Online Classes
Winter 2023
ONLINE CLASSES
Dear Students,
Winter 2023 online Zoom courses are here soon! No homework… just two hours a week of dedicated fun study.
I am excited to announce two BRAND NEW courses!
Harmony and Modulation are essential study for all composers regardless of genre or style. This course covers many of the basic components of harmonic practices from the Baroque to the 20th Century. The readers I have created contain all the theoretical explanations as well as many scores complete with analysis.
Orchestral Score Study is one of the most important ways to learn from the composers you love. The readers I have created contain all the music and scores needed – complete with my own analysis and diagrams which helps speed up the learning process in order to cover as much material as possible.
ENROLLMENT OPTIONS
1) Attend the classes in real time on Zoom
2) Watch the recorded classes later at your own pace
3) Any combination of the two!
Please REGISTER as soon as possible to reserve a space by clicking the button below.
If you know of others who might be interested in these courses, please feel free to pass this information along. I hope to see you soon!
Best,
Steve
Sunday Mornings | / or watch recorded videos
ORCHESTRAL SCORE STUDY SERIES
LOVE AND NATURE
The Music of Tchaikovsky and Copand
Sundays 10am-12pm PACIFIC (February 26 to April 30)
Attend the Zoom sessions or watch the recorded classes on video–whatever fits your schedule!
Topics covered: * The basic fundamentals: How to approach an orchestral score * Form and Structure Charts * Harmony and Key Relations * Motivic/Thematic Development * Counterpoint * Orchestration * Rhythmic Usages * Registral Concerns * Historical context * Harmonic Reductions provided *
Fee: $400.00 USD (10 sessions)
Thursday Mornings | / or watch recorded videos
MUSIC THEORY SERIES
MASTERS OF HARMONY AND MODULATION
The Music of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, and Stravinsky
Thursdays 10am-12pm PACIFIC (March 2 to May 4)
Attend the Zoom sessions or watch the recorded classes on video–whatever fits your schedule!
Topics covered: * Harmonic Practices of the Baroque, Romantic, and 20th Century periods * Techniques of Modulation * Harmonic Reductions * Treatment of Consonances vs Dissonances * Poetics of Harmony *
Fee: $400.00 USD (10 sessions)
Other Courses offered Throughout the year
Topics covered in each course include: How to approach an orchestral score for study, Form and Structure, Harmony and Key Relations, Motivic/Thematic Development, Counterpoint, Orchestration/Texture/Spacing, Rhythmic Usages.
TURN OF THE CENTURY MASTERS—The Music of Ravel and Stravinsky
PROKOFIEV’S Peter and the Wolf
GUSTAV HOLST’S The Planets
MASTERS OF FILM MUSIC—The Music of John Williams and Bernard Herrmann
MASTERS THROUGH THE CENTURIES
– Bach Air on the G String
– Beethoven Symphony No. 5 (Movt 3)
– Tchaikovsky “Overture” to the Nutcracker Suite
– Holst The Planets (Mars)
– Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 (Movt 3)
– Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (Dance of the Earth)
MUSIC THEORY
CHROMATIC HARMONY of the Romantic Composers
Topics covered include: Chromatic Non-Chord Tones, Modal Borrowing, Dominant 9th Chords, Neapolitan Chords, Augmented Sixth Chords (Italian, German, French), Secondary Augmented Sixth Chords (Tritone Substitution), Modulatory Sequencing, Chromatic Sliding Chords, Chromatic Modulation to Far Reaching Keys.
AURAL SKILLS 101
Topics covered include: Basics and importance of Sol Fegge, Sight Singing, Hearing Intervals, Chord Qualities, Hearing Chord Inversions, Recognizing Meters and Rhythmic Patterns, plus… “Be Your Own Mozart”…a special technique I created to help you practice on your own and excel.