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Developing Classical Guitar Technique
Course Format: Classroom
Playing the guitar with freedom and ease comes from understanding technique and how to develop it on a day-to-day basis. It also requires knowing the fingerboard and the patterns of notes that play across it. This course will present a comprehensive step-by-step program that you can use, whatever your level of ability, to steadily advance in your mastery of the instrument. All that is required ...
 

Music Business
Course Format: Classroom
As a performer or composer, your interaction with music publishers, managers, concert promoters, producers, record labels, agents, lawyers, and publicists is a vital part of your music education. It is necessary for performers or composers to understand phrases such as, "we’ll give you 50 percent of the writer’s share of the mechanicals." All musicians must be aware of what ...
 

Sephardic Music and its Roots
Course Format: Classroom
Sephardic music and songs �ballads, cantigas, coplas (calendar cycle songs), canciones (songs performed at the royal courts), romances (Hispanic narrative ballads), and wedding songs �were born in medieval Spain and preserved by the Jewish communities expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition. Sephardic music is richly varied, reflecting the cultures of the various Me...
 

Music Orientation
Course Format: Classroom
Music Orientation is perhaps the most important course the Evening Division offers. This class enhances your enjoyment of classical music by giving you a deeper understanding of what you are hearing. It teaches you how to "listen better," to appreciate how a piece is put together, and to recognize the musical characteristics of different periods. It offers, in one semester, a general ...
 

Music Essentials: Score Reading
Course Format: Classroom
Since many of our Evening Division survey courses require the “ability to read music,�this course is designed for those students who wish to learn how to follow a piano, symphonic, or opera score. You will learn how to read music in treble, bass, and C clefs, basic notation, and musical terms. Emphasis will be placed on musical form, how to recognize the sound qualities of each of the orchestr...
 

Jazz as a Fine Art
Course Format: Classroom
Jazz is often called the quintessential American art form, and, indeed, the development of jazz is closely linked with this county’s social development over the last 150 years. This course will examine the rich history of jazz, from its origins in New Orleans to the so-called Golden Age of the Big Band to the jazz of today, with an emphasis on its relationship to American history and other...
 

Insights Into Wagner
Course Format: Classroom
This course will take a topical approach to Wagner, with a series of lectures covering the composer’s intellectual world, musical style, and influences. Topics will include Wagner and the French, his friendship with Franz Liszt, non-operatic music, the art of transition, the Leitmotif, and Wagner’s influence on the 20th century. Also included will be a lecture on non-traditional casti...
 

The French Connection
Course Format: Classroom
This course will concentrate on the great French composers from three distinct historical periods: François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau from the Baroque era; Hector Berlioz, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel from the 19th century; and Olivier Messiaen and the group of composers known as “Les Six�from the modern era. French composers have always been on the cutting edge, re...
 

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&#...
 

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