Kurt Reinhard (27 August 1914 – 18 July 1979) was a German

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

and

ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dim ...

who specialised in Turkish music. Born in

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, he studied musicology and composition at the

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from 1933 to 1935, and

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at the Universities of

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and

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from 1935-1936. He took his

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doing his dissertation on Burmese music. In 1952–1968 he was a director of the

Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv The Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv is a collection of ethnomusicological recordings or world music, mostly on phonographic cylinders, assembled since 1900 in Berlin, Germany by the institution of the same name. The collection The project was initi ...

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

Partial bibliography

*''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 German ethnomusicologists 1914 births 1979 deaths Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni 20th-century German musicologists {{Germany-ethnomusicologist-stub