OFFERED FALL 2026
Discover a rich and often overlooked repertoire that deserves a place on the international concert stage.
This course invites singers and pianists to explore the world of Danish art song through language, history, poetry, and performance. Using the groundbreaking anthology Danish Diction in Art Song, students will gain practical tools for performing in Danish while deepening their understanding of the cultural and artistic contexts that shaped this repertoire.
Course Levels: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty: Associate Professor Eva Hess Thaysen and guest faculty
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OFFERED SPRING 2027
What does it really mean to listen?
This interdisciplinary course explores hearing not simply as a biological process, but as a creative and artistic practice. Combining music, acoustics, technology, and sound art, students will investigate how the ear works, how we perceive space and timbre, and how listening shapes our musical experience.
Course Levels: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty: Associate Professor Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg
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OFFERED SPRING 2027
This course explores the rich traditions of improvisation in Western music before 1600, uncovering practices that shaped musical culture long before the emergence of the modern concert tradition. Focusing particularly on early Italian musical and philosophical traditions, students will investigate how improvisation functioned as a tool for creativity, communication, learning, and performance.
Course Levels : Undergraduate
Faculty : Dr Caroline Gill
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OFFERED SPRING 2026
This module is for performers and composers who want to develop their critical understanding of contemporary ideas in music education and explore the impact of tradition and innovation on their own creative practice and that of others.
We will work with ideas from philosophy, sociology, psychology and human geography, and draw on the scholarship of leading contemporary thinkers such as Biesta, Koza, Monbiot, Murris, Voegelin and Westerlund.
Course Level: Postgraduate
Faculty: Mary Stakelum
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OFFERED SPRING 2026
This online course builds on your skills as a communicator about music through writing and speaking. Practical workshops enable students to explore different styles of communicating about music, including descriptive, interpretative and evaluative examples. In this Global Conservatoire module you will study online alongside students from the College’s institutional partners.
Study Levels: Undergraduate
Faculty: Christina Guillaumier
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OFFERED FALL 2025
This class covers the history of opera from the earliest works to the present, considering operas written or performed by underrepresented creators.
Course Level: Undergraduate
Faculty: James Massol
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OFFERED SPRING 2026
Creating a compelling and memorable musical theatre song requires writers to master a breadth of skills: music theory, harmonic and melodic techniques, vocal composition, dramaturgy and playwriting. Students will analyze songs from the Broadway canon and write music and lyrics for two original songs of their own that are active and actable, and satisfying both musically and dramatically.
Study Levels: Undergraduate
Faculty: Andrew Gerle
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OFFERED FALL 2025
For a long time, the thinking and writing of music history has focused on the written "work" and its creator. But what if we shift the perspective and conceptualize music as a social sonic event? In this course, we will focus on the people who make music sound: the performers.
Course Level : Postgraduate
Faculty: Elisabeth Reisinger
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OFFERED SPRING 2026
In this seminar, we will explore a variety of approaches to participation in the arts. Starting from the observation of community artist François Matarasso that participation has recently become a normalized art practice and policy, we will look at the history of participatory and community art and engage with current texts and reflections, including those by David Elliot et al., Helena Gaunt et al., Dave Camlin, Thomas Turino, and Maria Westvall.
Course Level: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty: Axel Petri-Preis
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OFFERED FALL 2025
This course is designed to help creatives navigate the journey from idea to completion by equipping them with insights, tools and strategies to manage their personal projects effectively.
Course level: Postgraduate
Faculty: Anna-Maria Nitschke
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OFFERED IN SPRING 2026
Exploring the art of spontaneous musical creation in Free Improvisation techniques: This course covers foundational exercises, instrumental possibilities, and advanced methods in free improvisation.
Course level: Postgraduate
Faculty: Yaniv Nachum
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