Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860

Randi Margrete Selvik is Professor Emeritus in musicology at the Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. Her primary research interests include music history from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, with French baroque opera, Nordic Singspiel, and musical dilettantism in Norway as important focus areas. Svein Gladsø is Professor Emeritus in theatre studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. His main research interests include theatre history, dramaturgy, theatre politics, and theatre theory. He has been chair of the Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars and the editor of Nordic Theatre Studies. Annabella Skagen is Senior Curator at Ringve Music Museum in Trondheim, Norway. She holds a PhD in theatre studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim (2015). Her main research interests include theatre and music history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, centring around performative practices within the contexts of politics, sociability, and identity.

1. The (Pre)History of Canons (Svein Gladsø); 2. Meeting the Masters: Repertory Choices for Young Ladies (Penelope Cave); 3. Canonisation of the Danced Minuet Over Centuries (Dóra Kiss); 4. On the Other Side of the Canon: August von Kotzebue as Popular Playwright and Controversial Public Persona (Meike Wagner); 5. Traces of Dance and Social Life: A Dance Book and its Context (Elizabeth Svarstad); 6. Outside Canon: Anonymous Music and Informal Cultural Activities in Trondheim around 1800 (Eva Hov); 7. A Private Playlist? Repertory in Norwegian Eighteenth-Century Musical Clocks (Mats Krouthén); 8. Itinerant Female Performers in the Nordic Sphere 1760–1774: Traceability and Visibility (Anne Margrete Fiskvik); 9. The Hybrid Child: The Preconditions, Dissemination and Enduring Popularity of Equestrian Drama (Ellen Karoline Gjervan); 10. Vittorio Alfieri’s tramelogedia Abele: A Physiognomic Reading of a Marginalised Play by a Canonic Author (Maria-Christina Mur); 11. Oehlenschlager’s Freyas Altar: A Rejected Singspiel Performed (Annabella Skagen); 12. Forgotten Music: Early Norwegian Composers and Oehlenschläger's Freyas Altar (Randi Margrete Selvik); 13. Questioning the Canons of Ibsen’s Theatre: Re-searching the Relevance of Ibsen’s Theatre Repertory, 1852–1862 (Jon Nygaard)