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Siegmund Helms (born 14 December 1938) is a German
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 mu ...
and
music educator Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do original ...
.


Life

Born in
Nordhorn Nordhorn (Northern Low Saxon: ''Nothoorn'' (or ''Notthoarn'', ''Netthoarn'' and ''Noordhoorn'')) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the district seat of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony's southwesternmost corner near the border with the ...
, Helms studied school music (including philosophy, psychology and education) and geography as well as musicology (including
ethnomusicology Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dim ...
) in
Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
,
Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...
and Berlin from 1958. In 1967, his
doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...
was awarded the a
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degree from the
Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...
with a dissertation on '' Die Melodiebildung in den Liedern von J. Brahms und ihr Verhältnis zu Volksliedern und volkstümlichen Weisen''. He passed the first and second
Staatsexamen The ("state examination" or "exam by state"; pl.: ''Staatsexamina'') is a German government licensing examination that future physicians, dentists, teachers, pharmacists, food chemists, psychotherapists and jurists (i.e., lawyers, judges, public ...
in 1964 in Berlin and 1968 in Kassel. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in Göttingen. From 1971 to 1974, Helms was a
lecturer Lecturer is an List of academic ranks, academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. T ...
in music education at the Pädagogische Hochschule Bayreuth and from 1974 to 1977, a professor of music education at the
Musikhochschule Frankfurt The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (german: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, italic=no, link=no, HfMDK) is a state Hochschule for music, theatre and dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its k ...
. Subsequently, he took over a professorship for
music education Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origina ...
at the
Musikhochschule Köln A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...
until 2002, where he was appointed, among other things, head of the Institute for School Music and deputy director of the Musikhochschule Rheinland (name of the
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln The Cologne University of Music ( is a music college in Cologne, Germany. Founded in 1850, it is Europe's largest academy of music. History The academy was founded by Ferdinand Hiller in 1850 as ''Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln''. In 1895 Ger ...
from 1972 to 1987) and later also dean of the Department Musikpädagogik/Musikwissenschaft. Helms was chairman of several German music education associations and a member of international committees. In addition, he was active as a journalist in many ways. He has been married since 1966 to the musicologist with a doctorate in musicology Marianne Helms ''née'' Henze.


Publications


Books

* ''Schlager in Deutschland'' (ed.), Breitkopf & Härtel Wiesbaden 1972 * ''Außereuropäische Musik'', Breitkopf & Härtel Wiesbaden 1974 (Swedish. translation, Stockholm 1985) * ''Musik in der Werbung'', Breitkopf & Härtel Wiesbaden 1981 * ''Lexikon der Musikpädagogik''. (ed. with H. Hopf and W. Heise), Bosse Verlag Regensburg 1984 * ''Handbuch der Schulmusik'' (ed. with H. Hopf and E. Valentin), Bosse Verlag Regensburg 1985 * ''Werkanalyse in Beispielen'' (ed. with H. Hopf), Bosse Verlag Regensburg 1986 * ''Musikpädagogik und Musikwissenschaft'' (ed. with H. Hopf and A. Edler), Noetzel Verlag Wilhelmshaven 1987 * ''Musikpädagogik – Spiegel der Kulturpolitik'', Gustav Bosse Verlag Regensburg 1987, * ''Musikpädagogische Literatur 1977-1987 – Eine Auswahlbibliographie'',
Gustav Bosse Gustav Bosse (6 February 1884 – 27 March 1943) was a German music publisher. Life Born in Vienenburg/Harz as son of the sugar factory director and music publisher Fritz Bosse, he founded the for music books in Regensburg in 1912. Already the ...
Verlag Regensburg 1988, * ''Musikpädagogik zwischen den Weltkriegen – Edmund Joseph Müller'', Möseler Verlag Wolfenbüttel/Zürich 1988 * ''Schülerbild – Lehrerbild – Musiklehrerausbildung'' (ed. with U. Günther), Verlag Die Blaue Eule Essen 1992, * ''Neues Lexikon der Musikpädagogik'' (ed. with R. Schneider and R. Weber), Sach- und Personenteil, Bosse Verlag Kassel 1994 and 2001 * ''Kompendium der Musikpädagogik'' (ed. with R. Schneider), Bosse Verlag Kassel 1995, 2nd edition. 2000 * ''Verwerfungen in der Gesellschaft – Verwandlungen in der Schule'' (ed. with B. Jank and N. Knolle), Wißner Verlag Augsburg 1996, * ''Handbuch des Musikunterrichts'' (3 volumes) (ed. with R. Schneider and R. Weber), Bosse Verlag Kassel 1997 , , * ''Lübbes Musical-Führer'' (ed. with M. Kruse and R. Schneider), Gustav Lübbe Verlag Bergisch Gladbach 1998 * ''Praxisfelder der Musikpädagogik'' (ed. by R. Schneider and R. Weber), Bosse Verlag Kassel 2001 * ''Allgemein bildende Schule und Musikschule in europäischen Ländern'' (ed.), Bosse Verlag Kassel 2002, * ''Die große Musikschule – Kinder und Jugendliche lernen musizieren''.''Die große Musikschule Kinder und Jugendliche lernen musizieren ; [das richtige Instrument für Kinder und Jugendliche''
on WorldCat (ed.), Naumann & Göbel Cologne 2003 * ''Das grosse Buch der Kinderlieder'' (ed.), Naumann & Göbel Cologne 2004 * '' Liederbuch für Kinder'' (ed.), Schwager & Steinlein Verlag Cologne o.-J. * ''Lexikon der Musikpädagogik'' (ed. with R. Schneider and R. Weber), Bosse Verlag Kassel 2005 (completely revised new edition) * ''Die schönsten Volks- und Wanderlieder'' (ed.), Komet Verlag Köln 2006 * ''Heinrich Helms: "Nun gute Nacht, meine Lieben!" – Briefe aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg'' (ed.), Verlag Monsenstein und Vannerdat Münster 2006,


