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Franz Födermayr
Franz Födermayr (13 September 1933 – 4 April 2020) was an Austrian musicologist. Life Born in Grieskirchen, Upper Austria, Födermayr studied musicology from 1954 at the University of Vienna with Erich Schenk (doctorate 1964). From 1964 to 1974 he worked as a university assistant at the musicological institute of the university, and in 1972 he received his habilitation. From 1973 he held the professorship for Ethnomusicology, comparative musicology at the University of Vienna, where he became ''emeritus'' in 1999. From 1986 he served as president of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft for four years. From 1987 to 1997 he was a member of the board of directors of the International Musicological Society. Publications * ''Die musikwissenschaftlichen Phonogramme Ludwig Zöhrers von den Tuareg der Sahara'', Dissertation, Vienna 1964 * ''Zur gesanglichen Stimmgebung in der außereuropäischen Musik'', [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some music research is scientific in focus (psychological, sociological, acoustical, neurological, computational). Some geographers and anthropologists have an interest in musicology so the social sciences also have an academic interest. A scholar who participates in musical research is a musicologist. Musicology traditionally is divided in three main branches: historical musicology, systematic musicology and ethnomusicology. Historical musicologists mostly study the history of the western classical music tradition, though the study of music history need not be limited to that. Ethnomusicologists draw from anthropology (particularly field research) to understand how and why people make music. Systematic musicology includes music theory, aesthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
