Günther Noll

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Günther Noll (born August 24, 1927 in Staßfurt ) is a German music teacher and university teacher.

Education and professional career

After training at the Institute for Teacher Training in Staßfurt with first and second teacher exams and subsequent school service, he began studying school music / musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1952 to 1956, completing the state examination for the upper level. During his subsequent time as a research assistant and lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin, he was employed by the music teacher Fritz Reuter at the pedagogical faculty in 1960 with his dissertation investigating the importance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his ideas for music education . General overview and special representation of its cipher script as the beginning of a modern music methodology. A PhD contribution to their history . In 1961 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. Here he became a research associate of the German Music Council in the Liaison Office for International Relations (Cologne 1962–1964). After the first and second state examinations in philology for teaching at higher schools (Cologne 1964) and a subsequent school career up to the senior student council, he went to the University of Education in the Rhineland , Bonn department, as a research assistant and lecturer , where he completed his habilitation and then to the scientific council and professor was appointed. After a teaching position at the University of Wuppertal (1973–1974), he was appointed full professor of music and its didactics with a focus on musical folklore at the Neuss department of the Rhineland Pedagogical University and was appointed director of the Institute for Musical Folklore. With the transfer of the Neuss department to the University of Düsseldorf , 1980, teaching there. In 1985 he was appointed to the University of Cologne and in 1986 also the transfer to the Institute for Musical Folklore. In 1992 he retired .

Act

Extensive artistic activity as a choir director and ensemble leader at schools and universities, numerous concerts and events, especially with the Folklore Ensemble Bonn 1966–1976. Head of teacher training weeks, speaker at numerous conferences and congresses, also abroad. Initiator and co-founder of the working group "Research in Music Education" (today: "Arbeitskreis Musikpädagogische Forschung eV"), long-standing member of the board. First speaker of the federal specialist group for music education (association of institutions for music teacher training) 1972–1975, board member 1985–1989, conference leader. Employee in university curriculum specialist group commissions, member of expert commissions of the German Music Council . 1975–1980 editor and co-editor of the scientific journals “Music and Education” and “Research in Music Education”, 1979–1992 editor of “ad marginem”. 1980–1984 Chairman of the North Rhine Music Education Section and 2nd Chairman of the NRW State Section. 1985–1994 second chairman of the Working Group for Rhenish Music History , 1994–1995 first chairman. 1988–1996 chairman of the commission for song, music and dance research (now commission for research into musical folk cultures) in the German Society for Folklore .

Honors

Works

Numerous publications in musical folklore and music education with a focus on: amateur musicians ; Song research (song reception, song monograph, children's song, dialect song); Oppositional spiritual youth singing in the GDR dictatorship; Custom research; Folklore research; Street music; Teaching and curriculum research; Motivation and creativity research; Improvisation didactics; Historical music education; Music teacher training; Textbook author and editor.

literature

  • Gisela Probst-Effah (Hrsg.): Musical folklore and music pedagogy: Approaches and intersections. Festschrift for Günther Noll on his 75th birthday. Essen: The Blue Owl, 2002. ISBN 3-89924-021-9
  • 50 years of ethnomusic research. Institute for Musical Folklore (1964–2010). Institute for European Ethnic Music (since 2010). Edited by Klaus Näumann, Günther Noll, Gisela Probst-Effah, Astrid Reimers, Wilhelm Schepping and Reinhard Schneider. Cologne 2014 / download

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://hf.uni-koeln.de/34951
  2. ^ Heinz Wegener: Bibliography Fritz Reuter . In the S. (Red. Ed.): Commemorative publication Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Social and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). P. I-VIII, here: P. VII.
  3. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Noll, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Staßfurt