Norbert Jers (born 1947) is a German

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

Life

Born in

Aachen Aachen is the List of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by population, 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants. Aachen is locat ...

, Jers completed a practical musical education in piano and choir conducting. He then studied

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

and

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

at the University of Cologne. He gained his first professional experience at the WDR and the Arno Volk publishing house in Cologne. In addition, he worked as a freelancer in high schools, at the adult education centre and in the record industry and church choir direction. From 1980 to 1983 Jers was a lecturer at the Episcopal Academy of the Diocese of Aachen. This was followed by a professorship for music pedagogy at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1989 to 1993 he was head of department and dean at the Catholic University of St. Gregorius Church Music in

. From 2000 to 2007 he had a teaching assignment for musicology at the same university. Jers' musicological treatises provide the reader with a comprehensive insight into the music history of the

Rhineland The Rhineland ( ; ; ; ) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly Middle Rhine, its middle section. It is the main industrial heartland of Germany because of its many factories, and it has historic ties to the Holy ...

Publications

* ''Musik – Kultur – Gesellschaft. Interdisziplinäre Aspekte aus der Musikgeschichte des Rheinlands''. Verlag Merseburger, Kassel * ''Musikalische Regionalforschung heute – Perspektiven rheinischer Musikgeschichtsschreibung''.''Musikalische Regionalforschung heute – Perspektiven rheinischer Musikgeschichtsschreibung''
on WorldCat Verlag Merseburger, Kassel

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Norbert Jers
on Verlag Merseburger * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jers, Norbert 20th-century German musicologists 1947 births Living people People from Aachen