Research directions

The research in musicology at TU Dresden is characterized by the diversity of its perspectives and interdisciplinary. It aims to overcome the institutionally predetermined separation of systematic and historical approaches and to establish links.

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Overview of main topics

Empirical Musicology

One focus of Jun.-Prof. Miriam Akkermann is the research of contemporary music with the methods of Digital Humanities. Read more about this on the pages of the Junior Professorship for Empirical Music Research.

BA-/MA-Thesis

Get an overview of the wide-ranging research interests of our students.

Forschungsprojekte

Research in the field of musicology at TU Dresden has one disciplinary focus on the use of and research into digital technologies, both in terms of the object of study and the set of methods available, and another on performance practices in music. There are also several interdisciplinary projects dealing with the topics of sleep, trauma, as well as the anthropocene and climate.

Research in the Division of Musicology

Musicological research at TU Dresden includes topics from historical musicology, empirical musicology, sociology of music, sound research and music cognition. More information about the research can be found here.