Phillips Exeter Academy

Music

Advanced Music Production
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This course provides advanced instruction for students interested in improving their mastery of digital music production. Students will explore production techniques, project development and creative practice. Students with interests in all musical genres are...

Advanced Instrumental/Vocal Study II
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This intensive performance course is for the most advanced instrumentalists and vocalists and culminates in a public recital. In twice-weekly classes students have the opportunity to perform for each other, receive constructive feedback, and address common...

Music Mixing and Recording
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This course will give students hands-on instruction in the craft of recording and mixing music across multiple genres. Through focused discussion, experiential recording and in-depth mixing projects, students will learn the following: foundations of...

Chamber Orchestra
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The Chamber Orchestra offers an intensive ensemble experience for advanced string and woodwind players. The skills, craft, and discipline of orchestral playing are developed in-depth through the study of repertoire for small orchestra: Baroque concerti...

PEA Band
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The PEA Band is an opportunity for wind, brass, percussion and electric instrument players of all levels and abilities to study and perform music together. This ensemble operates as a pep band in the fall and winter, allowing students to perform in the stands...

The Hispanic World Through Its Music
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Sound, beat, and sense (son, latido y sentido) “Son,” a pleasant music to your ears; “latido,” your heart beating; “sentido,” a sense of meaning.. The first known literature in the Spanish language dates back to the 11th...

Private Lessons
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Private music lessons offer students an individualized learning experience with a private instructor. In the lessons, students develop technique and expression, while they explore the repertoire for their instrument. Students receive one 50-minute lesson per...

Global Rhythm Ensemble
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In group classes, students learn basic playing techniques of the hand-drumming traditions of West Africa, the Caribbean and Brazil. They develop their rhythmic skills and sense of ensemble, and experience the special energy and excitement of ensemble...

Modern Music Making
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This course is a workshop for students interested in making modern styles of music, primarily through technology. Students will develop their technique, their aesthetic and their ears by working on multiple collaborative and independent projects across a...

Instrumental Chamber Music
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Students are placed in trios, quartets, quintets and other small ensembles to experience the special give-and-take of playing chamber music. Instrumental combinations include strings, winds, brass, piano, percussion and harp. While working on refining...