Stockmann, Doris
Stockmann Erich, *10 March 1926 Stendal, †23 November 2003 Berlin, German ethnomusicologist. In 1946–49, he studied musicology and German at the University of Greifswald. From 1950 to 1952, he continued his musicology studies with H. Dräger, E. Meyer and W. Vetter at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1953. In the same year, he began working at the Institute of Folklore at the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin. In 1957, he conducted fieldwork in Albania and began lecturing (ethnomusicology and organology) at Humboldt University. In 1980, on the basis of his dissertation Zur Theorie und Methode der Untersuchung von Volksmusikinstrumenten, he habilitated at the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, which awarded him the title of professor in 1983. At Stockmann’s initiative, the IFMC Study Group on Folk Musical Instruments was established in 1962, in which he served as chairman; the results of this section were published in «Studia Instrumentorum Musicae Popularis» from 1969. From 1975, he was vice-chairman and in 1982–97 chairman of the ICTM, and from 1991 to 1997, a member of the board of the UNESCO International Music Council. In 1997, he became an honorary member of the IMC and ICTM. Stockmann’s scientific interests were focused on the folk instruments of Europe. After an expedition to Albania, he also began studies on vocal polyphony from that region and its historical connections with Caucasian polyphony. He developed extensive editorial activity, encouraged the musicological community to cooperate internationally and stimulated discussions on research methods.
Literature: Ethnomusikologie und historische Musikwissenschaft. Gemeinsame Ziele, gleiche Methoden?, commemorative book of Erich Stockmann, ed. C.-H. Mahling and S. Münch, Tutzing 1997; F. Schneider, Erinnerungen an Erich Stockmann. Nachruf für einen der bedeutednsten Musikethnologen unserer Zeit, “Folk World” 2003.
Der musikalische Sinn der elektro-akustischen Musikinstrumente, Berlin 1953 (doctoral dissertation)
Des Knaben Wunderhorn in den Weisenseiner Zeit, Berlin 1958
Die vokale Bordun-Mehrstimmigkeit in Südalbanien, with D. Stockmann, in: Ethnomusicologie III, «Les Colloques de Wégimont» IV, Paris 1964
articles:
Die europäischen Volksmusikinstrumente. Möglichkeiten und Probleme ihrer Darstellung in einem Handbuch, “Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde” X, 1964
Volksmusikinstrumente und Arbeit, “Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde” XI, 1965
Zur Typologie der Volksmusikinstrumente, with O. Elschek, “Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde” XIV, 1968
Zur Theorie und Methode der Erforschung von Instrumenten, “Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft” XXVII, 1985
Ethnomusicology in Berlin. Aspects and Perspectives, in: European Studies in Ethnomusicology, book with materials from the 7th ethnomusicological seminar in Berlin Berlinie 1990, ed. M.P. Baumann at al., Wilhelmshaven 1992
also, articles in “Journal of the International Folk Music Council,” “Yearbook for Traditional Music,” “Jahrbuch des Österreichischen Volksliedwerkes”
issues:
I. Weber-Kellermann Ludolf Parisius und seine altmärkischen Volkslieder, Berlin 1957
Albanische Volksmusik, vol. 1: Gesänge der Çamen, with W. Fiedler and D. Stockmann, Berlin 1965
E.M. von Hornbostel Tonart und Ethos. Aufsätze zur Musikethnologie und Musikpsychologie, with C. Kadenem, Leipzig 1986
editing:
“Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde” 1961–69
“Deutsches Jahrbuch der Musikwissenschaft” 1969–78
“Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council” 1969–79
“Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft” 1980–89
Musikkulturen in Afrika, Berlin 1987
G. Kubik Zum Verstehen afrikanischer Musik, collection of dissertations, Leipzig 1988