World music courses
Explore music from different cultures, communities, countries and traditions including Folk, Jazz and Popular styles. There are new topics each year across a growing range of music styles and traditions.
To find out more about music history classes and to read our yearlong selection of courses, please see Music history: your guide to our programme which lists classes ordered by term, and by day of the week. You may then click on each title to read the full course outline.
Our staff are professional musicians who teach, write, broadcast, lecture and/or perform widely. In recent years they have worked with BBC Radio 3, Gramophone magazine, Birkbeck, SOAS (University of London), The Open University, Oxford and Cambridge University Press, Early Music, The Wigmore Hall and the Aldeburgh Festival.
Feel free to browse our programme and do email us at music@citylit.ac.uk with any questions.
- The saxophone story
Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Albi GravenerHow did a musical joke became arguably one of the most distinctive and expressive of all instruments? We will focus on this strand within the history of jazz but not exclusively. - Big Band: from 1920s Chicago to London 2000sCourse start date: Mon 3 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Albi GravenerWe will explore the history and evolution of the big band and large ensemble in jazz throughout the 20th century.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £71.00 Concession £62.00
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