Dieter de la Motte ( German: Diether de la Motte ; March 30, 1928, Bonn - May 15, 2010, Berlin ) - German musicologist, teacher, composer. The author of the most popular in Germany ("standard") textbooks of harmony , polyphony and musical form.
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In 1950 he graduated from the Detmold Higher School of Music in composition and theory of music (Wilhelm Mahler), piano and choral conducting (Kurt Thomas). In 1962–82 he taught music theory and composition at the Higher School of Music (Conservatory) of Hamburg (since 1964), in 1982–88 he was a professor at the Higher School of Music and Theater in Hanover , in 1988–96 he was a teacher of musical and theoretical disciplines, professor at the Academy of Music in Vienna . Among the students are Manfred Trojan (Trojahn), Clemens Kün (Kühn), Franz Zaunshchirm (Zaunschirm), Detlef Glanert (Glanert), Nikolaus Schapfl (Schapfl). Since 1996 he lived in Berlin.
De la Motte is the author of popular textbooks on harmony (Harmonielehre, 1976; 17th edition was published in 2014), polyphony (Kontrapunkt, 1981; 9th edition 2014) and musical form (Musik Formen, 1999). In the center of the textbook of harmony is harmonic (major-minor) tonality in Western European music, ranging from JS Bach to Debussy [2] . The later and earlier stages of the evolution of harmony are not considered in detail. In the doctrine of harmony, he developed the functional theory of Riemann , the latest “dialect” of which he inherited from his teacher Wilhelm Mahler [3] .
The polyphonic textbook covers music from Perotin to Lutoslavsky ; the lion's share of the book (more than 90 pages, in the words of de la Mott, “Hauptkapitel”) is occupied by the chapter on Josquin Depres . De la Mott also dealt with the problem of the musical embodiment of the text ( German: Vertonung ) over the course of 800 years of history (mainly Western European) music (Gedichte sind Musik, 2002).
Author of compositions in various musical genres (operas, orchestral and chamber music, works for choir, piano, organ).
The wife of Dieter da la Mott is the famous German musicologist Helga de la Mott-Haber (b. 1938).
Proceedings (selection)
- Harmonielehre. Ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch. München, 1976; 17te Aufl. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2014. 290 S. [4]
- Kontrapunkt. Ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch. Kassel, Basel: Bärenreiter, 1981; 9te Aufl., 2014.375 S.
- Melodie Ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch. München, Kassel: dtv, 1993.
- Alles ist Zahl: Formen pythagoreischen Denkens in der Musik // Musik befragt, Musik vermittelt. Augsburg: Wißner 1996, S.153-163.
- Musik Formen: Phantasie, Einfall, Originalität. Augsburg: Wißner, 1999. ISBN 3-89639-160-7 .
- Wege zum Komponieren. Ermutigung und Hilfestellung. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2001. ISBN 3-7618-1290-6
- Zartbitter: Sprachkompositionen, Gedichte, Texte für Lieder, Chöre, Hörtheater und Musiktheater. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2001.
- Gedichte sind Musik. Musikalische Analyse von Gedichten aus 800 Jahren. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2002.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 121221776 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Mein Mut ging nicht über Debussy hinaus (Harmonielehre. Kassel, 2014, S.10). Harmony in the music of Russian composers (and Slavs in general) is not considered in the textbook.
- ↑ De la Mott was directly influenced by Mahler's book Beitrag zur durmolltonalen Harmonielehre (München und Leipzig, 1931; many reprints).
- ↑ Starting with the 1992 edition, all subsequent reprints contain a four-page afterword (without changing the main text), in which de la Mott corrects the erroneous interpretation of “Alpine” folk music.