Prof. dr. J.J.E. (Julia) Kursell
Musicology
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Muziekwetenschap
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18
Postal address
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Postbus 93058
1090 BB Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Julia Kursell is professor and chair of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Amsterdam. She studied musicology, Slavic philology and comparative literature in Munich, Moscow and Los Angeles, and completed her doctoral studies at Munich University with a thesis on music in the early Russian Avant-Garde. Before coming to Amsterdam, she was assistant professor at the Slavic Department of Munich University, and research fellow at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Berlin. From 2004 to 2011 she worked as research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where she was a member of the research group “Experimentalization of Life”. In 2013, she received the Habilitation (professorial degree) in musicology and history of science from Technical University, Berlin, for her book Epistemologie des Hörens: Helmholtz' physiologische Grundlegung der Musiktheorie. Her research interests include 20th and 21st-century composition, the history of musicology and the relation between music and science. She is co-director of the UvA's Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences (http://vossius.uva.nl) and a founding editor of the journal History of Humanities (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/current).
New Book
Re-Enactment Replication Reconstruction: Interdisciplinary Performative Methodologies, ed. with Sven Dupré, Anna Harris, Patricia Lulof and Maartje Stols-Witlox. Amsterdam University Press 2020.
Selected publications
2018. Epistemologie des Hörens: Helmholtz' physiologische Grundlegung der Musiktheorie. Paderborn: Fink.
2017 (ed. by Netzwerk "Hör-Wissen im Wandel" http://www.hoer-wissen-im-wandel.de). Wissensgeschichte des Hörens in der Moderne. Berlin: De Gruyter.
2015 (ed. with Rens Bod). Forum Session "The Humanities and the Sciences". Isis, 106 (2), 337-340.
2013 (ed. with Alexandra E. Hui and Myles W. Jackson). Music, Sound, and the Laboratory, From 1750 – 1980, Osiris 28, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2009 (ed. with Pnina Avidar and Raviv Ganchrow). Immersed. Sound and Architecture. OASE Tijdschrift voor Architectuur / Journal for Architecture, vol. 78.
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Publications
- refereed (25)
- academic (21)
- professional (3)
- popular scientific (1)
- recognitions (7)
- supervised theses (4)
2024
Kursell, J. (2024). Carl Stumpf and Control Groups. In J. Schickore, & W. R. Newman (Eds.), Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things: Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control (pp. 125-148). (Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology ; Vol. 71). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52954-2_5 [details]- Kursell, J. J. E. (2024). Carl Stumpf and the Phenomenology of Musical Utterances. In H. M. Berger, F. Riedel, & D. VanderHamm (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures (pp. online: C30.P1–C30.N24; print: 56-86). Oxford University Press. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190693879.013.30
2023
- Bod, R., Kursell, J., Maat, J., & Weststeijn, T. (2023). Theme: Unfolding Disciplines in the History of the Humanities: Introduction. History of Humanities, 8(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1086/723943 [details]
2022
- Bod, L. W. M., Maat, J., Weststeijn, M. A., & Kursell, J. J. E. (2022). Decentralizing the Humanities, Part II. History of Humanities, 7(2).
- Kursell, J. (2022). ‘False Relations’: Hermann von Helmholtz's Study of Music and the Delineation of Nineteenth-Century Physiology. Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 19(1), 85-106. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409820000117 [details]
2021
- Bod, L. W. M., Maat, J., Kursell, J. J. E., & Weststeijn, M. A. (2021). Decentralizing the History of the Humanities. University of Chicago Press.
