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David Yearsley and Annette Richards (Cornell University) on their project for Cambridge University Press: a new history of the organ. Since the organ’s invention in Antiquity, the instrument has been at the forefront of musical, visual, and technological innovation. Its historiography has generally

Experiencing Music - Exploring Music Strategy Paper of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung 2023 to 2028 Prerequisites Music is a human form of expression and communication that transcends boundaries and times, and it is in a constant state of technical, aesthetic, and social change. Music id

Music theory Music theory is one of the main fields of research pursued at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research). After careful planning and thorough discussion, the “History of Music Theory” project was created to provide a formal, long-term context for st

With music ethnologist Dr Juan Bermúdez (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) As has been observed with the introduction of new technologies in the past, digitalisation has profoundly transformed the way in which music and dance are created, transmitted and experienced, thereby profoundly a

On International Museum Day, Hammond organ specialist Peter Becker will be hosting three workshops to introduce participants to the instrument’s technology and playing techniques. Hammond organ, built between 1965 and 1975, cat. no. 5444. Photo: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn Peter Becker has been research

The advent of electronics opened up new potentials for concepts concerning musical instruments, changing long-established perspectives and revolutionizing some cantuies-old traditions. This volue takes up current research topics and addresses perspectives and challenges of collection related tasks c

Conference, 3-5th July 2024. Workshop on "Instrument making in East and West: Olga Adelmann and Curt Jung with a resonating excursion to India" on 4 July from 9 am to 12.30 pm at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. From 3 to 5 July, a conference on "Cosmopolitan, i

Schönberg24 "Schönberg is dead", composer and conductor Pierre Boulez proclaimed in 1951. Despite such prophecies of doom, Schönberg's compositional and theoretical work continues to attract a great deal of attention from performers, contemporary composers, and audiences alike. In three series of ev

Dr. Sydney Hutchinson Research Associate CV Since November 2025: Research Associate at the State Institute for Music Research 2020-2025: Research assistant at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Popular Music Studies 2019-2020: Substitute professor for eth

Multiperspectivity On the Nature of Research at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (SIM) is the largest non-university research institution for musicology in Germany. The Institute encompasses a library and a musical instruments museum. The coexist