Scandinavian Classical Music

Fall & Spring | 3 credits | Elective
Majors: Music

A comprehensive Nordic music history course focusing on the development of art music in Scandinavia from the middleages to the present. The music of Jean Sibelius, Edvard Grieg, Carl Nielsen, and others will be examined as the course compares the concurrent development of music in the rest of Europe to the nationalistic styles of Nordic music in the romantic period and onwards.

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Instructors

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  Knud Riishøjgård

  Knud Riishøjgård. Composer. Mag. Art.in Music Theory and Composition, Aalborg Music Conservatory, 1991. External lecturer, Aalborg Music Conservatory (1991-1999) and University of Aalborg (1994-1999). Taught courses in music history at several music school around Denmark. Recipient of the Danish Arts Agency’s Grant, 1998. Own compositions performed all over Europe and in the U.S.