Benutzer:DörteDasSchaf/Tihomir Popović
Tihomir Popović (Serbian: Тихомир Поповић, born 11 July 1974 in Belgrade) is a Serbian-German musicologist, music theorist and musician whose main research interests are the history of compositional techniques, social history of music, music theory and analysis. He is professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and lecturer at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.
Biography
Popović began his career as a pianist in former Yugoslavia. He then studied music at the Hanover University of Music and Drama, where he received his first degrees. His piano professor was Bernd Goetzke, a pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Popović also studied composition in Hanover with Ladislav Kupkovič. He continued his studies with Hermann Danuser at the Humboldt University of Berlin, receiving his D.Phil. degree in musicology in 2013. Popović then worked on his habilitation (post-doctoral project) and received the venia legendi (habilitation degree) in musicology from the Humboldt University in 2018.
In 2001 Popović began teaching music theory at the Hanover University of Music and Drama where he is still a lecturer. He taught music theory at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences (2009-2012), serving also as head of the Department for Composition, Music Theory and Aural Training (2012). In 2012 and 2017/2018 Popović lectured at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was elected lecturer in music theory and history at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in 2012, becoming professor in 2014. During 2019/2020 he was a member of the Senior Common Room of Wadham College, University of Oxford.
Between 1999 and 2012 Popović worked in various capacities for the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Research
Popović´s interdisciplinary research centres on Western music, and music theory of the sixteenth to nineteenth centurie
s. He holds the position that, as music is a product of human culture, its analysis should be enriched by collaborating with humanities and social sciences. His research work is thus not only inspired by, but also substantially connected with methods of contemporary sociology, history, philosophy, and literary studies. In his studies of early English keyboard music, Popović demonstrates the connections between changes in 16th-century society and those in compositional techniques[1]. In his research on the image of India in 19th-century British music, he establishes links between colonial discourse, composing and writings about music[ii].
References
[i] https://books.google.de/books/about/M%C3%A4zene_Manuskripte_Modi.html?id=pKS2NAEACAAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y
[ii] http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/61132.html