Other publications

* Approx. 100 essays, including: * ''Zahlen in J. S. Bachs Matthäus-Passion'', in Musik und Kirche, issue 1–2, 1970, and 100–110 (as well as Zahlensymbolik in der Musik Bachs, in Musik und Bildung, issue 3/1970, ) * ''Johannes Brahms und das deutsche Kirchenlied'', in Der Kirchenmusiker, issue 2/1970, * ''Brahms und Bach'', in Bach-Jahrbuch 1971, * ''Stilmerkmale japanischer Musik'', in Musik und Bildung, issue 1/1975, * ''Musikpädagogik und außereuropäische Musik'', in Musik und Bildung, issue 4/1976, * ''Musikpädagogik und Musikgeschichte'', in D. Altenburg (ed.): Ars musica – Musica scientia (Fs. for H. Hüschen), Verlag Gitarre und Laute Köln 1980, * ''Musiklehrerausbildung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zwischen Kunstanspruch und Schulalltag'', in Journal der Musikhochschule Köln, Nr. 1 / 1982, pp. 4f. * ''Zum Stand der vergleichenden Musikpädagogik'', in R. Klinkhammer (ed.): Schnittpunkte Mensch – Musik, Bosse Verlag Regensburg 1985, * Auge und Ohr – Zur Visualisierung von Musik und Musikalisierung von Bildern, in Musik und Unterricht, issue 2/1990, * ''Das Instrument in der Musikpädagogik'', in Musik und Unterricht, issue 6/1991, * ''Wirkungen von Musik'', in Musik und Unterricht, issue 18/1993, * ''Schrift und Klang'', in Musik und Unterricht, issue 24/1994, * Lexikon-Artikel, Berichte, Rezensionen sowie Schulfunksendungen für den NDR * Editionen (Works by J. Brahms and J. H. Schein)


Co-editor of publication series and journals

* ''Materialien zur Didaktik und Methodik des Musikunterrichts'' (edited with G. Rebscher and N. Linke), Breitkopf & Härtel Wiesbaden * ''Perspektiven zur Musikpädagogik und Musikwissenschaft'' (edited with W. Gieseler und R. Schneider), Bosse Verlag Regensburg / Kassel * ''Musikwerke im Unterricht'' (edited with Kl. Velten), Bosse Verlag Regensburg / Kassel * ''Materialien für den Musikunterricht'' (edited by R. Schneider), Con Brio Verlagsgesellschaft Regensburg * ''Musikpraxis in der Schule'' (edited with R. Schneider), Bosse Verlag Kassel * Zeitschrift für Musikpädagogik (Schriftleiter with R. Weber among others), Bosse Verlag Regensburg * ''Zeitschrift Musik und Unterricht'' (edited with W. Gruhn, Fr. Hoffmann, R. Schneider, R. Weber), Friedrich Verlag Velber bei Hannover (from 1990 to 1998) * ''Internet-Zeitschrift Europäisches Musik Journal'' (European Music Journal) (edited with W. Gruhn and R. Schneider), Verlag für Neue Medien Freiburg i. Br. (from 1999 to 2000)


Further reading

* Matthias Kruse / Reinhard Schneider (pub.): ''Musikpädagogik als Aufgabe – Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Siegmund Helms'', Gustav Bosse Verlag Kassel 2003


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Helms, Siegmund 20th-century German musicologists German music educators Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln Academic staff of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts 1938 births Living people People from Nordhorn