englischLeo Justinus Kauffmann was at the height of his creative powers when he was killed in an Allied air raid on Strasbourg in 1944. Subject to Nazi reprisals because of his Jewish wife and forced out of his job as a piano teacher, Kauffmann had to earn much of his living by composing light music [...]

englisch“Music in Christian Worship Today” is a cross-cultural historical study of the Nigerian practice of composing songs for worship that cut across cultures. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the subject matter, the book adopts a historical musicological method and partly an [...]

englischThe focus of this study is to present Korean music, which was composed in the European tradition but at the same time shaped by Korean culture, through the discourse of its transcultural aspects. To this end, a new research method for the analysis of Korean music is outlined at the beginning [...]

englischAn enriching read for all those who would like to take a closer look at Johann Sebastian Bach’s fascinating compositional workshop: Bach used the song melody, which for us today is primarily connoted with the text “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden”, in his cantatas and oratorios many times and [...]

englischThe influence of film music on the perception and experience of the visual worlds shown in a film can hardly be overestimated. But how can this effect, which film musicals leitmotifs exerts on both visual attention and emotional experience during multimodal film reception, be researched? To [...]

englischWe recognise a familiar piece of music after just a tenth of a second. Plink research investigates this auditory performance using short excerpts from pop songs. Which information components are decisive for their recognition has not been examined in detail so far. Felix Thiesen is the first [...]

englischThis complete analysis of an almost unknown late work by Offenbach makes it abundantly clear that his stage works contain much more than just pleasing melodies and satirical verses. Using the completely-preserved autograph score of the monumental blockbuster opera “Le Roi Carotte”, as well [...]

Dieser Band widmet sich der Frage, auf welche Weise indische Kultur mit der Musik und der Biografie George Harrisons verbunden ist. Handelt es sich bei der Einbeziehung von Elementen indischer Musik in seine Songs um bloßes orientalistisches Kolorit? Oder geht es um den Ausdruck eines tiefer [...]

Während der Tschechoslowakischen Ära war die Trompete sowohl ein Instrument der erhofften Zukunftsmusik als auch ein Zeitzeuge der bestehenden Kulturpolitik. Die ersten Vierteltontrompeten, die im Auftrag des tschechischen Mikroton-Komponisten Alois Hába gebaut wurden, spielten eine Nebenrolle in [...]

Mozart- und Haydnmessen gehören zum Standardrepertoire jeder guten Kantorei. Aber Messkompositionen seit 1950? Gibt es die Gattung „Messe“ überhaupt noch? Wie setzen sich Komponisten der letzten Jahrzehnte mit der Gattungstradition auseinander? Was lehnen sie ab, welche neuen Impulse setzen sie, [...]