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Explore the art of music composition in the heart of NYC with classes ranging from classical to contemporary, where participants can discover harmonies, melodic structures, and composition techniques for various genres.

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60-min Music Composition Lesson for ages 11+

New York City Piano Academy @ Interactive Live Online

Unleash your musical creativity and develop your unique compositional style with the comprehensive music composition training offered at NYCPA. Explore music theory, analysis, techniques, notation, and historical perspectives, and create original music across different genres. 

All levels 11 and older
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World of Music I: For Movies — Composers & Songwriters

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Music and movies have been inextricably and often gloriously linked since before the “talking picture” in the later 1920’s. This semester we take a broad-ranging look at some of the greatest music ever written for film, whether in the hands of such exceptional composers as Bernard Hermann, Erich Korngold, Aaron Copland, Ennio Morricone, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Glass, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith — to name only a few; or songwriters...

(1098) All levels 18 and older
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$575

12 sessions

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Behind the Mix of a Hit Song

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

How does a song like Kesha’s “Woman” become the track, Kesha: “Woman?” What goes into the process of building a fully-produced pop music megahit? How does a sophisticated studio production transfer to live performance, whether in a small club or sold-out arena? Find out from Kesha’s own musical director, David Cook, as he pulls back the curtain on the production process in this all-new class in our all-new tech lab. David will bring...

(1098) All levels 18 and older
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$150

3 sessions

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Music Theory - Harmonic Concepts

Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY

To become familiar with harmonic concepts which will give students more options for color in their compositions. In this course, we will make use of popular video game music to cover modal interchange (day 1) & reharmonization (day 2), two time-honored methods of adding flavor to a composition. Both courses will involve in-class work (students should bring in pencils & manuscript paper), lecture segments, and class exercises. The classes...

(68) All levels 18 and older
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$40

2 sessions

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New Moon Sitar + Restorative Yoga

Sacred Arts Research Foundation @ 107 Green St, Brooklyn, NY

Celebrate and honor the new moon time with a deep restorative yoga practice accompanied by the healing vibrations of live sitar. A restorative yoga practice during the New Moon and Vata phase of the lunar cycle is best for balancing an overworked mind, hormones, emotions and energy. Once a month surrounding the new moon time at SARF we host a deep restorative practice as part of our Community Yoga series. A restorative practice is truly meant for...

(9) All levels 12 and older
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Timothy Hampton: Deconstructing Bob Dylan

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

In 2016 Bob Dylan became the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, placing him in the company of writers including John Steinbeck, Pablo Neruda and Toni Morrison. Timothy Hampton, professor of literature at UC Berkeley and author of the new book Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work, joins us for a class exploring the poetry, politics, and musical fabric of Dylan’s songs. From the landmark protest songs of the 1960s (“Blowin’...

(1098) All levels 18 and older
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$132

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Reviews for Music Composition Classes in NYC

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  • Timothy Hampton: Deconstructing Bob Dylan

    Reviewed by Mark H. on 2/16/2021
    Fabulous and interesting course. Timothy was very knowledgeable and engaging. Wish this could have been a longer course...so much Dylan material to cover.
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