Music Studies

The subject of musicology is traditionally divided into the three areas of historical musicology, ethnomusicology and systematic musicology. At the Frankfurt Institute, historical musicology is represented with two professorships, a co-opted professorship and an academy professorship, which teach music history in its entirety: the current focus includes interpretation research, modern edition philology, the music of the 20th century, and opera history of the 18th and 19th . Century and cultural studies issues. Ethnomusicology, which is represented by a professorship, focuses on the world in the teaching of traditional and popular music. Courses on popular music and music, media and digitality are also offered from both a music history and ethnomusicology perspective. Finally, as part of the cooperation with the University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK), there are regular offers that integrate music practice into musicological teaching.