The Juilliard School
New York City, New York, United States
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Developing Classical Guitar Technique

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 ......
 

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 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 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 ......
 

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 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......
 

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......
 

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......
 

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......
 

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&#......
 

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 ......
 

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......
 

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......
 

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......
 

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 ......
 

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......
 

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......
 

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 ......
 

This class is specially designed for those people who have had little or no vocal training. Students will learn the fundamentals of healthy singing through exercises for breath control, pitch, tone production, and phonetics. Each week the student will sing vocalises in a group, and learn corrective exercises for individual problems. Although this is not a performance class, students are welcome......
 

A favorite course for students who enjoy studying, playing, and performing the four-hand and two-piano literature. In a master class setting, this course focuses on rehearsal techniques and interpretation from Mozart to Rachmaninoff and beyond. Section 1: students prepare and study works for both four hands and two pianos. Section 2: students focus on performance details of already studied repe......
 

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