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Hansjürgen Schaefer
Hansjürgen Schaefer (1930 – 1999) was a German musicologist and music critic. Life Born in Freiberg, Schaefer studied music in Leipzig from 1952 to 1954 and musicology in Berlin from 1954 to 1957. From 1957 to 1960 he was editor of the ''Berliner Zeitung''. From 1960 to 1973 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Musik und Gesellschaft''. From 1973 to 1991 he was the artistic director of the VEB Deutsche Schallplatten. Publications * ''Musik in der sozialistischen Gesellschaft''. (1967) * ''Johann Sebastian Bach : 1685-1750''. (1984) * ''Orchestermusik''. (1987) * ''Johannes Brahms : ein Führer durch Leben und Werk''. (1997) * ''Joseph Haydn : Leben und Werk : ein Konzertbuch''. on WorldCat (2000) References External links ...
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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] |
