The musicology lecture series is a central event for the entire university. Each semester, it addresses a different overarching and relevant topic. Internationally renowned speakers present insights and outlooks in cooperation with musicology and the artistic departments at the university: on contemporary musical life, on music-historical questions, on composers, on central aspects of the history of music in Europe. Science and art enter into a dialogue, and everyone is invited to get to know the university as a place of knowledge transfer, as a thinking workshop.
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Music is experienced and loved. This needs no explanation. But the initial
enthusiasm is followed at some point by questions: Why do people love
this music in particular? What exactly is so inspiring about it? What influence do
origin, living conditions, education, income, age, gender have?
What does our love say about ourselves and our socialization?
Musical experiences are as diverse as interpersonal
encounters. One is instantly deeply moved or finds it difficult to
access. In any case, music opens up new perceptions
and horizons. In doing so, it shapes our understanding of ourselves and the world.
In the current lecture series, teachers at the HfMT Cologne
present their respective "favorite music". Instead of putting their own preferences
aside with professional distance when teaching, practising,
rehearsing, performing, discussing and analyzing, the
lectures and dialogues explicitly focus on their own fascination with music.
The personal confessions to currently or lifelong loved
music thus take on the characteristics of self-portraits. And because
even subjective declarations of love cannot do without objectifying language
and reflection, one inevitably ends up in discussions
about expectations, categories of experience, selection and
evaluation criteria. It will be exciting!
anna.schuermer@hfmt-koeln.de |
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Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln Unter Krahnenbäumen 87 50668 Köln |