Ståle Wikshåland (30 June 1953 – 18 January

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) was a Norwegian

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

. He was born in

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. Wikshåland was a co-editor for the music magazine ''Ballade'', and worked for

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from 1981 to 1984. From 1988 to 2017 he was appointed professor in musicology at the

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. He was also a music critic for ''

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'' for thirty years, and contributed to the contemporary debate on music and art in society. Wikshåland died in 2017 of thrombosis, aged 63.

Publications

* 2007:
Elektra's Oceanic Time: Voice and Identity in Richard Strauss
. ''

19th-Century Music ''19th-Century Music'' is a triennial academic journal that "covers all aspects of Western art music composed in, leading to, or pointing beyond the "long century" extending roughly from the 1780s to the 1930s." The Journal is "interested equally ...

''. 31 (2): 164–174. doi:10.1525/ncm.2007.31.2.164. Retrieved 7 May 2016 * 2009: ''Century of interpretation'' . ''Essays on music and music understanding.'' Scandinavian Academic Press, 2009. ISBN 9788230400470

References

1953 births 2017 deaths People from Stavanger Norwegian musicologists University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian music critics Deaths from thrombosis {{Norway-music-bio-stub