给未来音乐系学生的信

来自音乐/舞蹈系主任Cathy Block

索伯里是一所习惯于开拓新领域的学校. 也许没有比我们的音乐节目更明显的了.

韦德娱乐app下载地址's music program is current, it is innovative, and perhaps most of all, it is unique. Much of this is because it is inhabited by a 教师 of working music professionals with real-world experience in the music industry and performance arena. 他们会带上他们的联系人, 专业知识, 并将经验带入课堂, as well as creating inventive classes that offer unusual opportunities for students. 当你的老师为戴安娜·罗斯这样的偶像写过歌的时候, or worked with legends such as Leonard Bernstein and Mislav Rostropovich, 一切皆有可能.

此外，我们还有 几个表演团体. 在春天, 音乐系有一个学生乐队比赛, 重奏曲, etc -- one or two groups go to Morningstar Recording Studio and record a demo, 与格莱美获奖工程师格伦·巴雷特合作. Other students are invited to come along for the trip for the experience. 此事件发生在 艺术节, a week devoted to the arts, where many workshops and events are available to 所有的学生.

我们的课程一直在发展, as we often respond to the needs and desires expressed by the current student body. The fact is, you’d have to be in college to find many of the music courses that we offer at Solebury. And even colleges may not offer them, as they are wholly unique and created by Solebury teachers. Here is just a sampling of what we offer throughout the year (some of these classes may rotate from year to year):

独立音乐和它是如何重塑音乐世界
在这个课堂上, 我们将深入了解音乐产业的发展, 它是如何产生和运作的, 以及它降落的地方. This class is all about how the current recording and touring artist shapes and creates a career. One of the things we do in this class is Skype or Zoom with many of the 艺术家 we cover. 我们用skype /放大过的一些艺术家包括Clairo, 乔恩·巴蒂斯特, 地区(以及与他们的经理会面), 点唱机幽灵, Sidd Khosla (tv/film composer for the show "This Is US" and "Only Murders In The Building"), 制片人/电影作曲家丹·罗默(英格丽·迈克尔森), 和《韦德娱乐苹果手机版下载》的音乐), 和WXPN电台主持人. We've also had in-class visits and discussions with 艺术家 such as Ground Up's Alexander Charles Azar. We take questions right to the source with an insider's look into the industry

为大乐队和小乐队打分
Students learn about voicing for horns, woodwinds, and writing for rhythm section. 这是一门高级课程，你可以在音乐学院找到. 在学期结束时，学生们的安排被播放.

爵士理论与作曲
A follow-up to the scoring class, it delves deeper into the compositional aspects of music.

60年代的音乐
This class is all about how the music from this seminal decade changed the world and shaped the future. 这是对音乐的深入研究, 艺术家, 还有当时的知识分子. The class has often enjoyed hearing from Solebury teacher Chris Langhart, who was the technical director of the original Woodstock Festival in 1969.

无伴奏合唱班
This class covers the basics of singing without instrumental accompaniment across different musical styles, i.e. 古典，非洲民间，Doo-wop，灵歌，流行和更多. Students learn the joy of building vocal harmonies while maintaining the rhythmic dance that characterizes a given style. 这是为有经验的歌手设计的课程, and preference is given to those who have completed at least one year of chorus. 其他人则通过试镜录取.

有史以来最伟大的乐队
这是一个有趣的，深入了解最有影响力的乐队，有史以来. 我们看看谁是第一个, 现在又会是谁呢, 为什么, 巴迪·霍利和蟋蟀乐队, 从斯莱和家族之石到涅槃乐队, 让辩论开始吧!

制作音乐与逻辑专业
Students will become familiar with Logic, which is a widely used DAW in the recording industry. 他们将使用Logic编写原创音乐并为电影片段配乐, and receive feedback on their work learning compositional and arranging techniques. 

美国流行音乐
你听谁的歌? From Post Malone to Beyonce, Ariana Grande to Dua Lipa, Adele to the Weeknd—what’s your jam? 从19世纪的吟游诗人一直到说唱歌手, 我们将踏上一段启发性的旅程. Listen to some great music and learn the stories that made the music you love. This is the ever-evolving and profoundly complex story of American Pop music. 它可能会让你大吃一惊

写歌
本课程深入探讨歌曲创作的具体细节. 我们强调发现你自己独特的创作声音, while developing a vocabulary and understanding of what makes other songs, 作家也很棒.

声乐表演工作坊
Vocal Performance Workshop is a master class on vocal training and performance. 它强调声乐技巧的培养, 学会在研讨会中建设性地批评同事, 和执行. 
 

许多事情使索伯里成为一个独特的教育经历, 索伯里音乐课程当然是其中之一.