Introduction
Katelijne Schiltz and Franziska Weigert, Sleep, Music and Sleep Music: Some Observations
Sleep Music on Stage
Hanna Walsdorf and Elizabeth Dobbin, Magical Sleep in Lully’s tragédie lyrique: The Case of Atys (1676)
Anna Ricke, »O Mysterious Night! Thou Art Not Silent; Many Tongues Hast Thou!« – Sleepless Nights and Ghost Lullabies in Gothic Plays c. 1800
Gregor Herzfeld, Dreams, Visions, and Sleeplessness in the Music of John Adams
Patrick Mertens, Traumballette im Musical. Untersuchungen zu den Traum-/Albtraumszenen in Oklahoma! (1943) und Mamma Mia! (1999)
Listening to Sleep Music
Miriam Akkermann and Uǧur Can Akkaya, From Lullaby to Sleep Music – An analytical approach to music and its effect on sleep
Camila Bruder and Pauline Larrouy-Maestri, The Unique Vocal Quality of Lullabies
Raphael Börger, Rauschen-Hören als Schlafmittel
Lullabies
Karen Leistra-Jones, Brahms’s Wiegenlied as Functional Music: Lullabies and Mothering in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Florian Besthorn, »Traumverloren«. Zur Ambiguität der Wiegenlieder Jörg Widmanns und deren intertextuelle Bezüge
Franziska Weigert, »Die Nacht schleicht durchs Ghetto schwarz und stumm«: Die Wiegenlieder von Ilse Weber (1903–1944)
Maria Behrendt, »Hear this song and remember« – Wiegenlied, Identität und Erinnerung in den Animationsfilmen Anastasia und Prince of Egypt
About the editors:
Katelijne Schiltz is Head of the Musicology Department at the University of Regensburg. She studied Musicology at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Early Vocal Music at the Conservatory of Tilburg (the Netherlands). Her research focuses on Early Music, especially on music and riddles, performance practice, music in Cinquecento Venice, organ sermons and the reception of Early Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Franziska Weigert wrote her doctoral thesis on German lullabies in the long nineteenth century at the University of Regensburg, where she also taught and worked as research associate. She is conducting a transnational and interdisciplinary study on contemporary lullaby singing practices at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. Since 2026, she has been a postdoctoral researcher on the DFG-AHRC project Digital Exploration of Lute Tablature Agencies (DELTA), based at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and Oxford University.
