Malmö Academy of Music ( Swedish: Musikhögskolan i Malmö) is a Swedish

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dedicated to

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and

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within the fields of

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

and

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. The school is located in

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in southern

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and belongs to the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at

Lund University Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...

. The school was founded in 1907 as a music conservatory. In 1971, it became public and changed its name to Malmö Academy of Music. Six years later, in 1977, the school became part of

. In 2007, the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts was established, which today includes Malmö Academy of Music, as well as Malmö Theatre Academy and Malmö Art Academy. Malmö Academy of Music has about 35

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and

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level as well as a large number of independent courses in

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church music Church music is a genre of Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn. History Early Christian musi ...

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...

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and

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. The school also has one of Sweden's largest music teacher training programs. Malmö Academy of Music collaborates with partner universities in several countries and is a member of international networks like Association Européenne des Conservatoires (AEC), International Society for Music Education (ISME), European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) and the Association of Nordic Music Academies (ANMA).

External links

Malmö Academy of Music - Official siteLund University - Official site
Music schools in Sweden Buildings and structures in Malmö Lund University 1907 establishments in Sweden 1900s establishments in Malmöhus County {{Sweden-stub