Kurt Reinhard
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Kurt Reinhard (August 27, 1914 – July 18, 1979) was a German musicologist and ethnomusicologist. Specialist in Turkish music.
Born in Gießen, Germany, he studied musicology and composition at the University of Cologne from 1933-1935, and ethnology at the Universities of Leipzig and Munich from 1935-1936. He took his doctorate at Munich doing his dissertation on Burmese music.
His chief area of interest in the field of ethnomusicology was the folk music of Turkey.
[edit] Partial bibliography:
- Types of Turkmenian Songs in Turkey, Journal of the International Folk Music Council 9, 1956
- On the problem of pre-pentatonic scales: particularly the third-second nucleus, Journal of the International Folk Music Council 10, 1958
- Türkische Musik, Berlin, 1962
- "Türkische Musik", in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1966
- Musique de Turquie (in French, with Ursula Reinhard), Buchet/Chastel (Paris), 1996