Gerald R. Hoekstra - Home Page

Professor of Music
St. Olaf College
Teaching Areas:
Music History,
Collegium Musicum,
Early Music Singers

Music Department
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Ave.
Northfield, MN 55057
office phone: 507-786-3181
email: hoekstra@stolaf.edu

Office Location:

Christiansen Hall of Music Rm. 238


Brief bio:

I am a Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, where I teach music history courses and direct the early music ensembles. My principal area of research is music of the sixteenth-century Low Countries, and I have published critical editions of the music of Hubert Waelrant and André Pevernage, and most recently an edition of Le Rossignol musical des chansons (Antwerp, 1597). My articles have appeared in Musica Disciplina, Early Music, Speculum, and The Choral Journal. In 2002 I was presented with the Thomas Binkley Award by Early Music America. I currently serve as General Editor of the Yale Collegium Musicum series published by A-R Editions. I am a member of the American Musicological Society, the Viola da Gamba Society of America, and Early Music America; I currently serve on the board of EMA and chair the EMA Committee for Early Music in Higher Education.

  • Schedule, Fall Semester 2008:
    MON. TUES. WED. THUR. FRI.

    9:30-10:00 Office
    11:00-11:30 Office
    12:55 Music 241A
    2:00 Music 241B

    10:00-11:00 Office
    11:45-1:10 Early Music Singers
    6:30-8:30 Collegium

    9:30-10:00 Office
    11:00-11:30 Office
    11:50 Music Fac. Mtg.
    12:55 Music 241A
    2:00 Music 241B

    10:00-11:00 Office
    12:45-2:05 Early Music Singers

    9:30-10:00 Office
    11:00-11:30 Office
    12:55 Music 241A
    2:00 Music 241B
    3:15-4:15 Viols
  • Schedule, Spring Semester 2009:
    MON. TUES. WED. THUR. FRI.

    9:05 Mus 342 Baroque Era
    1:00-2:00 Office

    10:00-11:00 Office
    11:45-1:10 Early Music Singers
    6:30-8:30 Collegium

    9:05 Mus 342 Baroque Era
    11:50 Music Fac. Mtg.
    1:00-2:00 Office

    10:00-11:00 Office
    11:30 Wind Band
    12:45-2:05 Early Music Singers

    9:05 Mus 342 Baroque Era
    1:00-2:00 Office
    3:15 Viols

  • Courses:
    Among the courses I teach regularly are:

    Music 241: History and Literature I
    Music 341: The Renaissance Era
    Music 342: Music of the Baroque Era
    Music 231: The History of Jazz (Interim)

    In addition, I direct the St. Olaf Collegium Musicum and the St. Olaf Early Music Singers. Other courses I have taught include The Music of Bach, a seminar on Beethoven and his Music, Twentieth-Century Music, and American Music. I have also taught at various times in The Great Conversation, an interdisciplinary program in the humanities at St. Olaf College.

 

  • Research Interests:

    Music in late sixteenth-century Antwerp
    The French chanson and Italian madrigal in the Low Countries
    Compositional procedures of Renaissance composers
    The thirteenth-century French motet
    Music of Andreas Pevernage

     

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