Research
At the Department of Musicology at the University of Innsbruck, music is researched from various perspectives. The study of Western art music is mainly focussed on modern music, with a particular emphasis on Viennese modernism and contemporary music. In addition to the traditional historical approach, questions of music aesthetics, music sociology and music hermeneutics are investigated. Another field of Musicology research at the department is the examination of popular music, such as mainstream pop, punk, rap or popular brass music, and non-European music cultures, in particular from the South American lowlands, the Caribbean and East Asia. A central focus is cultural studies music research - with topics such as anti-Semitism, music and politics, music and cultural identities, music and gender.
More detailed information on the research activities can be found at Employee pages.
The Gustav Mahler Research Centre is closely networked with the institute.
Projects (ongoing and completed)
Carlo Ferdinando Lickl - A composer between two worlds
Project management: Dr Gregor Kokorz
Funding: FWF (Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research)
Towards a theory of musical writing. Iconic, performative, operative and material aspects of musical notation(s)
Project management: Prof. Dr Federico Celestini (University of Innsbruck), Prof. Dr Matteo Nanni (University of Giessen), Dr Simon Obert (Paul Sacher Foundation Basel) and Prof. Dr Nikolaus Urbanek (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
Funding: DACH project (FWF, SNF, DFG)
Website: www.writingmusic.net
"Tirolerei" in Switzerland
Project management: Prof. Univ.-Doz. Raymond Ammann
Funding: FWF (Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research)
Everyday musical practice of adolescents in Vienna
Project management: Dr Bernhard Steinbrecher
Funding: Municipal Department 7 and University Anniversary Foundation of the City of Vienna
Gustav Mahler's Tyrol
Project management: Dr Milijana Pavlović
Funding: TWF (Tyrolean Science Fund)
The boarding house of the pianist Edith Schreier in San Francisco
Project management: Dr Carolin Stahrenberg
Funding: Mariann Steegmann Foundation, Michael Freyhan, Future Fund Austria
Tyrolean National Singers - The singing families of Tyrol
Project management: Dr Sandra Hupfauf
Funding: TWF (Tyrolean Science Fund)
Music exile and identity as reflected in the music-historical and music-pedagogical writings of H.W. Freyhan
Project management: Dr Carolin Stahrenberg
Funding: TWF (Tyrolean Science Fund)
Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony: Sketches and compositional process
Project management: Dr Milijana Pavlović
Funding: FWF (Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research)
Giacinto Scelsi and Austria
Project management: Prof. Dr Federico Celestini
Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund)