Profile der Wissenschaftsbotschafter/innen

• 1 Besuch pro Semester
• Bevorzugte Regionen: Wien, Burgenland, Niederösterreich, Steiermark
• Besucht gerne folgende Schulstufen: SEK I, SEK II
• Anfallenden Kosten für die Schule: Rückerstattung der Fahrtkosten

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Volksmusikforschung, instrumentale Volksmusik
• Forschungsgeschichte
• Volksmusik(forschung) und politische Ideologien

Aktuelle Projekte

Buchpublikation zur Ideengeschichte der Ethnomusikologie als Ergebnis des Symposiums "Folk Music Research, Folkloristics, and Anthropology of Music in Europe Pathways in the Intellectual History of Ethnomusicology" (17—19 October 2019, Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology & mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna). Folk music, folklore, and the anthropology of music are discursive fields, deeply rooted in European thought from the Enlightenment period onwards. Up to the first decades of the 20th century, leading intellectuals of their countries—polymaths, philosophers, historians, writers, philologists, composers and musicologists—devoted themselves to, and were inspired by, continuous observations of the expressive practices of those who once were called the common people or the Volk. Their intellectual involvement with traditional music engendered powerful theories and research methods that could later be applied to the study not only of rural or illiterate communities but to a broad field of social settings. Due to language barriers as well as to widespread stereotypes of folk music and folklore discourses as genuinely and predominantly ideological, romanticist and nationalist agendas, the early intellectual history of folk music research, comparative musicology and ethnomusicology raises many unanswered questions. This concerns intellectuals’ interest in European folk music as well as in non-European music. The focus of the symposium is the history of theory and method in the fields outlined above before they turned into an international paradigm under the label of ethnomusicology in the mid-20th century. 27 scholars from 14 countries and from different disciplines will discuss the following topics:

• The history of ideas and the study of traditional expressive cultures
• Research motivations, theories and methods from a comparative perspective
• Scholarship and non-academic discourses: alliances and conflict

Projektlink (Symposium 2019)
 

Symposium "Motif-Centricity and Micro-Variation in Traditional Music": Certain genres of traditional instrumental music are largely dominated by only one or two short melodic units repeated over a long time span in continuous micro-variation. In European folk music research and in ethnomusicology, this type of music is referred to as repetitive forms, but also as Spielfigurenform (Felix Hoerburger), Spielformtyp (Christian Ahrens), parataxis (Haris Sarris, Tassos Kolydas, Panagiotis Tzevelekos), ostinato cycles (Michael Tenzer), twin-bar motifs (Balint Sárosi, after Zoltán Kodály), modularity (Christian Ferlaino) or motif-centricity (Ulrich Morgenstern). The underlying formative principles have also been studied by Tellef Kvifte and particularly in Italian ethnomusicology. The terminological disparity is based on the isolation of national research traditions. Until now, motif-centricity in European folk music has largely been studied with regard to particular regions (Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, the Turkish-Georgian border region). Some comparative perspectives outlined by Felix Hoerburger have not been developed further. Short, repetitive motifs are also a feature of much of the world’s music (Patrick Savage et al., 2015), yet few researchers have compared similarities and differences in motif repetition between Western and non-Western traditions. This symposium is an initiative to obtain a broader and more profound view of the topic from an interdisciplinary framework through presentations by 32 scholars from 15 countries and discussions with the audience. In the accompanying concert program, musicians from Italy, Georgia and Austria as well as performing ethnomusicologists among the speakers will give sonorous and visualized insights into the musical practices in question.

Projektlink
 

Auszug aus dem wissenschaftlichen Werdegang

• 1986-1993 Studium der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft in Hamburg, dort Promotion und Habilitation
• 1989-2011 Feldforschungen in Russland
• Seit 2012 Professor für Geschichte und Theorie der Volksmusik an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien