Many Voices, One Song: Beginning Polyphonic Song, with Caitlin Vitale-Sullivan

This class explores the beauty of singing together in harmony. Through an exploration of polyphonic songs from a range of song traditions, we will learn two and three part songs and work on becoming comfortable with dissonance and non-western harmony structures. This course provides students with a full body approach to song learning that stems from listening and feeling music and harmonies to increase comfort in singing. Part singing, part practice, this course will also provide both experienced and new singers with tools for warming up, finding variations in tunes, and tools for development of expressive singing. The course consists of 2 days of instruction with breaks for lunch. Students can expect to learn by ear.