Music history in pictures

Music history in pictures is a music history and music ethnology series founded by Heinrich Besseler and Max Schneider , which was most recently published by the musicologist Werner Bachmann. The individual volumes have been published by the Deutsches Verlag für Musik in Leipzig since 1961 . The series was discontinued after the end of the GDR . The series of publications was under the patronage of the UNESCO Commission of the German Democratic Republic . The volume on East Asia ( China , Korea and Japan ), for example, was no longer published. Further editions of some volumes appeared. The entire series is divided into four sub-series: 1. Ethnic music , 2. Ancient music , 3. Medieval and Renaissance music , 4. Modern music . The volumes appeared in separate deliveries. Numerous renowned scholars have contributed to the series.

Overview (incomplete)

1.1 Oceania. Paul Collaer . 1974, 2nd ed.
1.2 America. Eskimo and Native American people. Paul Collaer. 1980, 2nd edition / 1st edition 1967
1.3 Southeast Asia. Paul Collaer. 1979
1.4 South Asia. Alain Daniélou . 1978, 1st ed.
1.5 Did not appear
1.6 Did not appear
1.7 Did not appear
1.8 North Africa. Paul Collaer. 1983, 1st edition
1.9 Central Africa. Jos Gansemans; Barbara Schmidt-Wrenger. 1986
1.10 East Africa. Gerhard Kubik . 1982
1.11 West Africa. Gerhard Kubik. 1989

2.1 Egypt. Hans Hickmann . 1975, 2nd edition / 1961
2.2 Mesopotamia. Ṣubḥī Anwar Rašīd . 1984, 1st ed.
2,3 Not appeared
2.4 Greece. Max Wegner . 1986, 3rd edition / 1963
2.5 Etruria and Rome. Günter Fleischhauer . [1978], 2nd, supplementary edition / 1964
2.6 Did not appear
2.7 Ancient America: Music of the Indians in pre-Columbian times. Samuel Martí , 1985, 2nd edition / 1970
2.8 ancient India. Walter Kaufmann . 1981, 1st ed.
2.9 Central Asia. Fajsulla M. Karomatov , 1987, 1st ed.

3.2 Islam. Henry George Farmer . 1989, 3rd ed. / 1976, 2nd ed.
3.3 Music education. Joseph Smits van Waesberghe , 1986, 2nd, through. Ed.
3.4 Typeface of unanimous music. Bruno Stäblein . 1984, 2nd edition / 1975, 1st edition
3.5 Typeface of polyphonic music. Heinrich Besseler . 1981, 2nd edition / 1973, 1st edition
3.6 Did not appear
3.7 Did not appear
3.8 Musical life in the 15th century. Edmund Addison Bowles , 1987, 2nd ed. / 1977, 1st ed.
3.9 Musical life in the 16th century. Walter Salmen . 1983, 2nd edition / 1976, 1st edition

4.1 Opera: scene and representation from 1600 to 1900. Hellmuth Christian Wolff . 1985, 3rd edition / 1979, 2nd, through. Ed. / 1968
4.2 concert. Public musical performance from the 17th to 19th centuries. Heinrich W. Schwab , 1980, 2nd, through. Ed. / 1971
4.3 House and chamber music. Private music making in times of social change between 1600 and 1900. Walter Salmen. 1969/1982, 2nd edition
4.4 Dance in the 17th and 18th centuries. Walter Salmen. 1988, 1st ed.
4.5 dance in the 19th century. Walter Salmen. 1989, 1st edition

Ute Lemm : Musicology in West Germany after 1945. Analyzes and interpretations of discursive constellations . Univ. Diss., Bonn 2005 ( full text )
Christiane Wiesenfeldt : The Hero's Workshop (FAZ.net March 11, 2018)