* Electives - Conservatorium van Amsterdam - Amsterdam University of the Arts

Classical Master Electives

Each student should take at least two electives and earn a minimum of 20 credits with them in two years.

If you want to register for an elective, please send a mail to Marije Franken.

Courses which have less than five registrations before July 1, will be cancelled.

NB! Some of the courses listed below are mandatory or recommended for students of certain principal subjects or specializations. Please check the information on your principal subject or specialization in the Study Guide or on Classical or Early Music principal subjects these pages to find out if there are any courses that you are required to take. In that case, they will still count to your electives package of 20 credits.

Each elective can be combined with others so as to create a connected package. The course descriptions below contain suggestions for such combinations under the header 'Related electives'.

2019-2020

Department	Subject	Teacher(s)
Classical Department	Analysis and Performance	Paul Scheepers
	Baroque Dance: Practice and Notation	Rachel Davies-Farr
	Building a Successful Professional Practice	Aart-Jan van der Pol, guest instructors
	Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques	David de Marez Oyens, Rafael Reina, Jos Zwaanenburg
	Developing Creativity	Sander van Maas
	Electronic Music	Jorrit Tamminga
	Freedom and Improvisation	Joris Roelofs
	From Lully to Boulez: Musical Life in Paris through the Centuries	Michel Khalifa
	Historiography of Music Theory: A Reading Course	Michiel Schuijer
	History of the Early Music Movement	Mimi Mitchell
	History of the Orchestra	Johannes Leertouwer
	Instrumentation and Classical Arranging	Michael Langemann
	Introduction to Gregorian Chant	Richard Bot
	Leading from Within: Ensemble Practice in Eighteenth-Century Repertoire	Teunis van der Zwart
	Moving and Musicking with the Elderly	Jacqueline Koop, Ellen van Hoek
	Music Theatre and Stage Performance	Jorge Isaac
	The Musical Body	Marja Mosk
	The Musical Mind: Issues in Music Psychology	Marieke Oremus
	Musical Texture	Amit Gur
	New Methodologies for Music Research	Mimi Mitchell
	Orchestral Practice and Audition Training	Frank Bakker, Jan Kouwenhoven
	Patterns of Performance: The Neuroscience of Improving Experts	Beorn Nijenhuis
	Reading Black Music - Key Texts on African-American Music	Walter van de Leur
	Schenker Analysis	John Koslovsky
	Sources and Resources: From Manuscript to Edition	Andrea Friggi
	Style in Performance	Johannes Leertouwer
	Technological Strategies in Composing and Performing	Arnold Marinissen
	Tuning and Temperament	Jorge Isaac, Rafael Reina

Students may choose the following courses for individual credits (but NOT) for master elective credits:

Subject	Teacher(s)
Advanced Rhythm	Jos Zwaanenburg