Focus Areas

In the first three semesters (one-and-a-half years) of the BA program, students study the foundations of five areas of musicology called focus areas (Schwerpunkte). From the 4^th to the 6^th semester, students focus on two areas of their choice; during the MA, one. At all stages, students select additional courses from other focus areas of musicology and from outside of musicology.

(Contact: Kendra Stepputat)

Study of performance in social and cultural contexts, using ethnographic, historical, analytical (quantitative + qualitative), critical-theoretical methods and instruments of interpretation.

(Contact: Franz Krieger)

History of Jazz and popular music, popular culture in different social and political contexts, transcription and analysis of musical scores.

(Contact NN)

Religious music, medieval music, opera, film, music of the 20^th and 21^st centuries, interpretation and analysis of musical scores, social history.

(Contact: Andreas Dorschel)

Aesthetics of music production and reception, modernity, multimodal forms, sociology of European art music, gender studies, approaches and methods in music aesthetics and sociology.

(Contact NN)

Empirical methods, psychology (cognition, emotion, pitch, rhythm, timbre, development, evolution), acoustics (rooms, electronics, signal processing, composition).