About

Jacqueline Waeber is an Associate Professor of Music at Duke University, holding this position since 2008 within the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on melodrama and related genres, from opera to film, theatrical practices, and visual cultures. She has a particular interest in French musical aesthetics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the relationship between music and the philosophy of the arts, as well as the 'chanson populaire'. Her scholarly work explores poetic recitation in Central Europe from 1760 to 1820, and she has contributed to the understanding of theatrical and musical practices in historical contexts. Waeber has published books and articles on these topics, including a recent publication titled 'Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820'.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Art
• Geography
• Visual arts
• Art history
• Mathematics
• Law
• Philosophy
• World Wide Web
• Linguistics
• Library science

Selected publications

• Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820

  2025-04-17

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• Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820

  2025-01-01

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  Shows how poetic recitation and the interweaving of music and poetry contributed to the advent of a German identity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe. The art of reciting a text out loud, known as Vortragskunst, be it in a private circle or in a concert hall, originated in German-speaking countries in the 1760s, and by the nineteenth century had become a well-established practice subjected to an artistic blossoming unparalleled in the rest of Europe. In this book Jacqueline Waeber explains and examines how and why this happened, focusing on the origins of poetic recitation and its development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period essential to the development of modern German literature and theatre, bookended by the two main figures who contributed to the theoretical and aesthetical tenets of poetic recitation, the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). Poetic recitation quickly gained attraction for the Lied and the musical melodrama, both musical genres that were driven by a search for new declamatory styles. As a result, poetic recitation became increasingly 'musicalized' by the frequent addition of a musical accompaniment. As the book shows, this intertwining of music and poetry made a huge contribution to the advent of German identity through the reappraisal of its language.

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• Philon und Theone Georg Anton Benda (1722–1795), ed. Austin Glatthorn Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2020 pp. xxiv + 166, ISBN 978 1 9872 0456 8

  Eighteenth Century Music · 2024-02-06

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• Preface

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• Index

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• National Traditions (outside Italy)

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• Society, Institutions, and Production

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• The Italian Foundations

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• Chronology

  2022-12-08

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• Further Reading

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Frequent coauthors

• Simon Trezise

  Trinity College Dublin

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• Peter Bennett

  Ministry for Primary Industries

  2 shared

• Charlotte Kaufman

  1 shared

• Alice V. Clark

  1 shared

• Fabrice Fitch

  Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

  1 shared

• Luc Charles-Dominique

  1 shared

• Lawrence Earp

  1 shared

• Olivia Bloechl

  1 shared