Dr. Jo Wilhelm Siebert - Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Curriculum vitae
 

2000-2009 Studies in Musicology, Philosophy and Comparative Literature (MA) at the Technical University of Berlin

2003/2004 Studies (Musicology) at Royal Holloway College, University of London

2.2009 to 1.2011 Research Assistant at the State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage Berlin (SIM, Department of Music Theory and Music History)

7.2011-9.2012 Collaboration in the DFG project to expand the Virtual Library of Musicology at SIM (editing the digitalised version and the source register of the Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie)

10.2014 Doctorate at the Department of Musicology at TU Berlin with a source-oriented, analytical study of Peter Maxwell Davies' orchestral work Worldes Blis op. 38

since 11.2015 Lecturer at SIM (Department of Music Theory and Music History), where he has also been responsible for Open Science since 2023

since 2013 Freelance book designer and typographer

Publications
 

Monograph

• Peter Maxwell Davies' Consciousness of Tradition. Analytical contributions to Worldes Blis, Hanover 2015

Editorships

• Yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research 2023: Ligeti - Interpretation | Space (together with Simone Hohmaier and Heinz von Loesch): https://doi.org/10.71046/simjb.2023
• Music Theory 2019, Issue 4: Modernism in British Music since 1955, Laaber 2019
• Heinrich Christoph Koch: Versuch einer Anleitung zur Composition [1782-1793], study edition, Hanover 2007

Book chapters, essays, articles

• Reflections on instrumental ornamentation practice in the 20th and 21st centuries, in: Geschichte der musikalischen Interpretation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Vol. 3: Parameter - Aspekte, ed. by Heinz von Loesch, Rebecca Wolf and Thomas Ertelt, Kassel 2022, pp. 322-344
• Dynamics, in: History of Musical Interpretation in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Vol. 3: Parameters - Aspects, edited by Heinz von Loesch, Rebecca Wolf and Thomas Ertelt, Kassel 2022, pp. 500-552
• Technical Media II: Reception of Recordings, in: History of Musical Interpretation in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Vol. 2: Institutions - Media, ed. by Thomas Ertelt and Heinz von Loesch, Kassel 2021, pp. 180-209
• The analytical fragment Formal Principles in "Prolation" by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commentary on the German translation, in: Musiktheorie 2019, Issue 4: Moderne in der britischen Musik seit 1955, pp. 321-332 (see below under "Translations")
• Herbert Eimert: Lehrbuch der Zwölftontechnik, in: Lexikon Schriften über Musik, vol. 1: Musiktheorie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, edited by Ullrich Scheideler and Felix Wörner, Kassel 2017, pp. 126-127
• Hanns Jelinek: Anleitung zur Zwölftonkomposition, in: Lexikon Schriften über Musik, vol. 1: Musiktheorie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, edited by Ullrich Scheideler and Felix Wörner, Kassel 2017, pp. 237-238
• Josef Rufer: Die Komposition mit zwölf Tönen, in: Lexikon Schriften über Musik, vol. 1: Musiktheorie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, edited by Ullrich Scheideler and Felix Wörner, Kassel 2017, pp. 435-437
• Erwin Stein: Form and Performance, in: Lexikon Schriften über Musik, vol. 1: Musiktheorie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, edited by Ullrich Scheideler and Felix Wörner, Kassel 2017, pp. 472-474
• The Five Pieces for Piano op. 2 by Peter Maxwell Davies in the context of BBC programming in the 1950s, in: Jahrbuch des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung 2011, ed. by Simone Hohmaier, Mainz 2011, pp. 9-23
• Genius, in: Lexikon der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft. Musikästhetik - Musiktheorie - Musikpsychologie - Musiksoziologie, ed. by Helga de la Motte-Haber, Heinz von Loesch, Günther Rötter and Christian Utz (= Handbuch der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft, vol. 6), Laaber 2010, pp. 149-151
• Improvisation, in: Dictionary of Systematic Musicology. Musikästhetik - Musiktheorie - Musikpsychologie - Musiksoziologie, ed. by Helga de la Motte-Haber, Heinz von Loesch, Günther Rötter and Christian Utz (= Handbuch der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft, vol. 6), Laaber 2010, pp. 186-187
• Kunstreligion, in: Lexikon der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft. Musikästhetik - Musiktheorie - Musikpsychologie - Musiksoziologie, ed. by Helga de la Motte-Haber, Heinz von Loesch, Günther Rötter and Christian Utz (= Handbuch der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft, vol. 6), Laaber 2010, pp. 256-257
• Spiel, in: Dictionary of Systematic Musicology. Musikästhetik - Musiktheorie - Musikpsychologie - Musiksoziologie, ed. by Helga de la Motte-Haber, Heinz von Loesch, Günther Rötter and Christian Utz (= Handbuch der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft, vol. 6), Laaber 2010, pp. 444-445.
• Peter Maxwell Davies, in: Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG), in preparation

Translations

• Clive Brown: Phrasing in the 19th century, in: Geschichte der musikalischen Interpretation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Vol. 3: Parameter - Aspekte, ed. by Heinz von Loesch, Rebecca Wolf and Thomas Ertelt, Kassel 2022, pp. 553-591
• Clive Brown: Vibrato and Portamento, in: History of Musical Interpretation in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Vol. 3: Parameters - Aspects, ed. by Heinz von Loesch, Rebecca Wolf and Thomas Ertelt, Kassel 2022, pp. 609-666
• Peter Maxwell Davies: Formal Principles in Prolation for Orchestra, in: Music Theory 2019, Issue 4: Modernism in British Music since 1955, pp. 333-346

Interpretation research;
Music history, theory and aesthetics of the 20th and 21st centuries;
Music in Great Britain since 1900