Study music composition, poetry and performance with renowned musician, poet, and performer Roy Nathanson.

 

Text/Music Forms- Through a selected body of work  (Ives, Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Ellington and Cole Porter) students will examine the text and compositional aspects of the art song, blues form and the AABA song form utilized in traditional jazz songs.  Students will learn to actually write both the music and text in these songs.  Students will orchestrate and perform their work at the end of this concentrated week long workshop.