Welcome to the Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn!

As a joint institution of the University of Paderborn and the University of Music Detmold, the Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar is dedicated to the study and research of music and music culture. The focus is on study programs in the field of musicology at the Bachelor’s, Master’s, or doctoral level. At the same time, we are an established hub for research, with around forty researchers working here. The main location of the Musikwissenschschaftliches Seminar is the Detmold FORUM Wissenschaft–Bibliothek–Musik, together with the large music library. Additional locations include the university campus and HNI in Paderborn, as well as the Kreativ Campus Detmold.

News and events

Öffentlicher Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Musik, Dämonen und Despoten” +++ 18:15 bis 19:45 Uhr +++ Kuppelsaal der HfM Detmold, Willi-Hofmann-Straße 5

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Non/Re­peat

Konzert mit interaktiver Musik für Klavier und Live-Elektronik +++ Marten Jambor | Maria Kallionpää | Yoakim López +++ Nichtlineare Werke von Ruth Zechlin | Maria Kallionpää | Roman Haubenstock-Ramati +++ Eintritt frei! +++ KreativInstitut.OWL +++ Abschlusskonzert des Lehrprojekts “Kodierung und Performance nichtlinearer Musik” (Studienjahr 2024/2025)

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On Thursday, October 17, 2024, the concert series “Stadtklänge - Music and Science in Detmold” will start with the trio “corde et ore” at 6 p.m. in the Lippisches Landesmuseum.

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Öffentlicher Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Musik, Dämonen und Despoten” +++ 18:15 bis 19:45 Uhr +++ Kuppelsaal der HfM Detmold, Willi-Hofmann-Straße 5

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ZenMEM und KIO stark aktiv beteiligt an internationaler Konferenz +++ City University London +++ 3. bis 6. Juni 2025 +++ Online-Teilnahme möglich

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Edirom Online 2.0.0 is here... on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5347861 on GitHub: https://github.com/Edirom/Edirom-Online/releases/tag/v2.0.0 With separate software bases for backend and frontend and overhauled build process and documentation this is quite a big conceptual change to the version 1.0.0 which was the last monolithic Edirom Online version. The new version makes it easier to setup an own Edirom instance - only Docker is…

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Öffentlicher Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Musik, Dämonen und Despoten” +++ 18:15 bis 19:45 Uhr +++ Kuppelsaal der HfM Detmold, Willi-Hofmann-Straße 5

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Info

Sum­mer semester 2025

Courses +++ Overview (Download) +++ Registration +++ Annotated course catalogue

Lec­ture series “Mu­sic, demons and des­pots”

Cordial invitation to the public lecture series in the summer semester 2025!

Stu­dent Coun­selling Ser­vice

Student counselling for the degree programmes of the Department of Musicology