Summer 2008 Music Program

• Jumpstart your college music studies
• Hone your skills
• Boost your musical knowledge
• Become more confident in your musicianship

This course is a two-week intensive workshop integrating eartraining, sightreading, theory and basic piano skills. This is an introduction to the basic skills underlying many styles and forms of music, including basic music reading skills, chords, scales, intervals, key signatures, notation, sightsinging, eartraining and dictation. A highly participatory class!

During the day participants may work in the Kerry Hall facilities. These include practice-rooms with pianos and the Digital Lab with computers housing music notation software: Finale and Sibelius.

The class size is between 8 - 12 students, so each student will receive a great deal of individual attention. Classes will meet in Cornish College's historic Kerry Hall on Capitol Hill. Students must be at least 17 years old to register. Priority will be given to those enrolling as full-time students at Cornish in the fall of 2008.

• Further your technical skills of composing and scoring
• Develop a new piece for acoustic instruments
• Hear your work played by a faculty ensemble

This five-day intensive is designed to serve composers who have the notational skills to score a piece for three acoustic instruments. A two hour seminar will take place each afternoon of the week. In the first four days, areas essential to the creative process will be addressed. Focus will be on how to know which of your ideas to develop and how to do so in a way that fully appreciates the natural impulses revealed in the initial materials. Issues of form, shape, color, and proportions will be integrated into the discussions. Each day, students will share the progress of their compositions.

In addition, there will be morning master-classes with faculty instrumentalists. In these one-hour sessions each will present the 'ins and outs' of their instruments; the special sound abilities and contemporary techniques available to composers. On Friday afternoon, the faculty ensemble will read through each student composition. Students can invite guests to attend this open reading and recordings will be made.

During the day participants may work in the Kerry Hall facilities. These include practice-rooms with pianos and the Digital Lab with computers housing music notation software: Finale and Sibelius. Students who are at least 15 years old are welcome to apply, and a total of 12 students will be admitted.