Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn

The Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn is a corporate establishment of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and the University of Paderborn. It acts as an interface between artistic praxis and musicology. The closeness of the practical music pratice at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold keeps leading to new stimulations for the scientific research. Projects in cooperation colleagues and students of the academy are withheld constantly. Within the studies of the BA and MA study courses these projects are cumpolsory for the students.

The Musicology Seminar offers study courses in the subject of musicology (bachelor, master, magister, doctorate) and also provides the course offers for cooperating study courses of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Furthermore the seminar cooperates with the university's study courses Popular Music and Media (BA and MA) as well as Media Studies (BA and Diploma).

The spectrum of courses reaches from the beginnings of music to the popular music and jazz. Focus of the sciences and studies is in the field of historical music science advanced by traditional areas of work around the culture-historical approaches. The cooperation with the University of Paderborn adds topics of the systematic musicology to the studies.

Especially the music of the early modern times, music and music aesthetics of the 18th until the 20th century, operas and singing science, woman and gender studies, jazz and popular music, music philology and edition are important for the work in the musicology seminar.

One of the professorships of the seminar belongs to the Network Women Science North Rhine Westphalia (Netzwerk Frauenforschung Nordrhein-Westfalen). This is the only professorship at a German speaking university with special denomination for musicology gender studies/music of women.

The Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe has its roots at the musicology seminar Detmold/Paderborn as well as the science project Edirom, an innovative project for the use of digital appliance for music edition.

The International Ethel Smyth Society was founded on July 17th 2009 in Detmold. The general goal of the society is to ideally and financially support research on the life and work of the English composer Ethel Smyth in her cultural-historical context.