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Jobst Fricke
Jobst Peter Fricke (born 5 September 1930) is a German musicologist and professor at the musicological institute of the University of Cologne. Life Born in Bielefeld, between 1952 and 1959 Fricke studied physics, musicology, psychology and Communication studies at the University of Göttingen, the University of Berlin and the University of Cologne. In 1959/1960 he obtained his doctorate with his work ''Über subjektive Differenztöne höchster hörbarer Töne und des angrenzenden Ultraschalls im musikalischen Hören.'' In 1960/1961 and from 1963 to 1970, he was Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne, where he had the task of establishing a department for musical acoustics to research the acoustic and psychological foundations of music. In 1969, once habilitation, habilitated, also in Cologne, Fricke began to work on his thesis '' Intonation und musikalisches Hören''. Since 1970 Fricke had a professorship at the University of Colo ... [...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] |
