Supervisors at the Anton Bruckner Private University

Institute for Early Music and Historical Performance Practice

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Historically informed performance practice with a specialisation in basso continuo

Contact: Univ. Prof.in  Dr.in Dragosits, Anne Marie (Harpsichord)
Email: annemarie.dragositsbruckneruniat

Topic areas for dissertations:

• 1660–1850: Historical performance practice with a particular specialisation in melodic instruments

Contact: Univ. Doz.in  Dr.in Genewein, Claire (Flute)
Email: claire.geneweinbruckneruniat

Institute of Dance Arts (IDA)

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Labanotation
• Scores and movement compositions
• Movement Research as choreographic praxis
• Improvisation techniques
• Philosophical foundations of somatic in the twentieth century
• The staging of notated dance repertoires
• Austrian expressive dance
• Postmodern choreography

Contact: Univ. Prof. in Breuss, Rose
rose.breussbruckneruniat

Institute for Composition, Conducting and Computer Music

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Extended Composition
• Compositions for specific places, landscapes, and situations
• Synchronicity and asynchronicity in contemporary music theatre
• Composed body movement
• Perspectives of composition at the intersection with sound art
• Sound theatre [Hörtheater] and acoustic art

Contact: Univ. Prof. in: Bauckholt, Carola
Email: carola.bauckholtbruckneruniat

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Electro-acoustic composition, digital music
• Compositional praxes in their medial contexts
• Sonic art/audible art

Contact: Univ. Prof. Klien, Volkmar, PhD
Email: volkmar.klienbruckneruniat

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Composition – electro-acoustic, algorithmic, instrumental
• Computer music – real time processes, time-based (real time / non-real time)
• Audio-visual composition – Picture and sound
• Interactivity and MaxMspJitter programming: audio, video, algorithms, sensors, interactive scores, data mapping
• International networking in the field of computer music and sonic arts 
• The computer as instrument – Performance
• Multi-channel audio techniques – distribution in the space, sound movement
• Improvisation – contemporary at the intersection of improvisation, composition and computer calculations in real time
• Music and media technology

Contact: Ao. Univ. Prof. Weixler, Andreas
Email: andreas.weixlerbruckneruniat

Institute for Theory and History (Applied Psychology)

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Precision in the high-performance area from psychological or physiological perspectives
• Performance anxiety: causes, symptoms, and coping strategies
• Neurological, clinical psychological, and neuropsychological approaches to practice

Contact: Univ. Doz. Dr. Rainer Holzinger
Email: rainer.holzingerbruckneruniat

Institute for Theory und History (Artistic Research and Performance Related Interpretation Research)

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Instrumental Performance Studies
• Performance practice in contemporary music and multimedia
• Interdisciplinary inquiry into the composer-performer-audience relationship(Collaboration, participatory art, charisma)
• Artistic research
• Impact of game elements in multimedia art

Contact: Univ. Prof.in Dr.in Barbara Lüneburg
Email: barbara.lueneburgbruckneruniat

barbara.lueneburgbruckneruniat

Institute of Dance Arts (IDA)

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Stories and theories of dance in European and non-European show dance
• Performance theories
• Historical and current und praxeologies of dance
• Intermedialities, notations, dance scores

Contact: Univ. Prof. in Dr.in Claudia Jeschke
Email: claudia.jeschkebruckneruniat

Institute for Music Pedagogy

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Musical education at the primary level
• Fields of work and cooperative projects of elementary music pedagogy
• Empirical music-pedagogy research designs

Contact: Univ. Prof.in Aicher, Linda, PhD
Email: linda.aicherbruckneruniat

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Aesthetic experience, aesthetic education
• Interdisciplinary teaching and learning of the arts
• Imparting new music and contemporary art

Contact: Univ. Prof. in   Dr.in Brandstätter, Ursula
Email: ursula.brandstaetterbruckneruniat

Institute for Theory and History (Musicology)

Topic areas for dissertations:

• History of musical interpretation; empirical interpretation research
• Historical themes in relation to music and power; Music and society; Music in functional contexts or musical organisation structures
• History of the construction and use of musical instruments; musical instruments as cultural historical media; organology

Contact: Univ. Prof. Dr. Laubhold, Lars-Edvard
Email: lars-edvard.laubholdbruckneruniat

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Music history in the context of cultural studies
• Cultural history and its methods (mentality history, microhistory, discourse history, cultural studies, body studies)
• History of musical aesthetics
• Historical and media-theoretical inquiry into music conveyance and outreach
• Radio music (historically and systematically in the context of qualitative radio research)

Contact: Univ. Doz. Dr. Nicklaus, Hans Georg
Email: georg.nicklausbruckneruniat

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Music related gender studies
• Popular music and culture (with a focus on historical studies)
• Music history of the 19th and 20th century
• Research into music theatre, and music and migration

Contact: Univ. Prof. Dr. Stahrenberg, Carolin
Email: carolin.stahrenbergbruckneruniat

Institute for Theory and History (Artistic Research, Performance-Related Interpretation Research)

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Instrumental performance studies
• Performance practice in contemporary music and multimedia
• Interdisciplinary inquiry into the composer-performer-audience relationship (Collaboration, participatory art, charisma)
• Artistic research
• Impact of game elements in multimedia art

Contact: Univ. Prof.in Dr.in Barbara Lüneburg
Email: barbara.lueneburgbruckneruniat

Topic areas for dissertations:

• Music analysis and Formenlehre (voice-leading schemata, Schenker, Neo-Riemannian theory, sonata theory, tonal harmony, Tonfeld theory etc.)
• Digital Musicology (Corpus Studies)
• Musical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
• Film music
• Music Cognition
• Migration of musicians and stylistic transfer
• History of 18th- and 19th-century music

Contact: Univ. Prof. Dr. Markus Neuwirth 
Email: markus.neuwirthbruckneruniat