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Name:

Dr. Christian Leitmeir

Position:

Lecturer in Music
Director of Graduate Studies

Email:

Location:

School of Music

Phone:

+44 (0) 1248 383258

Background

Christian Thomas Leitmeir (born 1974 in Donauwörth, Germany) joined the School of Music at Bangor as Lecturer in February 2007. Having read Musicology, Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Theology at the University of Munich, he completed his his MMus degree in Musicology at King’s College London (1999) and in 2003 obtained his doctorate from the Karl-Eberhards-Universität Tübingen. His thesis, a monograph on the Flemish composer Jacobus de Kerle, won the Dissertation Award of the University. Between 2003 and 2006 he held a Long-Term Frances A. Yates Research Fellowship at the Warburg Institute (School of Advanced Studies, University of London) and taught as external tutor at several colleges in Oxford.
A specialist in medieval music theory, 16th-century sacred music and musical palaeography, he has wide-ranging interests in other periods of music history as well as other subject areas, which feeds into interdisciplinary research with colleagues from Theology and Art History.
He is serving as Editor of Musik in Bayern, yearbook of Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte, and Treasurer to the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Alamire Foundation.

Teaching

Undergraduate

First Year:
The Study of Music (core module on music history)
Harmony & Counterpoint

Second and Third Year:
Writing about Music (core module for second-year students)
Notation & Editing
Editing 15th-Century Music
The Age of Classical Polyphony: Palestrina and Lassus (2006‒/7)
The Renaissance Madrigal (2009/10)
The Solo Concerto in the Classical and Romantic Periods (2007/8, 2009/10)
The Early Romantics (2008/9)
Requiem: Music for the Dead, 800 to present (2008/9)

Postgraduate:

Current Musicology (MA core module)
MA modules on historical musicology, early music, editorial philology, analysis
Current research postgraduates under Christian Leitmeir’s supervision work on late-medieval music theory, counterpoint and compositional techniques in the works of Johannes Ockeghem, psalm settings by Orlando di Lasso and vocality in the instrumental music of Max Bruch.
Research Training for Postgraduates:
Language Skills for Musicologists (‘German for Musicologists’ at the Institute of Musical Research (2007); RMA Study Day 2009)
German Palaeography (London Palaeography Summer School 2006)

Responsibilities

Director of Graduate Studies (School of Music)
Library Representative (School of Music)
Convener of Music Seminar Series
Deputy Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies and Convener of its Medieval Seminar Series (with Dr Raluca Radulescu, Director)

Research Interests

General Perspectives:

  • Sacred Music (in the context of liturgy, devotion and theology)
  • Musical Notation (especially in relation to theory, composition and performance)
  • Interplay of music, words and images

Periods:

  • Music Theory in the Middle Ages
  • 16th-Century Polyphony in Continental Europe
  • Viennese Classicism (Mozart and contemporaries)
  • Music between Late-Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism (especially Richard Strauss and his contemporaries)
  • Music Historiography and Early-Music Scholarship in the 19th and 20th centuries

Membership in Research Clusters at Bangor

Main Publications

Books

Editions

  • Johannes Stadlmayr, Apparatus musicus (Innsbruck 1654),
    online edition (2004) in commission of the Institut für Tiroler Musikforschung by Thomas Engel (transcription) and Christian Thomas Leitmeir (reconstruction of missing parts)
  • Jacobus de Kerle, Kritische Edition sämtlicher Werke, 6 vols, Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Baden-Württemberg (Munich, 2010-), forthcoming.

Major Articles

Medieval Music

  • ‘Klang, Zeichen, Schrift. Zwei Fallstudien zur schriftlichen Vermittlung und Überlieferung von Musik im Mittelalter und der frühen Neuzeit’, ‘Übertragungen’: Formen und Konzepte von Reproduktion in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Kongreßbericht der Nachwuchsgruppe ‘Stimme-Zeichen-Schrift’, Göttingen 2004, Trends in Medieval Philology, edited by Albrecht Hausmann et al. (New York, 2005), 43-76.
  • ‘Types and Transmission of Musical Examples in Franco’s Ars cantus mensurabilis musicæ’, Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture. Learning from the Learned, edited by Suzannah Clark & Elizabeth Eva Leach (Woodbridge, 2005), 29-44.
  • ‘Arguing with Spirituality against Spirituality. A Cistercian Apologia for Mensural Music by Petrus dictus Palma ociosa (1336)’, Archa Verbi. Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology, 4 (2007), 115-159.

