Musicology Department

Founded in 1965 by Professor Alexander Ringer from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was the first department of its kind in Israel. Within a decade of its existence, it boasted distinguished faculty members such as the late Israel Adler, the late Bathja Bayer, the late Josef Tal, the late Dalia Cohen, Ruth Katz (both Cohen and Katz were the 2012 recipients of the Israel Prize in music), the late Amnon Shiloah, the late Jehoash Hirshberg, Roger Kamien, and the late Don Harrán. Then as in nowadays the Department seeks to advance interdisciplinary research of music as a multifaceted phenomenon whose manifestations proliferate across social, political, and ethnic borders. Classes in the Musicology Department focus on a diverse range of fields such as historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and music cognition. Among the current faculty members are leading scholars in the fields of European art music (from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century), psycho-acoustics and cognition, Jewish musics, popular and folk music, musicological historiography, aesthetics, semiotics, and more.  

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