HISTORY
For the adult student, PCM offers a series of music history classes exploring the various genres of Western music. Courses are either six or ten weeks in length. A total of three music history classes will be offered this year. All classes meet for 2 hours and 15 minutes. Below is a listing of classes. Please note that these adult history classes follow a calendar different from the school calendar.
Brahms and Late 19th-Century Romanticism
September 21 - November 30 (10 weeks), Tuesday 10:00 am - 12:15 pm
Instructor: Priscilla Pawlicki
Quarterly Tuition: $275/250*
Described by his friend Robert Schumann as “the savior of German music,” Brahms embodied both the emotional character and daring of late German Romanticism along with the legacy of the composers he worshipped - Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. In his piano works, symphonies, chamber music and vocal compositions, this dichotomy is clear as Brahms looked ahead with changes in harmony and rhythm that would influence early 20th century composers while maintaining a deep affinity for the development techniques of Beethoven and contrapuntal elements of the Baroque. Works by Mahler and Wolf will also be included in this survey of late 19-century Romanticism.
Chamber Music in Pasadena (2011): Camerata Pacifica, Coleman Chamber Music, Ensemble Green, Pacific Serenades and Southwest Chamber
January 4 - March 8 (10 weeks), Tuesday 10:00 am - 12:15 pm
Instructor: Priscilla Pawlicki
Quarterly Tuition: $275/250*
Each season Pasadena’s finest chamber music organizations present both world-renowned artists and award-winning local musicians in a remarkable array of concerts that feature works from Bach to cutting-edge contemporary composers. In this course, upcoming repertoire from Camerata Pacifica, Coleman, Ensemble Green, Pacific Serenades and Southwest Chamber will be discussed in class before the concerts with lectures, recordings and some live performance. Sharpen your listening skills, acquaint yourself with a remarkably varied body of works and enhance your concert-going experiences in a course designed for the general listener and musician alike.
J. S. Bach: The Solo Keyboard
April 5 - June 7 (10 weeks), Tuesday 10:00 am - 12:15 pm
Instructor: Priscilla Pawlicki
Quarterly Tuition: $275/250*
Born into a musical family that showed a remarkable concentration of talent over many generations, J.S. Bach became one of the most significant musical influences in Western music. Described by Haydn as “the man from whom all true musical wisdom proceeded,” Bach was recognized as the greatest clavier player of his time and left a wealth of keyboard music that continues to fascinate and engage both performers and listeners to this day: the Toccatas, French and English Suites, two- and three-part Inventions and Sinfonias, Partitas, the “Italian” Concerto, the two volumes of Preludes and Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor and the Goldberg Variations, one of the greatest keyboard works of all time.
*Students concurrently enrolled in individual instruction at PCM pay the reduced fee.
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