Primary scholarly supervision
Doctoral Studies in the Vice Rectorate for Research (Artistic Research and Contemporary Performance Practice)
Topic areas for dissertations:
- Instrumental Performance Studies
- Performance practice in contemporary music and multimedia
- Embodiment in instrumental Practice
- Interdisciplinary inquiry into the composer-performer-audience relationship(Collaboration, participatory art, charisma)
- Artistic research
- Impact of game elements in multimedia art
Lüneburg, Barbara
Institute for Music Education
Topic areas for dissertations:
- Artistic Citizenship; Interdisciplinarity; Outreach; Community Music
- Transcultural Music Education
- Higher Music Education
- Digitality and Music Education
Institute for Theory and History (Musicology)
Topic areas for dissertations
- History of musical interpretation; empirical interpretation research
- Historical themes in relation to music and power; Music and society; Music in functional contexts or musical organisation structures
- History of the construction and use of musical instruments; musical instruments as cultural historical media; organology
Laubhold, Lars-Edvard
Topic areas for dissertations
- Music analysis and Formenlehre (voice-leading schemata, Schenker, Neo-Riemannian theory, sonata theory, tonal harmony, Tonfeld theory etc.)
- Digital Musicology (Corpus Studies)
- Musical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
- Film music
- Music Cognition
- Migration of musicians and stylistic transfer
- History of 18th- and 19th-century music
Neuwirth, Markus
Topic areas for dissertations
- Music history in the context of cultural studies
- Cultural history and its methods (mentality history, microhistory, discourse history, cultural studies, body studies)
- History of musical aesthetics
- Historical and media-theoretical inquiry into music conveyance and outreach
- Radio music (historically and systematically in the context of qualitative radio research)
Nicklaus, Hans Georg
Topic areas for dissertations
- Music related gender studies
- Popular music and culture (with a focus on historical studies)
- Music history of the 19th and 20th century
- Research into music theatre, and music and migration
Stahrenberg, Carolin