- Bod, R., Kursell, J., Maat, J., & Weststeijn, T. (2021). Introduction. History of Humanities, 6(2), 377-380. https://doi.org/10.1086/715862 [details]
- Cohen, H. F., & Kursell, J. (2021). Simon Stevin’s Music Theory Revisited: A Dialogue. In C. Davids, F. J. Dijksterhuis, R. Vermij, & I. Stamhuis (Eds.), Rethinking Stevin, Stevin Rethinking: Constructions of a Dutch Polymath (pp. 252-272). (Nuncius Series : Studies and Sources in the Material and Visual History of Science; Vol. 6). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004432918_012 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2021). Coming to Terms with Sound: Carl Stumpf’s Discourse on Hearing Music and Language. History of Humanities, 6(1), 35-59. https://doi.org/10.1086/713256 [details]
- Kursell, J., Tkaczyk, V., & Ziemer, H. (2021). Introduction: Language, Sound, and the Humanities. History of Humanities, 6(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1086/713254 [details]
2020
- Dupré, S., Harris, A., Kursell, J., Lulof, P., & Stols-Witlox, M. (Eds.) (2020). Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b0fvx7, https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543854 [details]
- Kursell, J., & Peters, P. (2020). Making Sound Present: Re-enactment and Reconstruction in Historical Organ Building Practices. In S. Dupré, A. Harris, J. Kursell, P. Lulof, & M. Stols-Witlox (Eds.), Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences (pp. 115-140). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b0fvx7.8, https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543854-006 [details]
2019
- Kursell, J. (2019). From Tone to Tune: Carl Stumpf and the Violin. 19th Century Music, 43(2), 121–139. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2019.43.2.121 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2019). Listening to More Than Sounds: Carl Stumpf and the Experimental Recordings of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. Technology and Culture, 60(2, Supplement), S39-S63. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2019.0063 [details]
2018
- Kursell, J. (2018). Alexander Ellis’s Translation of Helmholtz’s Sensations of Tone. Isis, 109(2), 339-345. https://doi.org/10.1086/698239 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2018). Carl Stumpf and the Beginnings of Research in Musicality. In H. Honing (Ed.), The Origins of Musicality (pp. 323-346). MIT Press. http://cognet.mit.edu/pdfviewer/book/9780262344548/chap14 [details]
2017
- Kursell, J. (2017). Experimental Cylinders: Experiments in Music Psychology around 1900. Journal of Sonic Studies, 13. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/324247/324248 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2017). Fine-Tuning Philology: Helmholtz’s Investigation into Ancient Greek and Persian Scales. History of Humanities, 2(2), 345–359. https://doi.org/10.1086/693318 [details]
2016
- Bod, R., Kursell, J., Maat, J., & Weststeijn, T. (2016). A New Field: History of Humanities. History of Humanities, 1(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1086/685056 [details]
- Bod, R., Kursell, J., Maat, J., & Weststeijn, T. (2016). Going Global. History of Humanities, 1(2), 211-212. https://doi.org/10.1086/687970 [details]
- Kursell, J., & Schäfer, A. (2016). Microsound and Macrocosm: Gérard Grisey’s Explorations of Musical Sound and Space. In Y. Kaduri (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of sound and image in Western art (pp. 192-213). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841547.013.18 [details]
2015
- Bod, R., & Kursell, J. (2015). Introduction: The Humanities and the Sciences. Isis, 106(2), 337-340. https://doi.org/10.1086/681993 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2015). A third note: Helmholtz, Palestrina, and the Early History of Musicology. Isis, 106(2), 353-366. https://doi.org/10.1086/682003 [details]
2013
- Hui, A., Kursell, J., & Jackson, M. W. (2013). Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750 to 1980. In A. Hui, J. Kursell, & M. W. Jackson (Eds.), Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750–1980 (pp. 1-11). (Osiris; Vol. 28). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.1086/671360 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2013). Experiments on Tone Color in Music and Acoustics: Helmholtz, Schoenberg, and Klangfarbenmelodie. In A. Hui, J. Kursell, & M. W. Jackson (Eds.), Music, Sound, and the Laboratory From 1750 to 1980 (pp. 191-211). (Osiris; Vol. 28). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.1086/671360
2023
- Kursell, J. J. E. (2023). Unfamiliar Sound in Nineteenth-Century Experimentation in Acoustics. In C. Rouleau (Ed.), Experimental Re(é)[flex|ct|ion] Expérimentale (pp. 15-24). Casino Luxembourg.
2022
- Kursell, J. J. E. (2022). Laut und Sinn (Erich Moritz von Hornbostel; Fs. Meinhof, hrsg. von F. Boas u. a., Glückstadt und Hamburg 1927, 329–348). In F. Wörner, & M. Wald-Fuhrmann (Eds.), Lexikon Schriften über Musik: Musikästhetik in Europa und Nordamerika / Music aesthetics in Europe and North America (Vol. 2, pp. 386-387). Bärenreiter.
