Doctorates in musicology / music pedagogy

Current doctoral projects in musicology

• Bell, Fabian: "... And eternal sleepers, day awaits you too"
• Beyer, Marion: Interconfessionality in the 19th century using the example of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's church music aesthetics
• Borchers, Sebastian: Rhythm and sound. Foundations of the transnational interrelations between Germany and Poland in music
• Börsing, Christian: On the avant-garde of rock music in West Germany 1968-1975
• Brosy, Maximilian: The artists' opera in the 19th century
• Dahm, Marcus: The Trier cathedral conductor Michael Hermesdorff and the choral restoration of the 19th/20th century
• Dammann, Christian: French Wagner parodies from 1860 to 1914
• Desalm, Benjamin: Furtwängler and Toscanini. Beethoven interpretation in the shadow of the Second World War 1939-1945
• Engbers, Tobias: Studies on Richard Strauss' opera "The Silent Woman"
• Fess, Eike: Symphony and string quartet - parallel genre discourses and structural developments
• Giangkitseri, Maria: Concepts and practices of musical education using the example of monophonic liturgical music of the Eastern and Western Church from the Middle Ages to the 21st century
• Grossert, Sarah: Aesthetic judgments and social differentiation. Practices of classification and subjectivation in music journals 1770-1840
• Habelt, Jürgen: Encounters, Correspondents, Transfer. An investigation into genre-historical processes in the work of the Braunschweig composer Hans Sommer
• Kabala, Mateusz: Mieczyslaw Karlowicz. A composer in the environment of the Young Poland movement
• Kelmendi, Arsim: Choral works by Albanian composers from Kosovo
• Kersken, Oliver: The Court Music of the Palatinate-Neuburg Dukes and Electors in the Residential City of Düsseldorf
• Kloos, Franziska: Collective authorship and the transformation of the compositional process
• Krahl, Nora: Vocal tapes and audio tapes. The use of language at the beginning of electronic music
• Krüger, Lukas: Franz-Ignaz Biber's "Rosenkranz Sonatas"
• Kuchersky, Mikhail: Church music at the court of Prince Nicholas II Esterházy
• Kunze, Esther: Mona Lisa - an emancipation opera. The musical dramaturgy in Mayx von Schilling's and Beatrice Dovsky's Mona Lisa
• Lange, Thomas: Organ music in post-war Germany between artistic aspiration and liturgical function
• Lindemann, Kirsten: Telemann's "Preacher's Introductory Music"
• Loges, Annika: Louis Spohr's Faust in the context of the development of German Romantic opera
• Magesacher, Elisabeth: Cultural diversity in music exhibitions. Museum analytical investigations
• Naglav, Katharina: Word expression in Brahms Requiem
• Özdiker, Enver-Yalcin: Transcultural processes between Ottoman art music and Western contemporary music
• Petrov, Marin: On striving for order, insertions and the overturning of the design; or playing with structures as a search for the form in the flow. On aspects of Wolfgang Rihm's music
• Piel, Sebastian: Farewell to Dresden - Contextualization of the Dresden Requiem RMWV 10 by Rudolf Mauersberger
• Salinga, Tobias: Popular and German Schlager as sociotopes
• Sandmann, Anne-Katrin: Ophelia in the music of the 20th/21st century
• Schlothmann, Julia: German-language Moses oratorios. Comparative musical analysis in the context of a religious and cultural-historical classification
• Schmidt, Stefan: Artistic profile and unique selling points as the basis for commercial success using the example of independent ensembles in classical music
• Schneider, Sven: Classical art music of the 16th to 18th centuries in Bolivia, especially from the Chiquitos and Moxos collections
• Seggioli, Alessandro: Stockhausen and the electronic studio of the WDR
• Sielczak, Christoph: Studies on the music of Italian Futurism
• Spengler, Anja: The "uncanny" and the "bizarre" in compositions of the fin de siècle
• Stinder, Frank: Diversity of acoustic systems in instrument making as a prerequisite for musical diversity using the example of constructive parameters in grand piano making
• Strothmann, Christiane: The Umdze in the Yundrung Bön
• Swoboda, Elke: Composition and multimedia aspects - audiovisual concepts at the end of the 20th century
• Tanir, Ada Gülen: Investigations into compositional technique and the relationship between theory and practice in Georg Muffat
• Uyar, Serhat: The tradition of ozan singing in Turkish music
• Wilhelm, Ursula: Modus and Melos. Studies on the chants of Hildegard von Bingen
• Winnen, Tobias: Training and rehearsal practice in the Yué opera

