Areas of Work
Historical Musicology
The Department of Historical Musicology at Dortmund takes a practical approach to various topics related to musical life, both past and present. Music is contextualized within a wide range of social developments and studied from an interdisciplinary…
Music Education
Music education in Dortmund combines innovative research with practice-oriented teaching, including through the development of video-based teaching formats. In cooperation with regional schools, this approach fosters a forward-looking and musically…
Music in the Media/Music Journalism
Through a unique combination of theory and practice, as well as musicology and journalism, this program explores music in the media and provides training in how to report on it.
Music Theory
Analyzing, understanding, arranging, and composing music: In the field of music theory, the study of the theoretical structure of every piece of music is combined with its practical application.
Systematic Musicology
Through its research and teaching, the Department of Systematic Musicology at Dortmund, as a multidisciplinary field, explores topics such as music psychology (the perception, processing, and impact of music) and music sociology (music as a social…