2021
- Kursell, J. (2021). Schwärme und andere Verstecke: HIDDEN für Streichquartett und Elektronik von Chaya Czernowin. In U. Tadday (Ed.), Chaya Czernowin (pp. 62-76). (Musik-Konzepte : Die Reihe über Komponisten; Vol. 194, No. VII/2021). Edition Text + Kritik. [details]
2020
- Bod, R., Kursell, J., Maat, J., & Weststeijn, T. (2020). History of Humanities in Times of Lockdown. History of Humanities, 5(2), 307. https://doi.org/10.1086/710275 [details]
- Dupré, S., Harris, A., Kursell, J., Lulof, P., & Stols-Witlox, M. (2020). Introduction. In S. Dupré, A. Harris, J. Kursell, P. Lulof, & M. Stols-Witlox (Eds.), Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences (pp. 9-34). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b0fvx7.4, https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543854-002 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2020). Total Involvement. In M. Krajewski, & H. Maye (Eds.), Universalenzyklopädie der menschlichen Klugheit (pp. 115–116). Kulturverlag Kadmos.
2019
- Kursell, J. (2019). Hearing in the Music of Hector Berlioz. In D. Trippett, & B. Walton (Eds.), Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination (pp. 109-133). Cambrigde University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316275863.006 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2019). Hören in der Nacht und unter Wasser: Klavierstücke von Salvatore Sciarrino. In U. Tadday (Ed.), Salvatore Sciarrino (pp. 118–130). (Musik-Konzepte. Sonderband; Vol. Neue Folge, 2019). Edition Text + Kritik. [details]
2018
- Bod, R., Kursell, J., Maat, J., & Weststeijn, T. (2018). Rethinking the Humanities and the Sciences. History of Humanities, 3(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1086/696345 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2018). Epistemologie des Hörens: Helmholtz' physiologische Grundlegung der Musiktheorie. Wilhelm Fink. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846759288 [details]
- Kursell, J. J. E. (2018). Klangfarbe. In D. Morat, & H. Ziemer (Eds.), Handbuch Sound: Geschichte - Begriffe - Ansätze (pp. 57-62). Metzler.
- Kursell, J., & Schäfer, A. (2018). Elektronische Musik für Radios von John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen und Michael Snow. In U. Holl (Ed.), Radiophonic Cultures (Vol. 1, pp. 135-149). Heidelberg: Kehrer. [details]
2017
- Kursell, J. (2017). Klangfarbe um 1850: Ein epistemischer Raum. In Netzwerk "Hör-Wissen im Wandel", & D. Morat (Eds.), Wissensgeschichte des Hörens in der Moderne (pp. 21-40). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110523720-002 [details]
- Kursell, J. (2017). Mit dem Hören komponieren: Kombinationstöne in der Musik von Enno Poppe. In U. Tadday (Ed.), Enno Poppe (pp. 113–126). (Musik-Konzepte : die Reihe über Komponisten; No. Neue Folge, 175). München: Edition Text + Kritik. [details]
- Kursell, J. (2017). Musikwissenschaft am Berliner Institut für Psychologie: Carl Stumpf und der Interferenzapparat. In W. Auhagen, W. Hirschmann, & T. Mäkelä (Eds.), Musikwissenschaft 1900-1930: Zur Institutionalisierung und Legitimierung einer jungen akademischen Disziplin (pp. 73-90). (Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft; Vol. 98). Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. [details]
- Kursell, J. (2017). Notenlesen. In F. Balke, & R. Gaderer (Eds.), Medienphilologie: Konturen eines Paradigmas (pp. 172–195). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. [details]
- Netzwerk "Hör-Wissen im Wandel", & Morat, D. (Ed.) (2017). Wissensgeschichte des Hörens in der Moderne. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110523720 [details]
2016
- Kursell, J. (2016). Experimentalisierung des Hörens: Musik und Medien um 1900. In M. Saxer (Ed.), Spiel (mit) der Maschine: musikalische Medienpraxis in der Frühzeit von Phonographie, Reproduktionsklavier, Film und Radio (pp. 29-50). (Musik und Klangkultur; No. 11). Transcript . https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430361-003 [details]
2014
- Kursell, J. (2014). Carl Stumpfs Versuche mit Unmusikalischen = Carl Stumpf's Experiments with the Nonmusical. Trajekte, 29, 43-47. [details]
- Kursell, J., Azzouni, S., Brandt, C., Gausemeier, B., Schmidgen, H., & Wittmann, B. (2014). Eine Naturgeschichte für das 21. Jahrhundert Hommage à / zu Ehren von / in Honor of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Berlin: Alpheus Verlag.
