Improve your music theory with the help of expert teachers.
Taking an exam? Want to better understand your music?
Build confidence and mastery with our Music Theory courses, an excellent choice for RCM exam preparation or advancing your musical foundation. Sign up for an 8-week class session on Saturday mornings in Hopewell, NJ.
Music Theory will help you increase your understanding of music, solidify concepts, and prepare for music theory exams. Above all, it will help you develop complete musicianship on and off the piano bench!
Students will solidify fundamental concepts including:
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Note reading
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Rhythms and time signatures
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Intervals
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Key signatures
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Triads, chord progressions, and harmonies
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Musical literacy and analysis
Completing this theory course will set you up for success with tools to understand music on your own. While this course will equip students to take an RCM Theory exam, students do not need to enroll in exams to participate in the course.
Discover the amazing possibilities of 21st-century music!
Viva 21st Century
Listeners often do not know how melodious, beautiful, adventurous, and exciting new music can be; but composers are still hard at work. Dr. Marvin Rosen’s job is to bring to you and share with you musical discoveries - except it is not a job for him; it is a passion! When you enroll in our 21st-Century Music course, you will be entertained as well as educated.
We will share a variety of new music by composers who are from our time and writing today. Students have greatly enjoyed listening to music from all over the world, and many countries, including South Africa, Lithuania, Iran, Australia, and more. New recordings are added continuously. The class has a slight emphasis on piano compositions; however, all instrumentations including choral works are included.
Composers today are writing in many different styles of very enjoyable listening music. It is important that musicians discover this world of possibilities - new music is a young person's experience!
This class will open your ears to wonderful music and creative possibilities.