Christian Lehmann (musicologist)

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Christian Lehmann (born September 23, 1966 in Munich ) is a German musicologist and author.

Christian Lehmann studied biology, musicology, German and singing and received his doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. phil. majoring in musicology. To date, he has published specialist articles and book chapters, primarily on the biological basis of human musicality and the history and practice of classical singing. His popular science book The Genetic Clef, on the evolutionary origins and anthropological significance of music, has been translated into several languages. In 2016 Lehmann shot the TV documentary Lullaby and Battle Song for ARTE and Bavarian TV . In 2018 his biography about the singer Joseph Leoni , the namesake of the village Leoni on Lake Starnberg, was published.

Together with Wulf Schiefenhövel and other scientists from the former Max Planck Research Center for Human Ethology in Erling-Andechs, Lehmann founded the Ethology of the Arts (EthArts) working group in the Society for Anthropology (GfA). Christian Lehmann teaches as a lecturer at the Universities of Munich and Regensburg. He is also active as a singer and singing teacher.

Publications (selection)

  • Joseph Leoni. An Italian at Lake Starnberg. Munich: Volk 2018. ISBN 978-3-86222-251-3
  • with Reinhard Copyz : Origins of Music. In: Handbuch Musikpsychologie, ed. by Andreas Lehmann and Reinhard copyz. Göttingen: Hogrefe 2018, pp. 41–62. ISBN 978-3-456-85591-2
  • Dragon slayers and women who understand. The tenor voice as a biological signal - a human ethological approach. In: The tenor. Myth - History - Present (= Music - Culture - History, Vol. 8), ed. by Corinna Herr , Arnold Jacobshagen and Thomas Seedorf . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017, pp. 59–70. ISBN 978-3-8260-6204-9
  • Article anthropology of singing, stage discussion, choral singing, singing, portamento in: Lexikon der Gesangsstimme, ed. by Ann-Christin Mecke, Martin Pfleiderer, Bernhard Richter and Thomas Seedorf. Laaber: Laaber 2016. ISBN 978-3-89007-546-4
  • Art as behavior. An ethological approach to visual and verbal art, music and architecture, ed. by Christa Sütterlin, Wulf Schiefenhövel, Christian Lehmann, Johanna Forster and Gerhard Apfelauer. Oldenburg: BIS 2014. ISBN 978-3-8142-2290-5
  • The genetic clef. Why music is part of being human. Munich: Herbig 2010. ISBN 978-3-7766-2646-9
  • Singing controversy, serenades and signals. On the biology and evolution of musical behavior (= On the Reins of Evolution, Vol. 7). Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung 2009. ISBN 978-3-86135-577-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Human ethology working group on the GfA website of the Society for Anthropology, accessed on July 17, 2018
  2. ↑ Dr. Christian Lehmann website of the Institute for Musicology at LMU Munich, accessed on July 17, 2018
  3. ^ Staff website of the University of Regensburg, accessed on July 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich