Martin Tröndle is the WÜRTH Chair of Cultural Production at Zeppelin University, Germany, and a principal investigator of ECR-Experimental Concert Research, a project that investigates aesthetic experience in the classical concert. He is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy.

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Concert Studies

I. The Concert as an Event

1. A Concert Theory

2. Music as Text, Music as Performance

3. 4'33"

The Concert as a Performative Moment

4. The Discovery of Listening in the Concert

5. Between Formalization and Exaggeration: An Ethnomusicological Perspective

6. Concert Formats: Liturgy-Ritual-Power?

II. Programs, Formats, and Media

7. From Program Leaflets to Listening Apps: A Brief History of Guided Listening

8. Space, Light, Proximity: Aspects of Historical Performance Practice

9. Preludes, Fantasias, and Collages: Improvisation, a Forgotten Art in the Classical Concert

10. Concert Design: Form Follows Function

11. Musical Curator and Concert Director

12. The Yellow Lounge Reinvents the Concert Forum

13. Strategies for the Production of Presence

III. Space-Sound-Instruments

14. Noise and Sound: The Historicity and Sociability of the Senses

15. From Sound to Noise: The History of Hearing in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

16. The Soundscape of Vienna: Pictorial Essay

17. The Cultural Dimensions of Atmospheres: Sociological Observations of the resonanzraumin Hamburg

18. A Sociological Reflection on the Concert Venue

19. Cinema for the Ears: Technical Developments in Acoustics and Loudspeaker Systems

20. Digital Encore: Virtualization, Live Coding, and New Interfaces

IV. The Audience and the Musicians

21. Between Audience Decline and Audience Development:

Perspectives on the Professional Musician, Music Education, and Cultural Policy

22. Musical, Social, and Moral Dilemmas: Investigating Audience Motivations to Attend Concerts

23. Studying Music . . . And Then What?

24. "Playing Concerts Is Not Enough": On the Identity of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

25. Women in Music Culture: A History of (Non-)Participation?

26. The Konzerthaus Berlin: A Concert Hall in Transition

27. Audience Development and Engagement

V. Economy and Policy

28. The Influence of Economic Variables in the Concert Industry

29. Roll Over Beethoven . . .: Notes on Concerts under Conditions of the Culture Industry

30. The Dematerialization of Music: How Streaming Technology Impacts Music Production and Consumption

31. The "New Classic"

32. Actors in the Classical Music Business: A Media Discourse Analysis

VI. Concert Research

33. A Manifesto of Concert Culture

34. Concerto21: A Didactic Introduction for Concert Development

35. The Researching Orchestra: Innovative Collaborations between Symphonic Orchestras and Knowledge Institutions

36. The Classical Concert as an Object of Empirical Aesthetics

Index