Johannes Menke (born in 1972) is a German

music theorist 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 (k ...

, University lecturer and composer.

Life

Born in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

, Menke studied oboe, school music and German language and literature in Freiburg im Breisgau, then music theory with

Eckehard Kiem Eckehard Kiem (12 September 1950 in Berka vor dem Hainich – 29 December 2012) was a German music theorist, university professor and composer. In his major fields of study he concentrated - in addition to a practical and analytical examinatio ...

and musical composition with

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. He received his doctorate in 2004 with a thesis on Giacinto Scelsi at the

TU Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It wa ...

supervised by Janina Klassen. From 1999 to 2009 Menke has taught music theory at the

Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to ''universities'' and ''colleges'' in English. The term ''Universität'' (plural: ''Universitäten'') is reserved for institutions with the right to ...

. Since 2007 he has been professor for historical composition at the

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that have ...

. From 2008 to 2012 he was president of the . Menke is editor of the series ''sinefonia'' (Wolke-Verlag), the series ''Praxis und Theorie des Partimentospiels'' (Florian Noetzel Verlag) and the magazine '. He has published numerous publications on the analysis as well as the history and didactics of music theory, including two textbooks on counterpoint of the Renaissance and Baroque periods (Laaber-Verlag). Up to now he has composed mainly vocal and chamber music.

Publications

* ''PAX : Analyse bei Giacinto Scelsi: "Tre canti sacri" und "Konx-Om-Pax"''. * ''Kontrapunkt I: Die Musik der Renaissance''. * ''Kontrapunkt II: die Musik des Barock''. * ''Schlüsselwerke der Musik''. ''Schlüsselwerke der Musik''
on WorldCat

References

External links

Publikationen und Kompositionen von Johannes Menke
on the Website of the
Interview
in der Badischen Zeitung vom 26. Oktober 2012
Publications
by Johannes Menke on

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