Music
City Lit offers a wide range of music courses at many levels to suit your needs and aspirations, with highly sympathetic and motivated teachers. You can learn to play a wide range of instruments (or further develop your skills), explore jazz, learn or improve your singing and work in our professionally-equipped music technology studio. You can talk to us about which course or level would be right for you and there are various performance opportunities.Music spring term times:
Mon 12 Jan - Sat 22 Mar 09
No half term
Start and end dates of courses may vary. Please check course details.
Contact us: 020 7492 2630 music@citylit.ac.uk
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- Advanced string ensemble
- Beginners' string ensemble
- Beginners' treble recorder
- Building a string performance
- Cello level 1
- Cello level 2
- Cello level 3
- Cello: advanced workshop
- Chamber music ensembles
- Clarinet level 1
- Clarinet level 2
- Clarinet level 3
- Clarinet level 4
- Clarinet: advanced workshop
- Classical guitar ensemble
- Classical guitar level 1
- Classical guitar level 2
- Flute level 1
- Flute level 2
- Flute level 3
- Flute level 4
- Intermediate string ensemble
- Intermediate treble recorder
- Jazz flute
- Record your performance!
- Recorder ensemble
- String quartets
- The City Lit wind ensemble
- Ukulele for beginners
- Ukulele intermediate
- Violin/viola advanced workshop
- Violin/viola level 1
- Violin/viola level 2
- Violin/viola level 3
- Violin/viola level 4
- Advanced jazz piano seminar
- Afro-Cuban drum and dance workshop
- City Lit a cappella
- City Lit Big Band
- Drumming level 1
- Drumming level 2
- Folk and pop guitar level 1
- Folk and pop guitar level 2
- Folk and pop guitar level 3
- Improvisation for jazz singers
- Introduction to Big Band playing
- Introduction to jazz singing
- Introduction to tabla
- Jazz arranging 1
- Jazz clarinet
- Jazz composition and arranging 2
- Jazz course year 1
- Jazz course year 2
- Jazz course year 3
- Jazz guitar
- Jazz harmony and ear training 1
- Jazz harmony and ear training 2
- Jazz piano 1
- Jazz piano 2
- Jazz piano 3
- Jazz piano taster
- Jazz singers workshop 2
- Jazz singers' workshop 1
- Jazz singers' workshop 2
- Jazz singing 1
- Jazz singing 2
- Jazz vocal improvisation
- Jazz vocal improvisation 2
- Jazz year 4
- Jazz: woodshedding for all
- Latin percussion ensemble
- Latin percussion level 1
- Latin piano
- Latin piano taster
- Overcome stage fright (for singers)
- Overcome stage-fright (for singers)
- Pop piano 1
- Pop piano 2
- Pop piano 3
- Prepare for pop piano
- Rock, pop and soul singers' workshop 1
- Rock, pop and soul singers' workshop 2
- Rock, pop and soul singing 1
- Rock, pop and soul singing 2
- Rock, pop and soul singing: beginners
- Samba day
- Saxophone level 1
- Saxophone level 2
- Saxophone level 3
- Saxophone level 4
- Saxophone level 5
- Swing jazz rhythm notation
- Tabla 1
- Tabla 2
- The bass class
- Writing for Big Band 3
- "The Great Anticipator": Charles Ives
- Beethoven and TS Eliot
- Exploring classical music
- Henry Purcell - Orpheus Britanicus
- Inside the BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Jewish music in Britain
- Mahler's first summer retreat
- Mahler's second summer retreat
- Mahler's third summer retreat
- Music and literature: Faust/Goethe and Berlioz
- Music and philosophy: Schumann and German Idealism
- New music: where is the avant-garde today
- Prokofiev's The Gambler and Janacek's Katya Kabanova
- Puccini's Turandot, Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle and Tchaikovsky's The Slippers
- Song into symphony
- The genius of Handel and Haydn
- The Mendelssohns - Felix and Fanny
- Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
- Ableton Live masterclass with Martin Delaney
- Ableton Live Plus: advanced techniques
- An introduction to Max/MSP
- Composing and arranging with Sibelius software
- Fast-track music production with Ableton Live
- Fast-track music production with Cubase
- Fast-track music production with Logic
- Fast-track music production with Reason
- Making and recording music with Cubase
- Making and recording music with Garageband
- Making and recording music with Logic
- Making music with Ableton Live
- Making music with Reason
- Max/MSP advanced techniques
- Mixing and advanced music production techniques
- Mixing and mastering masterclass
- Music for Film 1 - The Process
- Music for Film 2 - The Practice
- New music: composition and performance
- Pro Tools and professional studio practice
- Reason plus: creative tips and tricks
- Rhythm, melody and harmony - music's fundamentals
- ABRSM jazz piano syllabus
- An introduction to Sibelius software
- Basic conducting skills
- Composing for beginners
- Diploma course for music teachers (ATCL)
- Essential ear training
- Exploring harmony 1
- Exploring harmony 2
- Exploring harmony 3
- Music theory: elementary grades 1-2
- Music theory: elementary to intermediate
- Musicianship for singers
- Musicianship: sounds and symbols 1
- Musicianship: sounds and symbols 2
- Musicianship: sounds and symbols 3
- Song lyric writing: Imagery
- The rhythm class
- Vocal musicianship level 1
- Vocal musicianship level 2
- Writing song lyrics
- Writing song tunes
- Advanced piano workshop
- How to practise piano: level 2-4
- Improvisation for pianists: level 2
- Introduction to piano playing
- Keyboard harmony with elements of improvisation 1
- Masterclass: how to deal with nerves in performance
- Masterclass: Viennesse classics
- More introduction to piano playing
- Piano / keyboards level 1
- Piano / keyboards level 2
- Piano / keyboards level 3
- Piano / keyboards revision for beginners
- Piano repertoire
- Piano revision level 1
- Piano revision level 2
- Piano workshop level 3 (masterclass format)
- Piano workshop level 4
- Piano workshop level 4 (masterclass format)
- Piano workshop level 5
- Piano workshop level 6
- Piano workshop level 7
- Piano workshop level 8
- Piano: play from scratch
- Progress in piano playing
- Record your performance!
- Scryabin - synthesis of colour and key
- Second steps in piano playing
- Second steps in playing
- The art of accompaniment
- A cappella
- Acting workshop for singers
- Alexander technique for singers
- Basic technique for solo singing
- Building a song recital
- Choral singing for pleasure
- City opera
- Consolidate your singing
- Develop your singing
- Find your voice
- Fundamentals of the singing voice 1
- Fundamentals of the singing voice 2
- Introduction to accent breathing for singers
- Music theatre 1
- Music theatre 2
- Opera performance workshop
- Opera singing series part 1
- Opera singing series part 2
- Scandinavian song repertoire
- Sight-sing through sol-fa: 1
- Sight-sing through sol-fa: 2
- Sing with confidence
- Singing as performance
- Singing audition technique
- Singing for absolute beginners
- Singing for absolute beginners: intensive
- Singing in English
- Singing in French
- Singing in French advanced
- Singing in German
- Singing intermediate 1
- Singing intermediate 2
- Singing: explore your voice
- Singing: find your voice
- Singing: working towards performance
- Vocal maintenance
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Music for film 2 - The Practice For composers, music producers and sound designers this course offers a comprehensive introduction to the practice of composing for film
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