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: Michael Walter)

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: Richard Parncutt)

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