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Contextual Studies and Cross-pollination
The following information applies to the Classical department, please visit this page for the Jazz programme.
In the Studyguides you find practical information about these subjects.
In order to build a successful professional career in the (inter)national professional field, it is not enough for a musician to excel only artistically. A broad knowledge base, insight into the broad cultural field, a critical, future-oriented, inquisitive attitude and creative entrepreneurship are also indispensable competencies. The professional areas General Cultural Education and Cross-pollination focus on the development of these skills, always making the link between the artistic occupation and the professional field. The competencies are taught in the course units Artist in Society, Music History, Cultural Currents, Research Skills, (Introduction to) Artistic Research, Entrepreneurship and Creative (Final) Project.
You will be challenged to look from micro and macro perspectives at your individual profile and at the music world around it, and you will learn to situate both within (Western) history, society and cultural heritage. Moreover, you will be taught the necessary tools and practical knowledge to position and organize yourself professionally after your programme. Reflection and research are a substantial part of the package throughout the bachelor-master programme. After all, any newly acquired insight based on research in the artistic field is a contribution to a more well-founded interpretation of your repertoire, or a building block or inspiration for new creations. The broad perspective allows for an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach within certain courses. For example, the courses Introduction to the Arts & Humanities and Entrepreneurship are taught across the programmes, where, as a Music programme student, you take classes together and carry out assignments with colleagues from Drama, Dance or Visual Arts.
In the bachelor programme, you will first receive an overview of Western music history from ancient times to the present day. From bachelor 3 you can zoom in on certain capita selecta from music history through modules. Introduction to the arts & humanities offers you a general cultural and art history framework in which important events and evolutions in (mainly Western) cultural history from prehistory to contemporary art are reviewed and explored. In your bachelor programme you will learn the principles of research on music.
Throughout your bachelor's programme, you will learn the principles of music research in Research Skills and Introduction to Artistic Research. Research skills, source study and academic writing are taught and then applied to papers for courses such as Analysis and Music History. Artist in Society is based on the principle of information and confrontation through encounters. Concrete career choices and specializations are extensively discussed and highlighted by means of lectures by active experts from the field and field visits behind the scenes of professional art and cultural institutions.
Most of the lessons in the professional area of General Cultural Formation are taught in groups, but as the personal perspective and individual nature of the assignments become more important, individual coaching also takes on a greater role. For example, from the second level onwards, Artistic Research works with tutoring and the class series in Artist in Society is followed by an individually monitored assignment in which you are explicitly challenged to search for your individual profile and future image.
As a master's student, in Creative Project 1 you will enter into a practical and active dialogue as an artist with other art disciplines and specific target groups or communities in the City. In the course Entrepreneurship, you will learn the basic theory for strategic entrepreneurship and how to organize and promote yourself as a professional artist. External experts are frequent guests and alumni also testify about their successful career paths.
In the Master's programme, the Artistic Research course evolves into an individually coached research project on a facet of your own artistic practice. Your research supervisor will prepare you individually for your academic Master's thesis, with content advice from your main subject lecturer. The final Master's thesis with lecture performance is linked in content to your artistic Master's thesis in your main discipline and forms the crowning glory of the academic programme.
In addition, as a vocal or instrument student in Master 2 you will actively work as a ‘maker’ and set up your own creative final project with other students or external artists: a ready-made production in which you will work out a thematic or interdisciplinary concept, organize it and present it on one of the many stages in the city with which the programme cooperates.
TEACHERS
CREATIVE (FINAL)PROJECT
Jeroen Malaise (incl. coördination), Sam Gevers, Mathias Coppens, Pieter Matthynssens, Nabou Claerhout, Junior Akwety, Isaak Duerinck, Lieselot De Wilde, Naomie Beeldens
INTRODUCTION TO ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Dimitri Goossens
ARTIST IN SOCIETY
Wouter Hillaert, Pieter Matthynssens
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT
Jeroen Malaise
MUSIC HISTORY
Yves Senden, Stephan Weytjens (incl. coordination), guest teachers and researchers
RESEARCH
Korneel Bernolet, Jeroen Billiet, Nico Couck, Anne Pustlauk, Yves Senden (incl. coordination masters), Umut Eldem, Hendrik Vanden Abeele