In her famous "cours d'accompagnement" at the Paris Conservatory, Nadia Boulanger took great effort to have her students not simply know but rather truly hear and experience the knowledge they were acquiring. To that end, musicianship classes and choral were vital counterparts to her harmony, counterpoint and analysis classes.
Instructor: Mark Shapiro, Lance Horne, Teddy Niedermaier
Eartraining I and II: Level I is devoted to acquiring fundamental keyboard skills. Level II involves teaching strategies for and the practice of sight-reading, transposition and open-score reading in one, two, three, and four-parts.
Score Reading I and II:This more advandced level of musicianship focuses on sight-reading solo and duet piano works, transposing songs, advanced sight singing, and orchestral score reading.