Renaissance Music

  • ‘Catholic Music in the Diocese of Augsburg c.1600: A Reconstructed Tricinium An-thology and its Confessional Implications’, Early Music History,21 (2002), 117-173.
  • ‘Triodia Sacra (1605). Ein rekonstruierter Sammeldruck als Schlüsselquelle für das Musikleben der Spätrenaissance in Süddeutschland’, Musik in Bayern,62 (2/2002), 23-55 (including an edition of the unica contained in this anthology).
  • ‘Vom Adlatus Lassos zum bayerischen Hofkapellmeister. Eine kritische Würdigung der Verdienste Johannes de Fossas (ca. 1540-1603) um die Münchner Hofmusik’, Die Münchner Hofkapelle des 16. Jahrhunderts im europäischen Kontext. Kongreßbericht München 2004, edited by Franz Körndle, Birgit Lodes & Bernhold Schmid (Munich, 2007), 47-102.
  • ‘Tropes and Cantus Firmi in Sixteenth-Century Missae de Beata Virgine’, Die Tonkunst, 4 (1/2009), 8-26.
  • ‘Die Musik am Kölner Dom und am erzbischöflichen Hof im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert: Zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte musikalischer Institutionen’, Das Kölner Erzbistum in der Musikgeschichte des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, edited by Klaus Pietschmann, Beiträge zur rheinischen Musikgeschichte, 172 (Cologne, 2009), 259-309.
  • ‘How many keys are there to a lock? Contextualising a 16th-Century Motet’, Studies in Renaissance Music (1400-1600), edited by M. Jennifer Bloxam & Gioia Filocamo (Brepols, 2009), 441-452.
  • ‘Carl Motzhart (fl. 1591): Ein unbekannter Musik mit bekanntem Namen aus der Zeit Orlando di Lassos’, Musik in Bayern, 72 (2007/8), 245-257, in press.
  • (with Franz Körndle), ‘Probleme der Identifikation katholischer und protestantischer Kirchenmusik im 16. Jahrhundert’, Proceedings of the International Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Weimar 2004, eds Detlef Altenburg et al., in press since 2005.
  • ‘Sixteenth-Century Propers and their Lutheran Appropriations’, Heinrich Isaac and Polyphony for the Proper of the Mass in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by David Burn & Stefan Gasch (Turnhout, 2010), forthcoming.

18th-, 19th- and 20th-Century Music

  • ‘Leopold Mozarts “Versuch einer Anweisung, ein Klavierkonzert zu komponieren“. Zur Entstehung und Funktion der Pasticcio-Konzerte KV 37, 39, 40 und 41’, Mozart Studien,14, ed. Manfred Hermann Schmid (Tutzing, 2007), 1-48.
  • (ed., adn.), ‘Rudolf von Ficker (†): Die Grundlagen der abendländischen Mehrstimmigkeit. Ein wiederaufgefundenes Teilmanuskript aus dem Nachlaß’, Musik in Bayern 67 (2/2004), 11-61.
  • ‘Audiatur et altera pars. Das Kölner Ordinariat Theodor Kroyers (1932-1938), Musikwissenschaft im Rheinland um 1930, edited by Norbert Jers & Klaus Pietschmann, Beiträge zur rheinischen Musikgeschichte, 173 (Cologne, 2010), forthcoming.

Varia

  • ‘Ein dreistimmiges Zeugnis der Ars subtilior aus dem Fundus des Münchner Instituts für Musikwissenschaft’, Festschrift für Bernd Edelmann zum 60. Geburtstag, ed Angelika Rösser (Munich, 2007)

Articles in Dictionaries

  • Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Personenteil, 2nd edition, ed. Ludwig Finscher, 17 vols (Kassel etc., 1999-2007):
    Johannes Faber; Johannes de Fossa; Kugelmann, Familie; Vincenzo Ruffo ; Johannes Stomius; Rupert Unterholzer; Otto Ursprung; Thomas von Wallingford; Johann Weinmann; Johann Zanger
  • Lexikon der Musik der Renaissance, eds Elisabeth Schmierer, Handbuch der Musik in der Renaissance, vol. 7 (Laaber, 2010), in print:
    Hugenottenpsalter; Kirchenlied; Psalmvertonungen; Te Deum; Königsberg
    Martin Bucer; Johannes Bugenhagen; Eberhard von Cersne; Friedrich Dedekind; Jacobus de Kerle; Lucas Lossius; Jacob Meiland; Thomas Müntzer; Savonarola; Ulrich Zwingli

Reviews

in Musik in Bayern, Early Music, Philomusica on-line, Plainsong & Medieval Music