Musicology

Tectum publishes musicological works of the highest quality. The titles in our music programme are characterised by high-quality typesetting, state-of-the-art design elements and high-quality binding. Renowned editors oversee our musicological series, including Prof. Dr. Matthias Herrmann, who publishes the “Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchores” on behalf of the Dresdner Kreuzchor, or Prof. Dr. Claudia Bullerjahn, editor of the series “Systematische Musikwissenschaft und Musikkulturen der Gegenwart”. With the “Frankfurt Wagner Contexts”, the Richard Wagner Association Frankfurt am Main has expanded its scholarship programme, which previously focused on supporting young stage artists.

Publication Series

Dresdner Schriften zur Musik
Published by the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music. The responsible series editor is the current chairman of the doctoral committee, Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Matthias Herrmann

The series of the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music ties in with the historically evolved and still outstanding position of music in Dresden.

The series is by no means thematically fixed; it is also open to conference reports and publications by professors working at the institution.

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Frankfurter Wagner-Kontexte
Published by the Richard Wagner Society Frankfurt am Main

With the publication series Frankfurter Wagner-Kontexte, the Richard-Wagner-Verband Frankfurt am Main has expanded its scholarship programme, which has so far focused on supporting young stage artists. By awarding an annual publication scholarship, a musicological and high-quality contribution to Richard Wagner research is made. The range of topics is deliberately broad. The only requirement is that the primarily funded dissertations must guarantee a concrete context to the composer Richard Wagner.

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Musikpsychologie: Empirische Beiträge

Published by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Kopiez and Prof. Dr. Clemens Wöllner

Music psychology is a fascinating interdisciplinary field at the interface of musicology, psychology and social sciences. Its research focuses on people’s musical experiences, actions, mechanisms of perception and ways of dealing with music. Both basic research and application-oriented studies have their place. All music psychology articles published in this series share the characteristic of data-rich research. The data comes from a variety of sources such as psychological experiments, surveys or large corpora. In order to give these research activities a common platform, the series brings together research reports and selected dissertations that deal with the subjects of empirical-psychological music research at a high level.

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Musik und Religion
Published by Prof. Dr. Dominik Höink, Prof. Dr. Irene Holzer and Prof. Dr. Isabel Laack
The series is dedicated to multiple relationships between music and religion, understood as broad heuristic umbrella terms. These include the human approach to sound as well as non-institutionalized religiosity and tensions with relational concepts such as secularity. The aim is to broaden the dominant focus in European academic discourse on Europe and Christian church music. The volumes in the series are oriented towards musicology and religious studies, are not limited historically or geographically and make use of a wide range of methods from cultural studies, media studies, social sciences and ethnology.
The series brings together theses (dissertations and habilitations), monographs and anthologies that deal with the outlined subject area in an interdisciplinary manner.
Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchores
Published on behalf of the Dresdner Kreuzchor by Prof. Dr phil. habil. Matthias Herrmann

The writings of the Dresdner Kreuzchor are dedicated to one of the most traditional boys’ choirs of world renown. The Dresdner Kreuzchor is in its eighth century of existence and has helped write Dresden, Saxon and German musical history. Its sound culture has become a trademark and its repertoire reflects the great epochs of Western culture.

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Systematische Musikwissenschaft und Musikkulturen der Gegenwart
Edited by Prof. Dr Claudia Bullerjahn

The series presents the results of musicological research and scientific colloquia at the Institute for Musicology and Music Education at the Justus Liebig University Giessen.

The series addresses the latest research in the field of systematic musicology (especially music psychology, music sociology and music aesthetics) as well as all current phenomena of contemporary music cultural life and problematises them with a musicological focus.

Popular music and music in the media are also explicitly addressed and examined in an interdisciplinary manner. The series offers self-contained contributions on all forms of music.

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A Tectum Publication: Media Studies
Published by Tectum Verlag

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A Tectum Publication: Musicology
Published by Tectum Verlag

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Young Academics: Musicology

The series features outstanding theses in musicology. The authors examine music from very different perspectives with links to neighbouring disciplines and also address current developments and challenges in the music industry, such as digitisation, streaming and licensing.

Published by Tectum Verlag, the Young Academics series provides young authors the opportunity to contribute their research to scholarly discourse and gain visibility within the wider research community.
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