Lars Berglund
Associate Professor (Docent)
Department of musicology
Box 633
SE-75337 Uppsala
Visiting adress: Thunbergsvägen 3 H
Tel 018-471 62 74
Research interests
Seventeenth century music history. Music analysis, aesthetics of music, reception history. Swedish modernist art music from the 1950s and 60s. Vocal performance, the human voice, performativity.
Research projects
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Bonifazio Graziani and the music in the circles of Roman Jesuits in the mid-seventeenth century (financed by the Swedish Research Council).
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"The phenomenology of the voice"; theoretical studies i the analysis and interpretation of vocal performances.
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"Radicals and traditionalists in Swedish art music after the war"; studies in the aesthetics and compositional strategies of Jan Carlstedt and members of his generation.
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The Düben Collection Database Catalogue Project (financed by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and the Swedish Research Council).
Selected publications - forthcoming:
“Angels or Sirens? Questions of reception and performativity in Roman church music around 1650”, in: Performativity and performance in baroque art, ed. Peter Gillgren, Mårten Snickare (Ashgate, forthcoming in 2011)
Published:
Bonifazio Graziani: Motets for Two to Six voices Opus 1, ed. Lars Berglund (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era; 173, A-R Editions, Middleton, Wisconsin, 2011)
"Marvels of the Holy City. On the use of Roman church music at Lutheran courts in the mid-seventeenth century", Commonplace Culture in Western europe in the Early Modern Period II: Consolidation of God-given Power (=Groningen Studies in Cultural Change; 40) ed. Kathryn Banks, Philiep Bossier (Peeters: Leuven et al, 2011)
“The Roman Connection. Dissemination and reception of Roman music in the North”, in: The Dissemination of Music in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Celebrating the Düben Collection. Proceedings from the International Conference at Uppsala University 2006 (Bern et al, 2010), p. 193-218
"Traditionalister och radikala i efterkrigstidstidens svenska musikliv
kring Jan Carlstedt och hans stråkkvartett nr 2", STM-Online 12 (2009)
”De musica pathetica. Diskussionen om musik och affekt i Athanasius Kirchers Musurgia universalis”, in: Själens uttryck. Passion, dygd och andakt – samspel mellan själ och kropp i 1600-talets människosyn, , red. Peter Gillgren, Barockakademiens skriftserie; 1 (Stockholm, 2008) e-publication
"Monteverdi seglade operan i hamn", Understreckare i Svenska Dagbladet 26/07 2008
"Amor in Deum. Representationen av eros i Christian Geists gudstjänstmusik för Karl XI:s hov", Barock : historia - litteratur - konst (Warszawa, 2007), s. 127–141
”Om Konsten att förstå en mycket gammal opera: Claudio Monteverdis Orfeo”, in: Operavärldar från Monteverdi till Gershwin. Tjugo uppsatser under redaktion av Torsten Pettersson, ed. Torsten Pettersson (Stockholm, 2006), pp. 29–48
”Femte Stråkkvartetten”, in: Ett sekel med Dag Wirén, ed. Martin Tegen (Stockholm, 2005), pp. 260–82
”The Concerto Principle in Kaspar Förster’s Psalm Settings: Confitebor tibi Domine in C”, in: Musica Baltica: Im Umkreis des Wandels von den cori spezzati zum konzertierenden Stil, ed. Danuta Popinigis (Gdansk, 2004), pp. 32–44
”The Aria, the Stylus Melismaticus and the Holy Communion. Devotional Music from Northern Courts in the Late Seventeenth Century”, in: The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals: Genre and Ritual, red. Eyolf Østrem, Mette Birkedal Bruun Nils Holger Petersen, och Jens Fleischer (Köpenhamn, 2005), pp. 251–70
”Sorge-Musique för en död drottning. Om musiken vid Ulrika Eleonoras begravning i Riddarholmskyrkan 1693”, in: Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning 86 (2004), pp. 27–48 ACCESS
“Christian Geist’s ‘Vide, pater mi, dolores’ and his application for the Johanneumskantorat in Hamburg”, in: Schütz-Jahrbuch 24 (2002), pp. 7–29
Studier i Christian Geists vokalmusik (diss. Uppsala, 2002) ENGLISH SUMMARY
”Music and the Wor(l)d – Musicology and Mankind. How we Got Out of Analyses and How to Get Back In”, in: Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning 83 (2001), pp. 13–26; co-written with Eyolf Østrem - ACCESS
”On Style and Tradition in the Sonatas by Kaspar Förster”, in: Polish-Swedish Cultural Relations During the Vasa Dynasty, ed. Tadeusz Maciejewski, (Warszawa, 1996), pp. 89–94