Junior Professorship in Empirical Musicology

The Junior Professorship in Empirical Musicology combines current musicological questions with a mixed-method approach combining empirical, systematic and historical methods of analysis.

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Research

Musicological research is currently strongly influenced by the new challenges posed by digital technologies. Thus, methods for the analysis of (digital) sources need to be rethought, as do documentation and archiving.

Projects

In addition to the main research areas, there are projects that are implemented with cooperating researchers on various topics. A particular interest lies on projects at the intersection with artistic work or other research disciplines.

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The Junior Professorship for Empirical Musicology has been held by Dr. Miriam Akkermann since April 2019. Her research focuses are computer music, music technology, and performance practice and archiving of new music with digital media.

Empirical Musicology at TU Dresden

Technical developments and ongoing artistic tendencies influence (current) performances of compositions as well as their documentation and archiving. This can explicitly well observed when the source material is incomplete or if the existing source material strongly refers to prevailing knowledge, or artistic and cultural practices and common technologies at the time of its creation. In these cases as well as when aiming at topics that are closely linked to an interdisciplinary context, a broader set of methods is required to substantially address those research questions.

In the Research, the Junior Professor in Empirical Musicology focusses on the development of mixed method approaches, combining empirical and systematic methods, and on the research fields electroacoustic music, computer music, music technology, as well as archiving and re-performing music.