International Conference on the Role and Place of Music in the Education of Youth and Adults; Music in education; 1955

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE

1. In each country, at least one university should include in its curri-
   culum a complete course in musicology.


2. It would be desirable to plan in all universities in all countries a
   general and a specialized course in the history of music.


3. The general course should be compulsory for all students in the
   faculty of arts, particularly for students of history.


4. The specialized course should figure among the optional courses
   for an arts degree.


5. In all universities it would be desirable to arrange wide publicity
   for these courses.


6. The progressive carrying out of all these recommendations should
   be entrusted to a permanent body, either an international association
   already in existence, or a commission set up for the purpose.

[Translated from tbe French]

MUSIC EDUCATION

IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF THE

SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES

by

Emo ROIHA, Professor, Helsinki University

In the Scandinavian universities music has been one of the main sub-

jects for a considerable time; first (in the eighteenth and nineteenth

centuries) rather as recreation-choirs and instrumental ensembles ;

later as an object of real scientific research. Since about 1900 lecturers

in music have been appointed to the Scandinavian universities. August

Hammerich was appointed in 1896 in Copenhagen, and Ilmari I(rohn

in 1900 in Helsinki. The early Scandinavian musicologists studied

chiefly in Germany where such eminent scientists as Friedrich Chry-

sander and Julius Spitta had greatly influenced the rising German gene-