HOW DO MUSIC THEORY CLASSES WORK?
Music theory, Song-Writing Techniques and Music History are areas of music that often don’t get taught in a standard singing studio. These classes are online via zoom so are available for anyone anywhere. Students are invoiced $25 per session after each session. Please scroll down to see what’s covered in each level. ALL LEVELS INCLUDE SIGHT-SINGING or DEMONSTRATING THAT YOU UNDERSTAND ON YOUR INSTRUMENT
Theory Level 1
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: Rhythm, Durational Symbols, The Staff, Cleffs, Musical Terms for Speed
Session 2: Writing Pitch, Note Recognition, Lines and Spaces
Session 3: Rests, Ties and Slurs, Accidentals, Enharmonic Notes, Dotted Notes
Session 4: Grouping Notes Together in Time, Simple Time Signatures
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 2
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: What makes a Major Scale? Learning Patterns
Session 2: Key Signatures, Tetrachords
Session 3: Introduction to Intervals, Writing Melody
Session 4: Scale Degrees, Major Triads
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 3
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: Tuplets, Rhythmic Spelling
Session 2: What Makes a Minor Scale? Learning Patterns
Session 3: Minor Key Signatures and Scales, Italian Music Terms
Session 4: Writing Minor Melodies and Italian Music Terms
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 4
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: Bar Line, Double Bar Line, Accentuation in Poetry, Ledger Lines
Session 2: Scale Degrees and Major Chord Progressions in Root Position
Session 3: Cadences
Session 4: Transposition, Music Terms
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 5
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: Intervals in Major and Minor Keys
Session 2: Minor Triads and Minor Chord Progressions in Root Position
Session 3: Identifying Triads, Italian Terms, Types of Staccato
Session 4: The Circle of Fifths – Key Signatures
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 6
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: Circle of Fifths in Progression
Session 2: Shorter Progressions, Analysis
Session 3: Simple time Signatures and Rhythm
Session 4: Compound Duple Time
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 7
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: Inversions of Intervals
Session 2: Introduction to Seventh Chords
Session 3: Leed Sheet Intervals, Roman Numeral Chord Symbols, Modulation from Major to Dominant, Subdominant or Relative Minor
Session 4: Tonic and Harmonic Function
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 8
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: Non-Chord Tones, Passing, Neighbour, Appoggiatura, Escape, Double Neighbour
Session 2: Non Chord Tones, Anticipation, Pedel Point, Suspension, Retardation
Session 3: Form in Popular Music
Session 4: Accompanimental Textures
Session 5: Face to Face Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 9
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: Contrasts Between Sections in a Piece of Written Music
Session 2: Figured Bass – Historical Context
Session 3: Secondary Dominant Chords
Session 4: Secondary Diminished Chords
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 10
FIVE WEEK COURSE
Session 1: Modes
Session 2: Neapolitan Chords and Augmented Chords
Session 3: Modulation and Enharmonic Modulation
Session 4: Binary and ternary Forms
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Theory Level 11
FIVE WEEK COURSE BEGINNING THURSDAY 30 JUNE 1pm
Session 1: Jazz Chord Basics and Specifics
Session 2: How to Write and Analyse Jazz Chords
Session 3: Dominant Seventh Chords and How to Use Them
Session 4: Blues Scales and other Types of Jazz Scales
Session 5: Face to Face – Revision and Test (Singers may zoom if they choose)
Music History
NINE WEEK MUSIC HISTORY COURSE BEGINNING FRIDAY 8 JULY 5.30pm
No pre-requisites
Session 1: Medieval Music
Session 2: Renaissance Music
Session 3: Baroque Music
Session 4: Classical Music
Session 5: Romantic Music
Session 6: Impressionism
Session 7: Expressionism
Session 8: Serialism and Experimental Music
Session 9: World Music