Georg Maas (music teacher)

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Georg Maas at the master class of the Film Music Days Saxony-Anhalt 2014

Georg Maas (born April 24, 1958 in Duisburg ) is a German music teacher and professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Georg Maas grew up in Dortmund and graduated from Phoenix-Gymnasium Dortmund in 1977 . Musically formative during this time were his music lessons (Brigitte Spieker) and his violin lessons with Georg Baynov and Günter Marx. After his civil service (head of a church media office with an affiliated film club), he completed a teaching degree with the subjects music ( Hochschule für Musik Detmold ) and German ( University of Paderborn ). After the first state examination for the teaching post secondary level II and I, he became a research assistant for music and its didactics at the University of Paderborn, where he received his Dr. phil. (Supervisor: Gerhard Tulodziecki ). This was followed by an activity as a research assistant. After completing his habilitation in 1994, he was appointed private lecturer and senior assistant. In 1995 Georg Maas was appointed to the chair for music education / music didactics at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, the oldest of its kind in Germany.

Act

Initially, Georg Maas' main focus was the didactics of popular music. From 1990 to 1996 he was a board member of the study group for popular music (ASPM).

In the area of ​​empirical teaching research, he wrote his educational dissertation on action-oriented concept formation in music teaching (Mainz 1989). The work was supervised by Gerhard Tulodziecki . Georg Maas was co-editor of the yearbook of music pedagogical research reports (1991–2004 together with Heiner Gembris and Rudolf-Dieter Kraemer ) and board member of the working group music pedagogical research (AMPF) 1990–1995 and 2002–2004.

His contributions to the symbiosis of film and music in film music and music film and their theming in music lessons proved to have a lasting impact. In addition to numerous articles and books, lectures and teacher training courses on the subject, his thematic booklet on film music was particularly popular. It was released in 2012 in an expanded and updated new edition with a media package.

To describe the functions of music in film, Maas developed a structuralist model that assumes that film music can work on several levels at the same time. He differentiates:

I. Tectonic functions (music as a building block for the external shape of the film; large structural reference)

II. Syntactic functions (music as an element of the narrative structure; formal reference)

III. Semantic functions (music as an element of content design; content reference)

a) connotative
b) denotative
c) reflexive

IV. Mediating functions (music as a mediator between film and audience)

The system is understood as an “attempt to provide an aid or an instrument for the investigation of film music functions”. Georg Maas was involved in the Film Music Days Saxony-Anhalt from the start .

Another focus of Georg Maas' work is the development of new school books. Georg Maas, together with Ines Mainz ( University of Music and Theater Leipzig ), publishes the textbook “Dreiklang”, which is widespread in the eastern states, which is published by Volk und Wissen (Cornelsen) and is also published in Sorbian translation (“Trojozynk”) .

From 2003 to 2006 Georg Maas was dean of the faculty and grand dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. 2014-2018 he held the office of Dean of the Philosophical Faculty II. Since September 2018 he has been a senator in the university's academic senate. From September 1, 2019, Maas will take over the management of the Center for Teacher Education (ZLB) at the University of Halle for a term of four years.

Publications (selection)

  • Pop / rock in music lessons. Schott, Mainz 1988 (with W. Schmidt-Brunner), ISBN 3-7957-2651-4 .
  • Action-oriented concept formation in music lessons. Schott, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-7957-1749-3 .
  • Music pedagogical research reports 1991-2004. Wißner, Augsburg 1992–2004 (edited with H. Gembris, R.-D. Kraemer).
  • Music and film - film music. Information and models for teaching practice. Schott, Mainz 1994 (with A. Schudack), ISBN 3-7957-0245-3 .
  • Learning to play music and new (teaching) technologies. The blue owl, Essen 1995 (conference report), ISBN 3-89206-680-9 .
  • Popular music and music education in the GDR. Research - teaching - evaluation. Wißner, Augsburg 1997 (conference report with H. Reszel), ISBN 3-89639-071-6 .
  • Music theme: film music. Klett, Stuttgart 2001. Extended and updated new edition: ibid. 2012 (with media package: DVD, 2 CDs), ISBN 978-3-12-178956-6 .
  • Applause: film music. Klett, Stuttgart 2002 (notes with J. Arndt, H. Reszel), ISBN 3-12-177890-0 .
  • The music film. A manual for educational practice. Schott, Mainz 2008 (with A. Schudack), ISBN 978-3-7957-0597-8 .
  • Songs Unlimited. Klett / Schott: Stuttgart / Mainz 2008 (Songbook with J. Arndt, H. Reszel), ISBN 978-3-12-182911-8 .
  • Robert Schumann for the youth. Schott, Mainz 2008 (conference report with C. Rora, Chr. Wallbaum), ISBN 978-3-7957-0180-2 .
  • Dreiklang 5/6, 7/8, 9/10, secondary level II. Volk und Wissen / Cornelsen, Berlin 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016 (textbook published with I. Mainz).
  • Trojozynk - Hudzba 5/6, 7/8, 9/10. Domowina, Bautzen 2010, 2012, 2014 (Sorbian translation of Dreiklang).
  • Music lessons today 8: Between rock classics and ephemera - 50 years of popular music in school. Lugert, Handorf 2010 (conference report with J. Terhag), ISBN 978-3-89760-367-7 .

Web links

Commons : Georg Maas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G.Tulodziecki, S.Grafe, B.Herzig: Design-oriented educational research and didactics. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. 2013, pp. 116–126.
  2. ↑ Maas in Maas & Schudack 1994, p. 35ff.
  3. ↑ Maas in Maas & Schudack 1994, p. 39.
  4. ↑ Campus Halensis (accessed on July 5, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Maas, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg