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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

Location and directions The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz is part of the "Kulturforum Berlin", an area of urban development between the Landwehr Canal, Großer Tiergarten and Potsdamer Platz in the Tiergarten quarter of Berlin Mitte. The Institute is located in the l

Terms of use The library of the State Institute for Music Research is a specialized scientific library, whose primary purpose is to support the scientists of the Institute in their work. However, it is also open to external users. Reading room of the SIMPK library. Photo: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn We

Holdings and focal points The focus of our collecting and research activities is aligned with the projects conducted at the Institute on music history, music theory, instrumentology, and systematic musicology. Photocopy collection of the SIMPK. Reprography of musical sources produced between 1917 an

Declaration on Accessibility Declaration on Accessibility This declaration on accessibility applies to the website of the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research) published at www.simpk.de. Als öffentliche Stelle im Sinne der Richtlinie (EU) 2016/2102 sind wir bemü

Press The press office of the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung provides information about the Institute's research projects as well as events and exhibitions of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum. Please direct requests for interviews or event information to press contact . If you would like to rece

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Data privacy The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (SIM) as a legally dependent institution of the Stiftung Reußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) is committed to handling your personal data in a responsible way and to maintaining transparency about its use. The fo

Systematic Musicology The papers listed here in the area of Systematic Musicology deal not only with the Institute's main topics such as music perception, music transmission, and interpretation, but also with music sociology and methodological topics. Maempel, Hans-Joachim (in press): "Audiobearbeit

Music Perception At the SIM, experimental studies of questions involving the perception of music are a tradition that goes back to Hans-Peter Reinecke, the founder of Department III (then named the Department of Acoustics and Music Psychology) and later the institute’s director. Reinecke examined di