Phillips Exeter Academy

Music

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...

Vocal Chamber Music
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Students are placed in small ensembles to sing a variety of historical and contemporary vocal styles and literature. Students learn the tenets of singing in a small ensemble and work on vocal production, diction, intonation and performance practice. Vocal...

Exeter Choral Union
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Faculty and community members in this mixed-voice choral ensemble perform major works of choral literature, often collaborating with the Concert Choir, Chamber Orchestra, and soloists. Through twice-weekly rehearsals, students develop their vocalism,...

Concert Choir
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Concert Choir, Exeter’s premiere choral ensemble, offers a rigorous choral experience to those students accepted by competitive audition. The choir performs a wide variety of choral literature representing many traditions and style periods. Through...