Performance – Classical Music, Early Music
In the Bachelor's Programme in Classical Music with focus on Early Music, you can immerse yourself in music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque.
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Teaching form:
Bachelor programme
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Department:
Classical music
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Pace of study:
Full time
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Credits:
180
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Admissions:
1 Dec 2022 – 16 Jan 2023
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Application Code:
The Bachelor's Programme in Classical Music gives you a solid foundation for acting as a professional musician in the national and international music community. In classical music at KMH you can choose between studying the following:
- Classical Music
- Early Music
- Classical Music at Edsberg.
Please note that a knowledge of Swedish is a general entry requirement for first cycle studies at KMH, but exemptions can be made.
Unique Selection of Instruments
At KMH you can choose from most instruments in early music in Sweden. You can study the following instruments:
- recorder
- flauto traverso
- Baroque oboe
- Baroque bassoon
- cornett
- sackbut (Baroque trombone)
- Baroque violin
- Baroque viola
- Baroque cello
- viola da gamba
- violone
- Baroque lute
- Renaissance lute
- theorbo
- Baroque guitar
- harpsichord
- organ
- singing, all types of voice, countertenor included
Programme Content
This programme deals with the classical repertoire from medieval times down to and including the early Romantic period, addressing relation to historical performing practice and the interpretation of music on authentic instruments and with historical playing/singing techniques.
The studies can include coaching/rehearsal together with various instruments, chamber music for the varying parts of the repertoire, seminars (performing practice, profession studies, instrumental studies) and work placement with ensembles and musical institutions outside KMH. As a chordal instrumentalist, you are taught both solo and continuo performance on your main instrument.
To these are added obligatory subsidiary subjects, such as music theory, music and society and media courses. The programme includes a 15 ECTS independent assignment in the main subject. It means a concert or a corresponding artistic performance together with written reflections on music in an artistic perspective.
Elective courses are also included. These can take the form of in-depth studies of the main subject or a broadening of your competence within the framework of available KMH courses.
Workshops and seminars led by visiting teachers, both national and international, are organised regularly.
After the Programme
The studies are intended to develop your artistic and technical ability, to give you a good knowledge of repertoire and to deepen your artistic insight. The programme prepares you for a professional career in the music industry.