Clemens Kühn (born 1945) is a German music theorician.

Life

Born in

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

, Kühn studied School music, Germanistic in Hamburg and Berlin as well as

Music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

and composition with Diether de la Motte. In 1977 he was awarded a doctorate in

musicology 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 mu ...

as a student of

Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research focused on 19th- and 20th- ...

. After teaching at the

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universiti ...

and the

University of Music and Performing Arts Munich The University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (german: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München), also known as the Munich Conservatory, is a performing arts conservatory in Munich, Germany. The main building it currently occupies is ...

, he was appointed to the chair of music theory at the

Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber The Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber (Carl Maria von Weber College of Music; also/formerly known as Dresden Conservatory or Dresden Royal Conservatory) is a university of music in Dresden, Germany. History The Hochschule opened ...

in Dresden in 1997. Kühn was a staff member and editor of various periodicals, including from 1978 to 1996 co-editor and editor of the magazine.

Publications

* ''Das Zitat in der Musik der Gegenwart – mit Ausblicken auf bildende Kunst und Literatur''. Hamburg 1972. * ''Musiklehre''. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1981. * ''Gehörbildung im Selbststudium''.

Bärenreiter Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also ...

, Kassel 1983. (11th edition 2004.) * ''Formenlehre der Musik''. Munich and Kassel 1987. (7th edition 2004.) * ''Analyse lernen''. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1993, . * ''Kompositionsgeschichte in kommentierten Beispielen''. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1998. * ''Musiktheorie unterrichten – Musik vermitteln''. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2006, . * ''Musik erforschen. Ein Arbeitsbuch zu „Ordnungen in der Musik“ für die Jahrgänge 7 bis 9/10''. Altenmedingen 2008, . * ''Modulation kompakt : Erkunden - Erleben - Erproben - Erfinden''.''Modulation kompakt : Erkunden - Erleben - Erproben - Erfinden''
on WorldCat Bärenreiter, Kassel 2013, .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuhn, Clemens 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists 1945 births Living people Writers from Hamburg Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts