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School: The Juilliard School

The Evolution of Tango
Course Format: Classroom
In this course students will take a journey through more than 100 years of history of this fascinating musical genre. The visual attraction of the tango, combined with its sophisticated instrumental and vocal elements, make it one of the most complex and rich musical forms that ever developed. From DeCaro to Piazzolla, we will explore the tango from angles beyond the popular dance. We will stud...
 

Desert Island Operas
Course Format: Classroom
What if you could bring along just six operas â€?each by a different composer â€?for the rest of your life on a desert island? In this introductory course, we’ll explore the delights of this great art form from contrasting angles. Each of the masterpieces presented in class will be performed in New York next season, allowing students an opportunity, outside of class, to see the operas they&#...
 

Classical Music
Course Format: Classroom
Revolutions in politics, society, and art shaped a turbulent 18th century. Our class begins with the revolutions in music and musical taste that erupted in the 1720s and ’30s, decades before the death of Baroque’s master composer, J.S. Bach. This intriguing overlap of styles â€?their dialogue and exchange as well as their uneasy, often antagonistic coexistence â€?will be considered. As ...
 

Bel Canto Opera
Course Format: Classroom
By the beginning of the 20th century the bel canto operas of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti had virtually disappeared from the repertory, overcome by the more powerful vocal, orchestral, and emotionally immediate styles of late Verdi, Wagner, and the verismo composers. Except for a few operas such as Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Lucia di Lammermoor, bel canto as a style and aesthetic was consid...
 

Baroque Music
Course Format: Classroom
The course will begin with a review of those aspects of late Renaissance music that prepared the radical stylistic changes and new genres of 1600. Our examination of the origins of Baroque style will begin in Italy with the emergence of the “concerto�principle (Giovanni Gabrieli and the Venetian School) and the nuove musiche of early 17th-century masters including Monteverdi and Caccini. We wi...
 

Voice
Course Format: Classroom
Explore vocal technique, performance skills and the vast song literature of art song, opera, oratorio, and musical theater in a class setting. The voice classes are designed to address the needs of singers at all stages of development. The classes are composed of singers selected from competitive auditions, according to ability and experience. Each class begins with a vocal warm-up and the rema...
 

Sight-Reading & Musicianship
Course Format: Classroom
This course comprises a thorough introduction to basic sight-singing procedures. Using syllables in the fixed-do solfège system, students will learn to identify, read, write, and sing melodic intervals of seconds and thirds in treble and bass clefs. Through weekly assignments, students will work to develop a fundamental proficiency in major scales, key signatures, and rhythm up to the value of ...
 

Chromatic Harmony and Analysis
Course Format: Classroom
An advanced study of harmony and voice leading in the Common Practice of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Topics include structural chromaticism, altered chords, modulation, and the evolution of alternate modes of harmonic organization. Theories of harmonic progression by Rameau, Kirnberger, Mathesson, Hauptmann, Riemann, Prout, Jadahsson, Piston, and others will be explored. Works studied w...
 

Literature and Materials of Music
Course Format: Classroom
An introductory course to the Literature and Materials sequence. Students will learn the elements of music and prepare the foundation for materials discussed in later L&M classes. These include notation, symbols, names of notes through fixed-do solfège, clefs, key signatures, scales, major and all three minor scales, modal scales, intervals, triads, and seventh chords, as well as an intr...
 

Harmony
Course Format: Classroom
This course, which is designed to follow the accelerated level of Introduction to Literature and Materials of Music, will address the following questions: What is harmony in music? How does it work from chord to chord? Ultimately how does it control the overall shape of a musical work? The class will study elemental total harmony, its functions, and its relation to other aspects of music, such ...
 

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