Kurt Reinhard (musicologist)

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Kurt Reinhard (27 August 1914 – 18 July 1979) was a German musicologist and ethnomusicologist who specialised in Turkish music.[1]

Born in Gießen, Germany, he studied musicology and composition at the University of Cologne from 1933 to 1935, and ethnology at the Universities of Leipzig and Munich from 1935-1936. He took his doctorate at Munich doing his dissertation on Burmese music. In 1952–1968, he was a director of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv.

His chief area of interest in the field of ethnomusicology was the folk music of Turkey.[1]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Types of Turkmenian Songs in Turkey, Journal of the International Folk Music Council 9, 1956
  • On the problem of pre-pentatonic scales: particularly the third-second nucleus, Journal of the International Folk Music Council 10, 1958
  • Türkische Musik, Berlin, 1962
  • "Türkische Musik", in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1966
  • Musique de Turquie (in French, with Ursula Reinhard), Buchet/Chastel (Paris), 1996

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Ziegler, Susanne (2019). "Historical Sources of Turkish Music in Berlin: The Kurt Reinhard Collections in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv". Musicologist. 3: 58–76.