Church musician (''Kirchenmusiker'') is a music profession in Germany.
At present there are about 3,600 main job and 25,000 second job church musicians in the Protestant and Catholic Church in Germany.
There are four different degrees of examination: A, B, C and D. A and B requires a study at a music college or a university (
Master of Arts
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,
Bachelor of Arts
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) . Church musicians with C and D are trained mostly by main job church musicians. The study of A takes about 12
semester and B 8 semester.
Subjects of education are
organ,
improvising,
piano
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,
singing
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,
conducting,
ear training
Ear training or aural skills is a music theory study in which musicians learn to identify pitches, intervals, melody, chords, rhythms, solfeges, and other basic elements of music, solely by hearing. The application of this skill is analogous t ...
,
composition
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Arts and literature
* Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography
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,
score
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*Test score, the result of an exam or test
Business
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* Score Media, a former Canadian m ...
reading and
figured bass
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,
liturgics
Liturgics, also called liturgical studies or liturgiology, is the academic discipline dedicated to the study of liturgy
Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. ''Liturgy'' can also be used to refer sp ...
,
hymnology
Hymnology (from Greek ὕμνος ''hymnos'', "song of praise" and -λογία ''-logia'', "study of") is the scholarly study of religious song, or the hymn, in its many aspects, with particular focus on choral and congregational song. It may be mo ...
,
music history
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In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history ...
, organology.
Music colleges for church music (Hochschulen für Kirchenmusik)
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Bayreuth – ''Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Bayreuth''
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Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
– ''Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Dresden''
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Görlitz
Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and is the largest town in Upper Lusa ...
– ''Hochschule für Kirchenmusik der Evangelischen Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg - schlesische Oberlausitz''
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Halle (Saale)
Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-An ...
– ''
Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle''
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Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
– ''
Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg''
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Herford
Herford (; nds, Hiarwede) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the lowlands between the hill chains of the Wiehen Hills and the Teutoburg Forest. It is the capital of the district of Herford.
Geography
Geographic locatio ...
– ''Hochschule für Kirchenmusik der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen''
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München
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– ''Hochschule für Musik und Theater München''
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Regensburg – ''Hochschule für Katholische Kirchenmusik und Musikpädagogik Regensburg''
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Rottenburg am Neckar
Rottenburg am Neckar (; until 10 July 1964 only ''Rottenburg''; Swabian: ''Raodaburg'') is a medium-sized town in the administrative district (''Landkreis'') of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It lies about 50 kilometres (31 miles) s ...
– ''Katholische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Rottenburg''
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Stuttgart - ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart''
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Tübingen
Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in thre ...
– ''Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Tübingen''
References
*''Beruf und Aufgaben der Evangelischen Kirchenmusikerinnen und Kirchenmusiker'', edited by the ''Verband Evangelischer Kirchenmusikerinnen und Kirchenmusiker in Deutschland'' 1996, new edition 2011
External links
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