Completed doctorates in musicology

• Alsmeier, Judit: Composing with Tones. Nikos Skalkottas and Schönberg's "Composition with 12 Tones"
• Alonso Amat, Maria del Mar: Contemporary representation of Geor Friedrich Händel in museums. A comparison of memorial culture in Halle (Saale) and London
• Becker, Jonas: Concert dramaturgy and program design as a marketing instrument using the example of orchestras in the Ruhr region
• Becker, Wolfgang: The Gregorian chants of the Essen Liber ordinarius - transcription and comparative studies of the chants from the manuscripts Essen Hs. 19 and Düsseldorf Ms. 47
• Drees, Stefan: Architecture and fragment. Studies on late compositions by Luigi Nono
• Feldhordt, Philip: Instructions for free fantasy. Improvisation treatises of the 18th and 19th centuries in comparison
• Frühauf, Tina: Organ and organ music in German-Jewish culture
• Gerlings, Hans Jakob: The Codex 376 of the Abbey Library of St. Gall. Codicological and paleographical recording and semiological studies
• Gronemann, Peter: Varietas delectat. Variety in masses of Johannes Tinctoris
• Günnigmann, Manfred: The case of Werner Korte. Musicology during National Socialism and in the post-war period in Münster - an attempt to come to terms with the past
• Hwang, Soondo: Clarinet chamber music in the succession of Johannes Brahms
• Jacob, Andreas: Studies on the concept of composition and compositional style in Bach's piano exercises
• Kammertöns, Christoph: Chronique scandaleuse. Henri Herz - an enfant terrible in French music criticism of the 19th century
• Kampe, Gorden: "As if it were a fairy tale". Studies on topoi typical of fairy tales in 20th century music theater
• Landreh, Konrad: Manuel de Falla's ballet music
• Linke, Ulrich: The French song cycle from 1866 to 1914: developments and structures
• Orgass, Stefan: Disposition and Elaboration in Bach's Late Clavier Works (1739-1749)
• Reissenberger, Benjamin: Practical performance study of exemplary clarinet works from Mozart to Brahms
• Siedenberg, Markus: An analysis of selected performative interpretations of Beethoven's "sonate testament" in C minor, op. 111
• Stratz, Constanze: Ernst Toch in California. From exile to emigration
• Strohmann, Nicole K.: Genre, gender and society in France at the end of the 19th century. Studies on the poet-composer Augusta Holmès with a list of works and sources
• Stücker, Bianca: Gothic Electro - The functionalization of technology within the subcultural context
• Tahriri, Madhid: Iranian-European instrumental music in the context of the modernization of Iranian music and Iranian musical life from 1850 onwards
• Thomas, Christina: Historical-critical edition of Robert Schumann's
  Romances and Ballads
• Tienstra, Rens: East Frankish melodic variants in Dutch chorale manuscripts of the 12th to 16th centuries
• Uhl, Markus: Choral reform in the context of the Council of Trent
• Zwetzschke, Jana: "...I am sure that I will learn to love him...". Studies on the reception of Bach in Russia

Current doctoral projects in music pedagogy

• Eigenrauch, Sebastian: Development of a methodological toolkit to investigate the relationship between music didactics and political thinking in music teachers
• Funke, Elisabeth: Investigations into the relevance of neurobiological research from the perspective of scientific music education
• Psotta, Liza: Knowledge transfer - science communication - interdisciplinarity: systematic and empirical studies from a music education perspective
• Tigges, Lea: "Stimm-Bildung": Investigations of musical-cultural educational processes in boys' choirs
• Wickel, Andreas: Humor and music education
• Wörner, Ruth: Teaching to teach - individual perspectives on planning and freedom in music and movement education - a qualitative interview study

Completed doctorates in music pedagogy

• Krause, Martina: Meaning and significance. Interpretation of music in a music pedagogical dimension
• Kruse, Andreas: Closeness and distance. Intersections of music and religion in the context of pedagogical reflection
• Mertens, Sebastian: Music as sounding didactics - pedagogical intentionality as a compositional idea
• Niegot, Adrian: The historical content of music as a didactic category, or: How can music history come into its own through teaching?
• Noll, Felizitas: The beautiful sound. Aesthetic education at the piano
• Sachsse, Malte: The concept of music and the image of man in 20th century music education thinking
• Schönwitz, Marcus G.: Music and movement in didactic contexts. Analysis of a myth and construction of an understanding teaching culture
• Starzinger, Hans Dieter: Music education in and out of school in North Rhine-Westphalia - a quantitative and qualitative comparison
• Wolff, Dagmar: The Ω-method in the context of piano-technical movement concepts. Model for the optimization of piano technique, learning strategy and rehabilitation concept using physiological and learning psychological aspects