Kurt Reinhard was a German

Germany

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 musicologist

Musicology

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 and ethnomusicologist

Ethnomusicology

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. Specialist in Turkish music

Music of Turkey

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Born in Gießen

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, Germany

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, he studied musicology and composition at the University of Cologne

University of Cologne

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 from 1933–1935, and ethnology

Ethnology

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 at the Universities of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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 and Munich from 1935-1936. He took his doctorate

Doctor of Philosophy

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 at Munich

Munich

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 doing his dissertation on Burmese music.

His chief area of interest in the field of ethnomusicology was the folk music of Turkey.

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