Ear training is an integral part of the course. Courses offered occasionally to students in special areas of Music not covered in the usual curriculum. Public performance is required. The fundamental problems of musical composition, and practice in their solution. Short instrumental and vocal composition and other projects suited to the ability and interest of the student.
Students study score preparation and rehearsal techniques, with a focus on choral literature.
This course examines, from both historical and critical points of view, some basic problems and techniques of musical structure as manifest in European art music of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. This course examines harmonic and compositional procedures in tonal works from the 20th century. Included for study are works representing a wide variety of styles including that of Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Charles Griffes, Alexander Scriabin, Bela Bartok, Phil Glass, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. A four-course sequence in which the history of music is studied in depth. Each course concentrates on a specific time period, examining the music and its relation to the society of the time, as well as making musical analyses.