultural achievements such as metalworking , long-distance trade , animal husbandry and music were closely related to the domestication of the donkey as the earliest riding and pack animal of man. In this context, Vogel also saw the emergence of monotheistic cults with a donkey god who was worshiped under various names such as Seth , Iao, Yahweh , Amun .

Vogel gained important information from the words and names. With an abundance of etymological excursions, he gives an example of linguistic paleontology and opened a scientific discussion that transcends disciplinary boundaries about the dissemination of cultural achievements through migration from Africa to Europe . Numerous plays written by him, including opera libretti, show Vogel's interest in music theater .

Fonts

• The number seven in speculative music theory , phil. Diss. Bonn 1955
• The intonation of the brass section. New ways in brass instrument making , Düsseldorf 1961
• The Tristan Chord and the Crisis of Modern Harmony , Düsseldorf 1962
• The Enharmonics of the Greeks, Part 1: Tone System and Notation; Part 2: The origin of the Enharmonik , Düsseldorf 1963
• Apollonian and Dionysian. Story of an ingenious error , Regensburg 1966
• The future of music , Düsseldorf 1968
• Onos Lyras. The donkey with the lyre , Düsseldorf 1973
• The doctrine of tone relationships , Bonn 1976
• Chiron, the Centaur with the Kithara , Bonn 1978
• Musiktheater I: The theater crisis and overcoming it , Bonn 1980
• Musiktheater II: Lehrstücke , Bonn 1981
• Instructions for harmonic analysis and pure intonation , Bonn 1984
• Schönberg and the consequences. The wrong ways of new music, part 1: Schönberg , Bonn 1984
• Nietzsche and Wagner. A German reading book , Bonn 1984
• Musiktheater III: Four more teaching pieces , Bonn 1985
• The enharmonic guitar , Bonn 1985
• Musiktheater IV: Mozart's rise and fall , Bonn 1987
• Musiktheater V: Pieces for Salzburg , Bonn 1988
• Music theater VI / VII: The Magic Flute second part. Score and commentary , 2 volumes, Bonn 1990
• The natural septime. Their history and their application , Bonn 1991 (see also the Naturseptime in Wikipedia )
• Musiktheater VIII: The Lehrstücke third part , Bonn 1992
• On the Relations of Tone , Bonn 1993
• Musiktheater IX: Pieces for Weimar , Bonn 1994
• Musiktheater X: Alceste, Wieland's first German opera , Bonn 1995
• Music theater XI: Cagliostro, Goethes Groß-Cophta , Bonn 1995
• Musiktheater XII: Lenz in Weimar , Bonn 1996
• Musiktheater XIII: Abduction near Rheine , Bonn 1996
• Musiktheater XIV: Gozzi writes for the Ricci , Bonn 1996
• Schönberg and the consequences. The wrong ways of new music , part 2: The consequences, Bonn 1997
• Musiktheater XV: A theater evening at Ettersburg Castle , Bonn 1998
• Gorgon. From primal scream to bard chant , Bonn 2000
• Yahweh's rise from donkey god to master of the world , Bonn 2001
• Apollon Onos , Bonn 2003
• The Libyan Cultural Drift , Volume 1, Bonn 2005
• The Libyan Cultural Drift , Volume 2, Bonn 2006
• The Libyan Cultural Drift , Volume 3, Bonn 2007

literature

• Walter Habel: Who is who? Lübeck 1993.
• Advertisement in the FAZ from April 7, 2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Vogel in the catalog of the German National Library