Department of Musicology

Next to the traditional focus on the history of music of the medieval ages, the European art music of the modern times and new music, we are gaining perspectives in the areas of historic ethno-musicology and practice-oriented research. Our starting point is the awareness of a cultural equivalence of all types of music – and of the necessity of a pluralistic understanding of them as texts, acts and contexts.

 

Through building an intensive network with the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in the context of the Forschungs- und Lehrzentrum Musik (FZM), with the courses and departments of the university and with the cultural live in Freiburg, the students, researchers and teachers are acting in an intra- and transdisciplinary space that enables the multi-perspective exploitation of our common interests.

The FZM expands the possibilities, for example, in the areas of historical music theory, practice-oriented research or music pedagogy, etc. In the joint research colloquium of the University of Music and the Department of Musicology, the broad spectrum can be experienced anew semester after semester. Research results are manifested, among other things, in the series Voces – Freiburger Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft.