Longy School of Music of Bard College COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Longy School of Music of Bard College COURSE DESCRIPTIONS The following is a list of courses currently offered in the Conservatory at Longy School of Music of Bard College. Courses run annually, for either one or two semesters per year, unless otherwise stated. Prior to registration, the Academic Affairs Office publishes a list of the next semester’s course offerings with updated information on meeting times and instructors. The instructors listed below are projected to be teaching in 2017-2018 and are subject to change. The school reserves the right to cancel classes for enrollment or other reasons. Most classes are offered for one or two credits. Typically, one-credit classes meet for 75–90 minutes per week, and two-credit classes meet for 120–180 minutes per week, with some exceptions. All credit amounts listed below are given per semester. Courses at the 100–400 levels are generally taken by undergraduates, while courses at the 500–700 levels are generally taken by graduates. In addition to registering for classes each semester, students must register for juries or recitals in the appropriate semester. PRIVATE STUDIO INSTRUCTION criticism. Each group will be expected to Course: CP501 (1 credit) present a paper on stylistic, compositional, and Instructor: Moll Full-time degree and diploma students (with interpretive aspects of the work they are This class covers various aspects of vocal the exception of those in the Opera studying. Permission of the instructor and coaching and familiarizes students with the department and those in the third year of Chamber Music Chair required. Fall semester skills essential for rehearsing and performing Dalcroze study) register for fifteen hours of only. May be repeated for credit. pianists. Fall semester only. Offered in alternate private lessons per semester (graduate: 2.5 years (Fall 2018, Fall 2020, etc.). credits; undergraduate: 3.5 credits). Opera Horszowski Trio Class students divide their lesson credits (3 per Course: ES613 (1 credit) Techniques of Chamber Music Coaching semester) between a vocal instructor (Dramatic Instructors: Aizawa/Mills Course: CP502 (1 credit) Coaching for 2 credits) and a coach (Musical Course description not yet available. Instructor: Chin Coaching for 1 credit). This course seeks to develop necessary skills World Music Chamber Ensemble and knowledge for collaborative pianists, and CHAMBER MUSIC Course: ES615 (1 credit) other instrumentalists by permission of the Instructor: Blanco instructor, to become effective chamber music Chamber Music Ensembles This class will contribute to the disappearance coaches. Permission of instructor required. Course: ES402/ES602 of a line of division that has existed for Offered Fall and Spring semesters. (undergraduate/graduate) (1 credit) centuries between the so called “Classical” & Instructors: Faculty “Popular” music; the manifestations of musical Advanced Techniques of Chamber Coaching Ensembles are formed each semester and aesthetic tendencies of our times, increasingly Course: CP503 (1 credit) coached by a faculty member. An end-of- reflects into a more holistic music society. Instructors: Aizawa/Mills semester performance is required. Offered Fall Therefore, the musician of the 21st century Course description not yet available. and Spring semesters. May be repeated for should not be categorized any more by either credit. one. These ensembles will focus on repertoire Literature and History of Chamber Music that will help improve the awareness of Course: CP505 (1 credit) Begin Anywhere: Creative Chamber Music rhythm, harmony, stylistic diversity, musical Instructor: Moll Course: ES610 (1 credit) textures and above all, the development of This one semester non-performance class will A course focused on customized and unique individual and collective alertness and response present an overview of the important chamber collaborative creation. Developing student to different musical instances during a music literature with piano. It will be open to all creativity using Universal Musical Elements performance. Spring semester only. May be students and through listening, reading, including composition/arranging, repeated for credit. analysis, and projects expose students to this improvisation, performance, product/program music and to the historical context of the design for performances in outside venues, Chamber Music with a Point of View: Identity music. Required for Collaborative Piano Majors professional recording and video, audience Course: ES616 (1 credit) and open to all other students. Fall semester development, personal bios, media/web Instructors: Williams/Veselov only. presence, and marketing momentum. Students The class will be open to all students by are the