Research Award Winner at the University of Paderborn Presents Results
In classical music, editions are considered the basis of scholarly study of music. Unlike classical music, however, pop music is not composed on music paper, but in audio data. The substance of pop music is its sound. Rebecca Grotjahn, professor at the Department of Musicology at the University of Paderborn and the Detmold University of Music, is investigating how this can be edited as so-called -phonographic- music. In 2020, Grotjahn received the university’s 150,000-euro research award for her project to develop a new practice that enables the edition of popular music in the auditory medium. ...
