Research groups
Research groups at the Department of Music
An overview of the excisting research groups at NTNU Department of music with focus areas.
Artistic research group at IMU
Artistic research is central at IMU in our programs for music performance and music technology. Our research fellows in artistic research are admitted to the cross-faculty programme in artistic research, PHKunst, which is a collaboration between the faculties of humanities and architecture, art and design respectively. The areas that are researched are in particular experimental music, jazz, improvisation, interpretation, composition and music technology.
Project leaders/supervisors: Michael Duch, Tone Åse, Øyvind Brandtseg and Heather Frasch
Instrumental and Ensemble Teaching (FIVE)
Leaders: Marianne Baudouin Lie and Elin Angelo
The research group FIVE focuses on instrumental, vocal, and ensemble teaching at all levels. This includes beginner instruction in music and arts schools, participation in community music groups, advanced performer training in secondary schools, music and arts schools, churches, and teaching in higher music education. Participants in the research group examine various approaches to performer training, the relationship between personal performance and teaching, collective work within and about performer education, practice and motivation, repertoire and learning materials, diversity and power relations, professional identities, as well as the significance of different subjects in performer education. FIVE regularly holds seminars where we present, respond to, and discuss scientific and artistic music pedagogical work in progress. We organize mid-term and final seminars for master's and doctoral students and collaborate on major applications.
FIVE is an open and supportive community dedicated to enhancing the academic and research environment related to instrumental, vocal, and ensemble teaching in the Department of Music. Contact the research group leader to join the group.
Read more about research group for Instrumental and Ensemble Teaching (FIVE)
Women, Opera and the Public Stage in Eighteenth-Century Venice (WoVen)
The interdisciplinary project ‘Women, Opera and the Public Stage in Eighteenth-Century Venice’ (WoVen) brings together a research team dedicated to reimagining the links between women and European operatic culture in the eighteenth century.
WoVen explores the role of operatic women in the construction, representation, and reception of models for women in the eighteenth century. The project contextualizes the activities of female performers, composers, authors, theatre managers, patrons, and audience members within wider contemporary critical discourses about women’s education and place in society.
Project leader Melania Bucciarelli
Read more about Women, Opera and the Public Stage in Eighteenth-Century Venice (WoVen)
Poetics of Space
Spatiality and site-specific art is at the core of this project; investigating sound, art and architecture in relation to its performance- and/or exhibition space, as well as other possible relations between art and spaces. In better understanding and learn from these relations, we have included a broad interdisciplinary group of artistic researchers that involve most aspects of art practices at NTNU; including music, film and media studies (Faculty of Humanities) and architecture, design and visual arts (Faculty of Architecture and Design).
The title is borrowed from the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s book first published in 1958; a poetic investigation of domestic intimate spaces. In this project we wish to investigate the following areas:
- Buildings and physical spaces that are either constructed for performance and/or exhibitions, that can be used for the same purpose or are to be considered as art in itself.
- Outdoor spaces that are either designed for or can be used in relation to performance, exhibitions or are to be considered as art in its own right. These spaces might be outdoor stages, gardens or marine environments.
- Micro spaces and environments. The space inside a musical instrument such as a violin, a matchbox or a ship inside a bottle.
- Digital, non-physical and imaginary spaces. These spaces might be recordings of sound and/or image, poetic spaces in literature.
- Spaces for health and wellbeing. Immersive art spaces that deals with health challenges.
Michael Duch (project leader)
Research Group in Musicology/Ethnomusicology
The Research Group in Musicology/Ethnomusicology includes Melania Bucciarelli, Roman Hankeln, Thomas Hilder, John Howland, Nora Bilalovic Kulset, and Tore Størvold, and Tone Åse.
The group’s research spans topics from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century with specializations in:
- Western cultivated/concert music: Italian opera and musical theatre; medieval liturgical vocal music; and German Lieder.
- Popular music, jazz studies, and music in media
- Music, culture, identity: feminist, queer, postcolonial perspectives
- Music and the social sciences (cognition, psychology, health)
- Community music, well-being, and applied methods
- Ecomusicology and music in the environmental humanities
- Artistic research