Modern Languages for Musicologists

German for Musicologists, 2010/11

Tutor: Dr Monika Hennemann (University of Birmingham)
Dates: 13 - 15 December 2010; 19 - 21 January 2011

(10am - 5pm on each day)

This intensive reading course is intended for postgraduate students and early-career researchers. Students will develop reading and comprehension skills that are vital for research on German music and music history. The course centres on the following thematic areas:

• primary sources (correspondence, administrative accounts, reviews)
• secondary literature in music history and theory
• words & music (librettos, poetry)
• special techniques (Gothic script, palaeography, working with library catalogues and critical commentaries, academic correspondence, publishing in German).

Moderate reading knowledge of German is a requirement. 

The following textbooks are recommended for students wishing to prepare for the course:

Hilke Dreyer and Richard Schmitt, Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik - aktuell (Hueber/Perfect Paperback, 2009)

£19.60

(English version forthcoming under the title A Practice Grammar of German)

Waltraud Coles and Bill Dodd, Reading German: A Course Book and Reference Grammar (Oxford: OUP Paperback, 1997)

£31.00

The course is designed as an integral whole and cannot be attended piecemeal.

The course is free of charge.

Heads of Department will be nominating postgraduate students and early career researchers for this course. The closing date for nominations will be 15 October 2010. There are a maximum of 15 places on the course.