OFFERED FALL 2024
This course focuses on building bridges between the craft of music making in the past and the art of interpretation today. Through concrete tools, through stepping in the shoes of the well-educated musician of 17th and 18th century, you will gain knowledge about composition, performance, context and concrete practice, all with the purpose of gaining stylistic fluency and vocabulary.
Study Levels: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty: Christian Westergaard and Toke Møldrup
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OFFERED SPRING 2025
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OFFERED FALL 2024
This course is aimed at both composer/performers and Principal Study Performers who have an existing command of their instrument but would like to develop improvisational skills. A prerequisite for opting for this course is a willingness to go outside of your comfort zone.
Study Levels: Undergraduate
Faculty: Richard Thomas, Mark Armstrong, Paul Robinson, Tim Watts
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OFFERED SPRING 2025
OFFERED FALL 2024
This course offers students an opportunity to study major works of the Harlem Renaissance, with an emphasis upon literature, and also bolstered by excursions into music and the visual arts.
Study Levels: Undergraduate
Faculty: Delano Copprue
Manhattan School of Music
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OFFERED SPRING 2025
This class covers the history of opera from the earliest works to the present, considering operas written or performed by underrepresented creators. The content for this course includes works by underrepresented composers/librettists and/or stories about BIPOC, LGBTQ, and woman characters, which would typically be performed by such performers. The chosen repertoire blends canonical works with lesser-known repertoire.
Course Tutor : Dr. James Massol
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OFFERED FALL 2024
The human body is involved in all aspects of music making and listening, from dexterity and the expressive power of voice and gestures, to refined auditory capacities and decoding notation. All too often these faculties are evaluated against expectations derived from (fictitious) normative bodies. But what happens when we take seriously the diversity of individual bodies who interact with (normative) instruments and preset conceptions of music? Through select case studies, this course asks what musicians and pedagogues can learn from dis/ability studies and how we might make music more inclusive and accessible.
Study Levels : Advanced undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty: Stephanie Probst
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OFFERED FALL 2024
In this course, we will focus on the people who make music sound: the performers. We will approach music history by examining their role in processes of musical creation and repertoire formation, as well as their impact on the distribution and reception of compositions. We will explore how this offers a more diverse and nuanced picture of the various individuals that have shaped music history.
Study Levels : Advanced Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty: Elisabeth Reisinger
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OFFERED SPRING 2025
Audience and community engagement have become important tasks for musicians in the 21st century. In order to attract diverse audiences and to unfold societal relevance, cultural institutions and musicians have to think of presentation and participation formats that go beyond the classical concert format, with its rigid conventions and exclusion mechanisms. Instead of perpetuating existing power- relations, audience and community engagement seek to develop a transformative power, in order to develop a much more symmetrical understanding of the relationship between the producers and recipients of art.
In this course we will explore ways to engage with audiences and communities and discuss both chances and pitfalls. We will read and reflect on central texts, hear experts from the cultural field talk about their stance on the topic, discuss and critically review international examples and do hands-on exercises.
Study Level: Undergraduate, graduate
Faculty: Axel Petri-Preis
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OFFERED FALL 2024
Ableton Live is currently one of the most creative Digital Audio Workstation software available. The Ableton Sessions course focuses on the use of the session view within Ableton. The main objective of this course is to playfully discover the creative power of Ableton without the immediate concern for a perfect final product. Step by step, you'll learn how to assemble the various layers of a musical work in your own unique way.
Teaching institution: Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Course Tutor: Ferry Ridderhof
Course level: Undergraduate/Postgraduate
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OFFERED IN SPRING 2025
Exploring the art of spontaneous musical creation in Free Improvisation techniques: This course covers foundational exercises, instrumental possibilities, and advanced methods in free improvisation.
Teaching institution : Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Course Tutor: Yaniv Nachum
Course level: Postgraduate
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