Monday 7 – 9 pm 
Begins September 14 (fall), January 11 (spring)

A two-semester course

The most valuable way to acquire music skills is through successful performance of a difficult passage. During every class, an aspect of music study is isolated and each student recites it in a “test” performance. All sight-singing uses the fixed-do solfège system and conducting patterns in two, three, or four. Rhythm exercises include subdivisions of two, three, four, six, and eight parts to the beat, in simple or compound meter. Dictations for practice or tests are given each week and will include harmonic or melodic intervals up to perfect fifth, major and minor scales, rhythm, or one-part melodies in treble or bass clef. The spring project involves memorized recital of a repertory piece in fixed-do solfège while conducting. Prerequisite: Sight-Reading II, Introduction to Ear Training, or equivalent; knowledge of all key signatures, spelling of major and minor scales and all intervals, familiarity with rhythmic notation, ability to divide a beat into two equal parts. Placement interview required. Not subject to N.Y. Philharmonic discount.