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January 2021
Name That Tune
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Music But Were Afraid to Ask: Class 1, with David Serkin Ludwig We’ll start off with demystifying the jargon of music and find simple explanations of scales, keys, forms, and everything else you always wanted to know about but were afraid to ask! [...]
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Striking A Chord
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Music But Were Afraid to Ask: Class 2, with David Serkin Ludwig. Following up on melody comes a discussion of harmony, from the first music to have more than one part to the rich chords found in late 19th century Romantic music. How [...]
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Music But Were Afraid to Ask: Class 3, with David Serkin Ludwig. What is rhythm, anyway? Meter? We will explore how time and space are divided up in the narrative canvas of music, looking at meter, pulse, beat, and tempo. Participants will learn [...]
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Music But Were Afraid to Ask: Class 4, with David Serkin Ludwig. The series concludes with an examination of musical form – from analysis of small phrase structures, to the form of individual movements, to the largest structures of entire works. We conclude [...]
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