Dates: Thursday, August 16 to Thursday, August 23; no class on Saturday, August 18.
Hours: Weekdays 6.30 PM to 9 PM; Sunday 19th 2 PM to 5 PM.
Location: Regis High School, 55 East 84th Street, New York, NY 10028
Cost: $350.
About the Bootcamp:
The traditional methods and secrets of the Paris Conservatories have long proven themselves as enablers and guarantors of musical success.
Out of these conservatory traditions, Choral Chameleon has forged a simple and effective way of meeting musicians of all levels, where they are, to harness musical intuition and skills they already possess. In this intensive boot camp style workshop, highly experienced teachers of these methods, who also teach these classes to composers and conductors at our Annual Summer Institute, will lead you through adaptive practice routines you can continue on your own long after these first weeks.
We will help choral musicians change the way they listen, the way they process musical information, the way they read music — even out of key context, and the way they perceive their musical selves in just a short amount of time. Heavy concentration on rhythm and singing, in tandem with listening analysis, greatly bolsters personal musicianship skills, while increasing enjoyment of music-making, alone or with others, and makes the practice of these skills fun and more efficient.
Singing newly-written music often means there are no recordings or rehearsal tracks to lean on – this course is highly recommended for choral singers who wish to increase their comfort singing contemporary, or newly-commissioned repertoire.
Participants Receive:
* all materials provided
* patient and highly skilled faculty
* time tested and effective international conservatory approach
* adaptable assignments to meet any level of musicianship
* gain more tonal and rhythmic independence
* decrease fear of mistakes and stage fright
* remove the ego from music making!
* have fun in a supportive and fast-paced environment
We will assess each registered student in advance of the session to group the classes accordingly at the appropriate levels:
Beginner
Those with little or no prior experience in reading music. We will cover the basics of rhythm, pitch, harmony, and the process of synthesis: translating information you see into audiation, and then into performance. Focus will be on simple meter rhythms, melodies with stepwise motion and some leaps in treble clef and bass clef, and oral dictation with rhythm and pitch identifications.
Intermediate
If you already know the basics of rhythm and pitch, the next step will cover more complex rhythms and melodies including compound meter and more leaps and rudimentary chromaticism. Your personal sense of audiation and synthesis will tighten up and become a faster, more intuitive process.
Advanced
Not for the faint of heart, the volume is turned up, covering complex rhythmic constructions including shifts between simple and compound meter with either beat or division constant, melodies outside of diatonic tonality, and multi-voice written dictations. Emphasis will be placed on musical multi-tasking: processing 2 or more musical lines at the same time in listening and performance settings, as well as building strong tonal and rhythmic independence.
To learn more and to register, visit www.choralchameleon.com/ear-training-bootcamp.html.
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