Piano & Harmony Clinic :: Special Events at Bird

How did Renaissance music lead to the Blues? What the heck is harmony smuggling? Come find out as Bird instructor Nick Culp leads a lecture -- complete with diagrams, audio and live musical demonstrations of various musical genres and styles -- exploring how the origins of early harmony parallel present innovations in popular music, how art imitates nature and what happens when artists bend the rules of composition. Question-and-answer is appreciated throughout the lecture.

Learn:

Overtones and the make-up of the major chord, from medieval music to jazz
Modern extensions: dissonance and consonance, from be-bop to the Beatles and beyond
The evolution of the ear to dissonance
AND MORE!