HUNTING MUSIC - CONTINUITY AND DEVELOPMEN T IN EUROPEAN-HISTORY

The history and development of European hunting music is first discuss ed in terms of the history of horn instruments - beginning with archeo logical findings from the Ice Age (see Fig. 1) up to present times. Ch apter 3 investigates the musical relevance of hunting music in the his tory of European music. The possibilities and forms of stylization are analyzed in reference to numerous works from well known and less famo us composers. Finally the instrument dependent horn melodies determine the structure up to the avant garde works of the 20th century like th e,,Caccia barbara'' from JEZ (comp. Fig. 4). An important aspect, the connection between hunting (music) and cults is discussed in Chapter 4 . Here POSCHL (1993) in particular deals with the present kinds of hun ter's masses - cyclical small compositions for hunting horns - and has edited these in his at present unpublished series ''New Austrian Hunt ing Music'' compositions for mass (see Fig. 5). Chapter 5 examines the hunting music customs of various European countries. In Chapter 6 the significance of hunting signals for semantics/semiotics is clarified. Today hunting signals are the only signals that can only be created a nd transmitted by musical instruments and not via telephone, telefax, or walkie talkie.