Category: Past Season

Voci members (past & present): $165
Nonmembers: $215

Registration deadline January 15, 2021

This 6-week online course, taught by Voci Artistic Director Mitchell Covington, is for choral singers who want to hone their musical understanding and sight-reading ability.

Class size will be 8–10 students.

Musical terms and concepts will be introduced with visual and audio examples and clear, useful handouts. This interactive class will include lots of practice and opportunities to ask questions in real time. Light homework will be assigned each week.

To participate in this session, you should already know:

• How to sight-read basic rhythms and melodies
• Interval concepts (what is a 3rd? what is a 7th?)
  • You do not need to know about major/minor intervals; you will master this by the end of the course
• Key signatures; sharp keys: G, D, A and E major and flat keys: F, B♭, E♭ and A♭ major
• The pattern of whole steps and half steps in a major scale
• Triads (you will learn more about triads in this course)
• Tonic and dominant, root and fifth
• Ledger lines
• Triplets

A link for access to the online workshop will be sent by mid-January to all registered participants.

Voci members (past & present): $150
Nonmembers: $210

This 6-week online course, taught by Voci Artistic Director Mitchell Covington, is for choral singers who want to hone their musical understanding and sight-reading ability.

Class size will be 8–16 students.

Musical terms and concepts will be introduced with visual and audio examples and clear, useful handouts. This interactive class will include lots of practice and opportunities to ask questions in real time. Light homework will be assigned each week.

To participate in this session, you should already know:

• Note names on the treble staff and on the piano
• The meaning of white and black keys on the piano
• Note values, including whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note and sixteenth note
• What the dot in a dotted note does
• Accidentals (flat, sharp, natural) and how they work
• Bar lines, measures and meter
• The number of beats in one measure of a given piece of music

A link for access to the online workshop will be sent by mid-September to all registered participants.