Gesine Schröder (music theorist)

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Gesine Catharina Magdalene Schröder (* 1957 in Wilster ) is a German musicologist and music theorist .

Life

From 1976 Gesine Schröder studied music education , cello , composition / music theory and aural training with improvisation at the Berlin University of the Arts , a. a. with Christian Möllers and Hartmut Fladt , as well as German and musicology at the Free University and the Technical University of Berlin with Rudolf Stephan and Carl Dahlhaus . Between 1985 and 1991 she worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the University of the Arts and from 1991–1992 at the Hanns Eisler University of Music .

She did her doctorate in 1990 with Elmar Budde on Stravinski's instrumental writing styles around 1920. For her doctorate, she received the Joachim Tiburtius Award.

In 1992 she followed a call to the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . Since 2012 she has also been teaching at the Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . From 2012 to 2016 she was President of the Society for Music Theory .

Schröder researches counterpoint around 1600, new music , the theory of rhythm and meter , orchestration , gender issues, especially male choirs , as well as the history of music theory in Eastern European countries and China .

Gesine Schröder is the daughter of bryologist Wiebke Schröder and mother of a daughter (* 1991) and two sons (* 1993 and 1996).

Fonts

  • Cadenza and Concerto: Studies on Igor Stravinsky's instrumentalism around 1920. Studio, Cologne 1996.

As editor

  • with Werner Grünzweig , Martin Supper : Schnebel 60. Wolke, Hofheim 1990.
  • Tempus musicæ - tempus mundi: Studies on Seth Calvisius. Olms, Hildesheim 2008.
  • Rhythmics and metrics (= basics of music. Volume 6). Laaber, Laaber 2016.
  • Johann Nepomuk David. Lines and interruptions (= writings - University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Volume 11). Olms, Hildesheim 2016 ( online , PDF)
  • Hiking trails. Music theories and theories of composition in and from China. ZAEB special edition 2017. Report on three symposia on the project “The Cultural Transfer of Central European Music Theory to China”. In: Journal of aesthetic education. 9/2017 ( online )

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