MUSIC
Sound Advice: Enjoying Classical Music
AUTUMN MN108
Wednesdays
Tutor: Michelle Sludds-Hickey
This course offers a guide to enjoying Classical Music, an approach to perceptive listening and an introduction to musical elements, form and stylistic periods from chant to Chopin to Copland. It assumes little or no musical background and is for those who would like to broaden their musical horizons in a friendly atmosphere. The course includes interactive discussions of composers’ lives and their works. We will examine musical characteristics from medieval, baroque, classical, romantic, impressionistic and 20th century eras. We will listen to how music communicates to us and the relationship between composer, performer and listener. Through participation in class, the basics of music ingredients and notation will be explained, with practical exercises in rhythm, melody and listening. Bring a sense of humour, pencil and paper and be prepared to sing and clap! The course includes 2 visits to live concerts (Tickets not included).
| BELFIELD | ||
| 10 Wednesdays | Sep 26, Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Nov 7, 14, 21, 28 | 7.30pm - 9.30pm |
| FEE €190 | Print Open Learning Application Form 2012.13 or ring (01) 716-7123 for Laser/credit card payment |
Tutor Details:
Michelle Sludds-Hickey (BMus (UCD); HDip Ed (TCD); MEd (TCD); Post grad dip in Counselling (TCD); BSc (Psychology); MSc (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - TCD); Clinical Post Grad in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Marriage and Relationship Counselling (ACCORD); Post graddip in Mus Ed (Hungary); LRSM; ALCM) is a counselling psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.Michelle has taught music in Belvedere College, St Kilian's German School, The Conservatory of Music and Drama and in Australia. For 15 years she was church organist and choir mistress in Donore Avenue. She taught and supervised on the BMus Ed course in the Conservatory of Music and Drama and was an RIAM examiner for many years. Michelle won a VEC scholarship to study music education in Hungary, for which she received an Art's Council Bursary. She studied Piano, Classical Guitar and Organ at the Conservatory of Music and Drama during which time she won many scholarships and a continuation grant. She currently works as both a Music teacher and a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.
Provisional list of key topics to be covered:
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Listening to and analysing Classical works from Pre-Baroque to the 20th Century
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Learning basic musical concepts through listening and active participation (singing and rhythmic)
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Attending 2 Classical Concerts
Who is the course for?
This course assumes little or no musical background and is for those who would like to broaden their musical horizons in a friendly atmosphere.
