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 an instrument (or further develop your skills), sing 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 term times
Autumn term:
Mon 22 Sep - Sat 6 Dec 08
Half term: Mon 27 Oct - Sat 2 Nov 08
Spring term:
Mon 12 Jan - Sat 22 Mar 09
No half term
Start and end dates may vary. Please check course details.
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- Advanced string ensemble
- Beginners' string ensemble
- 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 recorder ensemble
- Intermediate string ensemble
- Intermediate treble recorder
- Recorder ensemble
- String quartets
- The City Lit wind ensemble
- Ukulele for beginners
- Ukulele for intermediate/advanced
- Violin/viola advanced workshop
- Violin/viola level 1
- Violin/viola level 2
- Violin/viola level 3
- Violin/viola level 4
- 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
- Introduction to Big Band playing
- Jazz arranging 1
- Jazz composition and arranging 2
- Jazz course year 1
- Jazz course year 2
- Jazz course year 3
- Jazz guitar (primer)
- Jazz harmony and ear training 1
- Jazz harmony and ear training 2
- Jazz piano 1
- Jazz piano 2
- Jazz piano 3
- Jazz singers' workshop 1
- Jazz singers' workshop 2
- Jazz singing 1
- Jazz singing 2
- Jazz vocal improvisation 2
- Jazz: woodshedding for all
- Latin percussion ensemble
- Latin percussion level 1
- Latin piano
- Pop piano 1
- Pop piano 2
- Pop piano 3
- Rock, pop and soul singers' workshop 1
- Rock, pop and soul singers' workshop 2
- Rock, pop and soul singing 2
- Rock, pop and soulsinging 1
- Saxophone level 1
- Saxophone level 2
- Saxophone level 3
- Saxophone level 4
- Saxophone level 5
- Tabla 1
- The bass class
- Writing for Big Band 3
- Bartok and Hungary: a profitable partnership
- Exploring classical music
- Handel - a celebration!
- Inside the BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Jan Ladislav Dussek: his life and contribution
- Jewish music in Britain
- Mahler's first summer retreat
- Mahler's second summer retreat
- Mahler's third summer retreat
- Martinu's Julietta; Janacek's Jenufa
- Mozart's 'Cosi fan tutte' and Verdi's 'La Traviata'
- Music & Philosophy: Mozart and the Enlightenment
- Music and the arts: Schoenberg and Expressionism
- New generations: currents in contemporary music
- Offenbach's 'Les contes d'Hoffmann'; Humperdinck's 'Hansel und Gretel Spring'
- Orchestral song in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Vaughan Williams and the English tradition
- Ableton Live intensive
- Ableton Live plus: advanced techniques
- An introduction to Max/MSP
- Composing and arranging with Sibelius software
- Creating music to picture: integrated approaches
- Cubase audio intensive
- Cubase audio module
- Cubase compact: midi and audio basics
- Cubase midi module
- Cubase midi module plus
- Logic intensive
- Make your own music with Pro Tools
- Making and recording music with Logic
- Making music with Ableton Live
- Mixing and mastering masterclass
- New music: composition and performance
- Pro Tools and professional studio practice
- Reason 1 starting out
- Reason 2 creative tips and tricks
- Reason intensive
- Rhythm, melody and harmony for the computer musician
- Using music software: make your own mp3
- ABRSM jazz piano syllabus
- An introduction to Sibelius software
- Basic conducting skills
- Diploma course for music teachers (ATCL)
- Essential ear training for musicians
- Exploring harmony 1
- Exploring harmony 2
- Exploring harmony 3
- Music theory: elementary to intermediate
- Musicianship for singers
- Musicianship: sounds and symbols 1
- Musicianship: sounds and symbols 2
- Musicianship: sounds and symbols 3
- Rhythm, movement and co-ordination
- The rhythm class
- Vocal musicianship level 1
- Writing song lyrics
- Advanced piano workshop
- Improvisation for pianists: level 2
- Introduction to piano playing
- Keyboard harmony with elements of improvisation 1
- Masterclass: 18th century transition to the romantics
- Masterclass: Czerny and the foundation of piano technique
- Masterclass: French romantics to French contemporaries
- More introduction to piano playing
- Music theory and the listener
- Piano repertoire
- Piano workshop level 3 (mastercalss format)
- Piano workshop level 3 (masterclass format)
- Piano workshop level 4
- Piano workshop level 5
- Piano workshop level 6
- Piano workshop level 7
- Piano workshop level 8
- Piano/keyboards level 1
- Piano/keyboards level 2
- Piano/keyboards level 3
- Piano: play from scratch
- Progress 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
- Music theatre 1
- Music theatre 2
- Opera singing: series 1
- Opera singing: series 2
- Sight sing through sol-fa: 1
- Sight sing through sol-fa: 2
- Sing with confidence
- Singing as performance
- Singing for absolute beginners
- Singing for absolute beginners: intensive
- Singing in English
- Singing in French
- Singing in German
- Singing intermediate 1
- Singing intermediate 2
- Singing: enjoy your voice
- Singing: explore your voice
- Singing: find your voice
- Singing: working towards performance
- The fundamentals of the singing voice
- Vocal maintenance
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