12567

CNSV 100  Studio Instruction

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PA

PART

4 credits

This course consists of 13 one-hour private lessons with members of the Bard College Conservatory faculty

 

12568

CNSV 102  Composition Tutorial

Joan Tower

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PA

PART

4 credits

This course is for Conservatory composition majors and consists of 13 one-hour private lessons with members of the Bard College Conservatory composition faculty. This course is required for all performance majors in every semester.

 

12569

CNSV 104  Secondary Piano

Erika Switzer

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PA

PART

2 credits  

Students in this course develop technical and musical skills through weekly private lessons in piano. Students are graded based on the quality of preparation for lessons, attendance at lessons, and a final end of the semester jury. This course is open to students at all levels of pianistic skill and experience. This course is open to Conservatory students only. College students wishing to take secondary piano do so through the undergraduate music program.

 

12570

CNSV 110  Chamber Music

Marka Gustavsson

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PA

PART

2 credits

Enrollment in this course is required of all Bard Conservatory performance undergraduates, after their first semester in CNSV 108. Students will be automatically registered for this class, and are assigned or may form their own groups of 2-9 musicians, with whom they commit to the preparation and performance of formative repertoire. Preparation requirements include at least two weekly 90 min rehearsals, and regular coaching which starts after the 2nd week of classes. Performance opportunities: the Chamber Music Marathon, noon concerts, student recitals, performance classes, and guest artist master classes.

12571

CNSV 112  Orchestral Training & Rep.

Erica Kiesewetter

T  Th 7:00 pm-9:30 pm

FISHER PERFORMING ARTS

PA

PART

0 credits

This class will focus on training and performance of orchestral literature (standard and also unusual and contemporary). Bi-annual auditions help familiarize students with this process, and sectionals are held by members of the American Symphony orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and other faculty. Four programs a year including opera, and extra performances in major US cities and abroad. Maestro Leon Botstein is the music director, and guest conductors appear for two programs a year.

 

12869

CNSV 125  Literature and Language of Chinese Music I

Mingmei Yip

W      5:00 pm-6:20 pm

BLUM N217

2 credits

 

12572

CNSV 130  Orchestral Repertoire

Edward Carroll

W      4:45 pm-6:45 pm

PA

PART

2 credits

Works drawn from the core of the symphonic repertoire are studied and rehearsed in 2 hour sessions throughout the semester. This course addresses issues of ensemble playing, intonation and musical expression for wind, brass, percussion and harp players in orchestra. This course also broadens the knowledge of the symphonic repertoire through actual playing experience.

 

12573

CNSV 211  Alexander Technique/Musicians

Alexander Farkas

M         8:30 am-1:00 pm   F       9:00 am-5:00 pm

BITO 210

PA

PART

1 credit

 

12574

CNSV 240  Core Sequence Class II: Theory and Analysis

W      1:30 pm-2:50 pm   Th     8:30 am-10:00 am

BITO 210

PA

PART

4 credits   

Core Sequence in Theory, Analysis, and Composition. Composing in Styles is a class based on the study of musical form, the large scale plan according to which extended works unfold in time. You will learn about these forms by composing four complete pieces within each type, generally these have included 1) a baroque dance form movement-modelled on the Bach solo violin Partitas and the Bach cello suites 2) a set of five variations on a ground bass, 3) a group of waltzes and 4) a complete sonata exposition. The process of composing these involves examining several pieces of each formal type, extracting from them the basic principles of their construction. Then, you will immediately compose sections of the work submitting them to me for suggestions for revision, reworking each section until a musically satisfying and coherent piece within the basic style is achieved. Pre-requisite: CNSV 140 or permission of the instructor. Exemption policy: Students who have composed works in the tonal style can place out of CNSV 240 by submitting a portfolio of these pieces.

 

12575

CNSV 309  Aural Skills IV

David Sytkowski

T  Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm

BITO 210

2 credits.

This is the fourth of four levels of Aural Skills courses offered at Bard. The course aims to continue developing skills that were acquired from Aural Skills I-III. Advanced topics including aural identification of medieval modes, sight-singing of atonal melodies in various clefs, complex rhythm control, modulation, and extended harmonic progressions will be covered, in addition to general reinforcement of previously learned skills. It is recommended that this course and Aural Skills III be taken in the first two years of the Conservatory degree.

 

12576

CNSV 310  Keyboard Skills

Frank Corliss

-

PA

PART

2 credits

A class designed for piano majors who wish to to develop and improve skills in score reading, transposition, sight reading, and playing orchestral reductions.

 

12577

CNSV 330  Core Sequence Class III: Composition for Performers

Joan Tower

T        10:00 am-11:30 am

BLUM HALL

4 credits

Core Sequence in Theory, Analysis, and Composition. The composition seminar is taught by the conservatory composition faculty Joan Tower and George Tsontakis, two of our most celebrated composers and teachers of composition. Students will produce several original compositions to be performed by themselves and others at a final concert. Exemption policy: Students can petition for exemption based on their having produced substantial original works. (Of course, those with an interest in composition will be unlikely to pass up the opportunity to study with two major figures in contemporary music.)

12578

CNSV 332  Core Sequence Class IV: Conservatory Seminar

Christopher Gibbs Eric Wen

M         11:50 am-1:10 pm   W      11:50 am-1:10 pm

BLUM N217 BITO 210

Cross Listed: Music

4 credits

Conservatory Seminar explores the intersection of music history, theory, and performance by concentrating on pieces from the conservatory orchestra repertoire. This semester will focus on Richard Strauss’s Salome and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. We will address broad questions such as how these works were written and first received by audiences, the political and social context in which they were composed and understood, the relationship between the formal structure of the work and others of a similar general type, how the form of the work conveys meaning for particular sets of listeners, and how these meanings have evolved through time. The seminar also considers broader issues in the classical musical culture of our time, including the so-called Death of Classical Music, concert programming, and effective ways to speak and write about music for general audiences. Open to conservatory students and college students with permission of instructor. This course, again with permission, can count toward music history credit for college students.

Class Size: 20

 

12579

CNSV 403  Conservatory Project

Peter Laki

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