directors. Open to a maximum of ten permission of the instructors, utilizing Operatic Repertoire students by permission of the instructor and interdisciplinary entry points, such as poetry, Course: CP506 (1 credit) chamber music chair. Full-year ensemble. improvisation, literature, dance, and visual art, Instructor: Moll culminating in a public performance in the fall This class will focus on ways to play operatic Advanced Chamber Music Seminar semester. The class will encourage students to repertoire successfully, focusing on important Course: ES612 (1 credit) find within their repertoire elements that they standard arias of the major voice types. All Instructor: Merfeld wish to explore and enhance via a performance participants will examine the full score, listen to This course will offer in-depth study of chamber utilizing other disciplines. The theme will center recordings with orchestra, and be music repertoire, focusing on the work of one around "identity" and the many forms in which knowledgeable of the plots and translations of composer or works from a specific period. The that can be expressed. Students will be all material covered. This course is open to all specific repertoire for study will be determined expected to market and produce a final singers and will involve some basic conducting by the instructor and will reflect works that are culminating concert. Fall semester only. of arias to emphasize the need to lead in particularly “conversant” with each other. In playing and coaching this repertoire. Mock addition to intensive coaching, the class will COLLABORATIVE PIANO juries will also provide the opportunity for offer opportunities for the participants to pianists to improve sight reading and audition develop skills in analytical and creative Techniques of Vocal Coaching skills. Required for Collaborative Piano Majors Longy School of Music of Bard College 1 and open to pianists and singers. Spring Harmony 1 shown from exercises completed by composers semester only. Course: TH111 (2 credits) such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. The Instructor: Van Buskirk or Bennett basic of invertible counterpoint will also be Intermediate Collaborative Piano Skills An introduction to harmony and harmonic explored. Modal, tonal, and dissonant Course: CP409/609 (undergraduate/graduate) analysis through written and keyboard approaches will be explored. Ear-training and (1 credit) exercises, dictation, harmonization of melodies score analysis will be integral features of course Advanced Collaborative Piano Skills and bass lines, and the study of harmonic work, as students will learn the value of species Course: CP411/CP611 idioms. Offered Fall and Spring semesters. counterpoint both from a creative and a (undergraduate/graduate) (1 credit) Prerequisite: TH098 or placement. reductive point of view. Class will involve Instructor: Moll multiple compositional projects and in-class This class will consist of weekly classes of two Harmony 2 performances. Prerequisite: TH113 or levels, Intermediate and Advanced, based on an Course: TH112 (2 credits) permission of the instructor. Fall semester only. evaluation by the instructor. The class will work Instructor: Brust or Van Buskirk on skills needed to be a successful collaborator, A continuation of Harmony 1. Offered Fall and Counterpoint: 18th-century and students will receive guidance on how to Spring semesters. Prerequisite: TH111 or Course: TH422/622 play orchestral reductions, play with placement. (undergraduate/graduate) (2 credits) instrumentalists and singers, and learn parts for Instructor: Evans duo assignments. The repertoire covered will Harmony 3 A one-semester study of counterpoint focusing be based on each pianist’s current needs in Course: TH113 (2 credits) on basic voice-leading techniques and the addition to repertoire covered in class or studio Instructor: Aldins treatment of dissonance and imitation. Spring assignments. Guest singers and instruments will A continuation of Harmony 2. Offered Fall and semester only. Prerequisite: Species be invited as needed to collaborate. Full-year Spring semesters. Prerequisite: TH112 or Counterpoint or permission of the instructor. course. placement. Counterpoint: Canon, Invention, and Fugue Collaborative Piano Department Seminar Harmony 4 Course: TH423/623 (undergraduate/graduate) Course: CP612 (0.5 credit) Course: TH211 (2 credits) (2 credits) Instructors: Moll/Faculty Instructor: Aldins or Brust Instructor: Evans Longy faculty and guest teachers present A continuation of Harmony 3, with greater How to compose these types of music, from seminars, lectures, and master classes on emphasis on chromatic harmony, analysis, and two to four voices, and perhaps beyond. interpretation, repertory, and analysis. Full- keyboard work. Offered Fall and Spring Largely