Final theses since 2019

Bachelor's degree

2025

2024

Mair, Marlene: Sexism in Popular Music: A Study of The Weeknd's Music and Image. A Music and Discourse Analysis
Marksteiner, Robert: "Hunted from above but wanted from below"? The messages of the band Frei.Wild and how recipients deal with them
Unterlercher, Simon: The role of music in shamanism in the Siberian region

2023

Waltl, Sarah Andrea: An insight into the musical life of the Tyrolean nightlife of the 1990s. A comparison of town & country using examples from the Innsbruck & Innsbruck Land area
Ritschel, Leonard: The National Socialist radio system and the medialisation of the masses. On the danger of musical demagogy from a socio-cultural point of view
Ausserladscheider, Daniel: Evaluation judgements about hip-hop. Analysis and comparison of the years 2010 and 2020 using selected examples

2022

Danler, Lukas Berndt: Musical expression of "diaspora" in hip-hop by Afghan musicians in Austria
Greif, Andreas: On change in the madrigal works of Claudio Monteverdi. An investigation of structuring methods

2021

Kathrein-Wieser, Bernhard: Selva morale e spirituale. Comparison of the stile antico and stile concertato of selected pieces
Zahlmann, Johann Caspar: Music streaming. Structures and effects of a new type of reception
Besler, Raphael: Getz/Gilberto. Between jazz and bossa nova
Kuzinski, Valerie: Othello. The reception of Shakespeare in the operas Otello by Rossini and Verdi

2020

Mair, Raphael: The importance of Pierre Attaingnant for the dissemination of printed music in Europe
Sejkora, Markus: Hans Werner Henze, Shakespeare and the symphony. Analyses based on the Sinfonia N 8
Bönecke, Nina: Authenticity in Austrian popular music. A comparison of the two bands Bilderbuch and Wanda
Reier, Katharina: The image of women in Broadway musicals using the example of Kiss me, Kate
Lehner, Simon Josef: Music education in the 17th and 18th centuries as reflected in the Innsbruck Jesuit plays. Illustrated by the example of the Jesuit play Jacupus Rex Persiae
Rusch, Hanna Ariadne: The development of opera at the Habsburg court in Innsbruck in the 17th century. Taking a closer look at Antonio Cesti's works and their impact on courtly cultural life.
Vergeiner, Sandra: On the indefinability of the folk song. (Origin) theories and categorisation models in folk song research in the course of time - from "traditional" to new folk music
Flunger, Serafin: Piano and bourgeois music culture of the first half of the 19th century in Tyrol

2019

Heidegger, Paul: John Walsh - businessman, innovator, capitalist. A music-historical and sociological examination of the London music publishing industry from 1695 to 1730
Fick, Florian: Analysing aesthetic concepts and their implementation in the production process in jazz and pop music using the example of three Tyrolean bands

2025

Stern, Michael: "Procedamus ad fontem aquae vivae!" The transmission history of the Premonstratensian Easter Vespers based on the musical manuscripts and prints of Wilten Abbey/Innsbruck

2023

Lehner, Simon Josef: Music and power: an attempt at systematisation
Rusch, Hanna Ariadne: Gender discourse in the musical Biedermeier period: gender identities in Franz Schubert's song oeuvre
Vergeiner, Sandra: The hard plaster of the musical stage: Women in the musical business, their position and their handling of traditional femininity stereotypes on stage: An analytical-empirical research approach
Heidegger, Paul: How does the 'truth' sound? Music as a stage and medium of parrhesiastic play. A music-philosophical and political-phenomenological search for clues

2022

Mayer, Astrid: The Mohrherr family: piano making in the European context of the 19th century

2021

Gwercher, Christina: Music in sound film: the effect and function of minimal music in film
Brader, Lisa: Physicality or "corporeality" in the music-related literature of the Arabic Middle Ages

2020

Fuchs, Christoph: The emancipation of sound in the first half of the 20th century

2019

Cheshmedzhiev, Luben: Historical, Copyright and Philosophical Aspects of Musical Authorship. An interdisciplinary treatise using examples from Luciano Berio, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alfred Schnittke and John Cage
Wechner, Erich: Understanding African music: on the perception and conception of music in the Kingdom of Buganda, Uganda

2025

Lutz, Sarah: Digital Music Script. The Performativity of Sequencer Notation
Oberosler, Peter: The Tyrolean holdings of the Sonnleithner collection. A critical scrutiny of the representational content for music and song of the rural population of Tyrol at the beginning of the 19th century

2023

Praxmarer, Michael: Music(s) in the European Upper Palaeolithic: The Melting Pot Theory

2022

Sammer, Andrea: The Aesthetics of Jeremy Soule's Music. Exemplary demonstration of his personal style based on the game series The Elder Scrolls III-V

2021

Kammermann, Andrea: Nature yodelling and emotion: interdependencies with a focus on Unterwalden
Wey, Yannick: Transcription of wordless songs: Technique and repercussions of the transcription of yodelling and related songs in the German-speaking Alpine region
Holzmann, Andreas: Stringed keyboard instruments in Tyrol in the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries as elements of cultural transfer

2019

Reis, Gerhard Josef: 'Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600): The figure of the historical visual artist on the opera stage