Veranstaltungen von Natasha Loges

This seminar explores pianistic careers during the 20th century with a focus on women throughout the world. Since well before the establishment of conservatoires, women pianists have outnumbered men. With the establishing of colonies and the global dispersal of pianos, women outside Europe/USA also used the piano as a means to develop self-expression, independent careers and incomes, often against societal expectations.

This class explores figures ranging from China to Brazil, including the first generation of Chinese women pianists, pianists from Taiwan, pianism in Turkey, Egypt and Ethiopia; women pianists in Communist countries in Eastern Europe; pianist-wives such as Yvonne Loriod, Messiaen’s wife; specialists in contemporary music from Germany and Austria; and women pianists during National Socialism. It will examine the music these women composed, their repertoires and interpretation styles, and their career trajectories. This class will be relevant to anyone interested in 20th-century global music, gender and the piano.

The seminar takes place weekly 4-6pm Wednesday Room 101.

This class is aimed at doctoral and Masters students who wish to survey and discuss latest developments in scholarship and to develop a strong research basis for their PhD work. The course content includes:

1. Exploring recent music scholarship in various formats, from a wide range of perspectives including künstlerische Forschung / practice research
2. Undertaking a thorough review of literature, including in non-verbal formats
3. Devising innovative and open-minded research methodologies
4. Practising scholarly writing by sharing our work-in-progress, with a focus on developing confidence and clarity
5. Sharing constructive feedback with each other
6. Writing conference abstracts and giving a conference paper
7. Developing strategies on how to plan work and organise time effectively

Languages of instruction are English and German.

The class takes place online at 3-5pm on Tuesdays.

Artistic research, or practice research, is a long-established scholarly discipline, although it is becoming increasingly widespread in Germany. Artistic research trains you, as a musician, to understand and reflect upon your own artistry. This course introduces you to a wide range of research methods to gain different kinds of knowledge. It is a good preparation for future doctoral study.

We will cover the following:

1. What is a musician’s knowledge?
2. How can we observe and analyse the knowledge in our performances?
3. How can we use research to inspire new forms of creativity?
4. How can we integrate artistic research with traditional modes of research, so as to reach the widest audience?
5. How can we present artistic research effectively?

The class takes place weekly at 2-4pm on Wednesday in Room 101. Online supervision as necessary. Please email n.loges@mh-freiburg.de to register interest.

Als »Einführung in die Musikwissenschaft« (Modul Musikwissenschaft 1) können Sie wählen zwischen folgenden Vorlesungen:

• »Understanding 19th-Century European Music through Pauline Viardot« (Prof. Loges) Glarean-Link
• »Systematische Musikwissenschaft: Entwicklungen, Theorien und Positionen« (Prof. Wöllner). Glarean-Link

Bitte  melden Sie sich für eine der Veranstaltungen an. Am Semesterende schreiben Sie eine Klausur.

Im gemeinsamen musikwissenschaftlichen Kolloquium zwischen der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg und der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg stellen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissensschaftler sowie fortgeschrittene Studierende (Promovierende, Examenskandidatinnen und Examenskandidaten) sowie auswärtige Gäste ihre aktuellen Forschungen vor. Das Themenspektrum reicht von musikhistorischen, systematischen, musikethnologischen Bereichen des Fachs bis hin zu Fragen der Musikästhetik und Popularmusikforschung. 

This lecture series takes you through the history of 19th-century music through the career and experiences of the singer, composer and pedagogue Pauline Viardot. She collaborated closely with many canonical figures including Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Meyerbeer, Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz, the Schumanns, Brahms, Fauré, and Massenet. A superb musician, she advised closely on the creation of many successful works for the concert stage and theatre. Her own compositions were fundamental to the creation of European musical culture from Russia to Spain. Her superb voice, her ability to sight-read orchestral scores at the piano, and to speak six languages made her centrally important to many male creators.

Exploring Viardot's legacy allows us to:

• consider music beyond narrow national boundaries
• rethink composition as a collaborative activity
• reassess the significance of arrangement and translation in repertoire transfer
• learn how opera and concert life worked
• understand the possibilities and limits available to 19th-century musical women.

This class will be relevant to anyone interested in opera, song, chamber music, piano music and gender.

Lectures take place weekly at 12-2pm on Tuesday in the Lecture Hall Room 1119 in the Musikwissenschaft Seminar, University of Freiburg.

This class can be taken for Einfuehrung in die Musikwissenschaft with an exam (Klausur).