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Corelli’s concerti for string orchestra are a virtual handbook on how to play a string instrument. Strike up new friendships with a vibrant new ensemble that will help you brush up on your technical skills while acquiring a deeper understanding of the musical significance and historical context of Corelli’s masterpieces. Take a journey with works… Read more »
Students will cover the basics of intervals, triads, basic key signatures, and terminology to improve their music reading proficiency.
Learn the basic elements of music notation including pitch, rhythm, scales, intervals, triads, transposition, analysis, and musical terms.Note: this course may be taken as either a single-semester or full-year course. Students may start single-semester classes in September or January.
A continuation of Basic Rudiments, including all key signatures, triads, and extended terminology. Note: this course may be taken as either a single-semester or full-year course. Students may start single-semester classes in September or January.
A continuation of Intermediate Rudiments, including cadences, transposition of some orchestral instruments, and melody writing. Note: this course may be taken as either a single-semester or full-year course. Students may start single-semester classes in September or January.
The basics of four-part chorale writing in the style of Bach, structural analysis, and melody writing.
A continuation of Basic Harmony including modulation, applied dominant and leading-note chords, and structural analysis of larger forms.
Advanced chromatic harmony and modulation to remote keys. Contrapuntal two-part writing covered in Counterpoint is extended to create compositions in the Baroque style.
Materials learned in Harmony are applied to two-part contrapuntal writing in the style of the Baroque period. Introductory fugal analysis included.
Building on the basic analytical skills developed in Rudiments and Harmony, students will explore art song, small and large instrumental forms, the fugal style of J. S. Bach, and important 20th-century compositional techniques.
