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Aimed at beginner students, this course builds note-reading and listening skills while introducing basic music history to help students better understand their instruments and the music they are studying, and set a foundation for future musical pursuits or exam participation.
Through engaging in-class games and take-home assignments, students will learn the fundamentals of musical notation, including timing, rhythm, pitch, and silence. Students from various instrumental backgrounds will explore the basics of the piano keyboard to help visualize scales. Topics such as tonalities, articulations, and expression markings will be covered.
From children's songs to classical music repertoire, students will listen to music from different eras and genres, discovering prominent composers and their works. Tailored teaching materials will be utilized, and students will be guided to complete final projects near the end of the course to showcase their learning. Certificates will be awarded upon course completion.
The class will be led by new faculty member Ms. Janice Yip.
Class structure
15 min: review
20 min: what's new
5 min: preview next class's material
Students' work will include in-class and take-home assignments
Course Materials
Aged 4-7: Music Theory for Young Children book 1 by Ying Ying Ng
Aged 8-12: Piano theory Introductory One, published by SPK Publishing
Content Overview
- Letter names
- Treble clef and bass clef
- Line note and space note (intervals for aged 8-12)
- note values (whole note, half note, quarter note, 8 th note, 16 th note, rests)
- time signatures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4)
- strong and weak beats
- barline, double-barline, measure
- high vs low notes
- keyboard: black vs white keys, recognition of patterns
- sharp, flat, natural
- key signatures
- ascending and descending scales
- up-bow and down-bow
- staccato and legato
- dynamic markings
- singing simple songs
- solfege, letter names
- major musical eras, composers and styles
Additional topics will likely be covered for ages 8-12 depending on progress, including:
- dotted rhythm
- intervals
- expression markings
- tonic triads of C, G, D, F major
Event Introduction
FREE TRIAL for currently enrolled Seed students
$ 680 for 2 x 45 mins trial class
Regular Course
$ 5,760 for Seed students (20% savings)
$ 7,200 for non-Seed students
Schedule
Ages 4–7
Saturdays 11:15am-12:00pm (starts on March 8)
Ages 8–12
Sundays 11:15am–12:00pm (starts on March 9)
