Public course offered by the University of Music and Theatre Munich
- Lecturers: Dr. Julin Lee & Dr. Tobias Reichard
- Contributors: Stephan Axtner, Mona Manoocheri, Julia Pauli, Anika Pavicevic, Annika Elsäßer
- Lessons: 9 units
- Time required: ca. 10-45 minutes
- Qualifications: none
- German Version: click here
Handbook description The ability to critically examine musical issues is essential for careers in the music industry and beyond, opening broad prospects in various sectors. From improving your ensemble’s website, producing concert program notes or CD liner notes to tackling ambitious writing projects, it is always crucial to be able to make well-founded statements on the subject of music.
This seminar serves to impart valuable, transferable research skills and (musicological) scholarly working methods. Most crucially for your studies, this seminar provides step-by-step instructions and guidance for completing written assignments that meet the necessary scholarly criteria required for obtaining a university degree. Discipline-specific research methods in historical and systematic musicology, ethnomusicology and music education are not covered here.
The handbook was developed bilingually in German and English together with the course participants of the HMTM seminar “Praxishandbuch ‘Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten’” (WiSe 23-24).
Summary of the seminar gains:
- Knowledge of thorough research techniques in library catalogs and databases
- Critical engagement with primary sources and research literature
- Familiarity with the steps involved in writing an academic paper: from developing a research question to academic reading and writing strategies and formal guidelines
Summary of the seminar content:
- Introduction to scholarly work
- Finding a topic and formulating research questions
- Primary sources and secondary literature
- Research techniques in library catalogs and digital databases
- Strategies for academic reading and writing
- Scholarly documentation and formal design
Suggestions, feedback or ideas? Then send us an email to musikwissenschaft@hmtm.de!