2013
- Hui, A., Kursell, J., & Jackson, M. W. (Eds.) (2013). Music, sound, and the laboratory from 1750 - 1980. (Osiris; Vol. 28). University of Chicago Press.
2016
- Kursell, J. (2016). [Review of: E. Hiebert (2015) The Helmholtz Legacy in Physiological Acoustics]. Isis, 107(3), 624-625. https://doi.org/10.1086/688363 [details]
2015
- Kursell, J. (2015). Beyond Tonality. (Inaugural lecture; No. 528). Universiteit van Amsterdam. [details]
- Kursell, J. (2015). [Review of: V. Smyrek (2013) Die Geschichte des Tonmischpults: die technische Entwicklung der Mischpulte und der Wandel der medialen Produktionsverfahren im Tonstudio von den 1920er-Jahren bis heute]. Isis, 102(2), 491-492. https://doi.org/10.1086/682813 [details]
2021
- Kursell, J. J. E. (2021). Der Augenblick zählt: Neue Stücke des Jahres 2020 von Chaya Czernowin. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 2020(6), 24-27.
Journal editor
- Bod, L. W. M. (editor), Kursell, J. (editor), Maat, J. (editor) & Weststeijn, M. A. (editor) (2016-2022). History of Humanities (Journal). http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/current
Others
- Lulof, P. (organiser), Dupre, S. (organiser), Stols-Witlox, M. J. N. (organiser), Kursell, J. J. E. (organiser) & Harris, A. (organiser) (6-12-2018 - 7-12-2018). Re-Enactment Replication Reconstruction. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Performative Methodologies, Amsterdam. Re-Enactment Replication Reconstruction. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Performative Methodologies (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Kursell, J. (organiser) (13-9-2018 - 14-9-2018). Multi Media Composition with real time components, Amsterdam. The Workshop discussed databases for multi media composition with contributors from recognized centers in France (IRCAM), Switzerland (ZHdK) and the (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Titus, B. (participant), de Valk, R. (participant), Simonnot, J. (participant) & Kursell, J. J. E. (organiser) (18-5-2018). International Symposium Captured Sounds - Collecting, Storing, Sharing, Berlin. Participation in the Panel MIARchive – Archiving Music, Digital Access, and the Ethics of Access (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Stols-Witlox, M. (organiser), Lulof, P. S. (organiser), Dupré, S. G. M. (organiser), Kursell, J. J. E. (organiser) & Harris, A. (organiser) (12-6-2017 - 16-6-2017). Re-enactment, Replication, Reconstruction, Leiden. International workshop with the goals were to reflect on reconstruction, re-enactment and replication (RRR) practices across the fields of history of (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/874/info.php3?wsid=874
- Holzapfel, A. (organiser), van Kranenburg, P. (organiser), Kursell, J. (organiser) & Volk, A. (organiser) (2017). Computational Ethnomusicology, Leiden. Understanding symbol systems like music or language is one of the great challenges of the humanities. Computational approaches are increasingly (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/866/info.php3?wsid=866&venue=Oort
- Dupré, S. G. M. (organiser), Harris, A. (organiser), Kursell, J. (organiser), Lulof, P. S. (organiser) & Stols-Witlox, M. J. N. (organiser) (2017). Lorentz Workshop Re-enactment, Replication, Reconstruction, Leiden. The workshop brings together specialists from the fields of art history, archaeology, conservation, musicology and anthropology. Its goals are to (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/874/info.php3?wsid=874&venue=Oort
2024
2021
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Kursell, J. (2024). Carl Stumpf and Control Groups. In J. Schickore, & W. R. Newman (Eds.), Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things: Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control (pp. 125-148). (Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology ; Vol. 71). Springer.