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Classes listed below are not always available every term. Please check the class schedule for current offerings. Contact us if you have a suggestion for a specific class. We are adding new classes frequently to our schedule.

Music program

Check out our classes!

Creative Music

Music Makers

Chorus and More

Instrumental Music

Basic Vocal Techniques

Solfege

Lively Arts Camp

Creative Music   

Ages 3½-Kindergarten & School Grades 1-6
Explore the joyful sound of music in song, rhythm games, hand instruments, and listening.  A child's first introduction to the magic world of music.

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Music Makers    

Ages 3½-Kindergarten
A child’s introduction to music should be fun and engaging.  We approach musical skill building with delightful songs, games, movement and playing of instruments.  A fantastic foundation for future vocal and/or instrumental pursuits.

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Chorus and More  

School Grades 1-6
Let your voices soar!  From every child’s natural love of singing we build a foundation that includes ear training, ensemble work, creative expression, vocal production and the first steps in writing and reading music.

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Instrumental Music:  Piano, Violin, Cello, Viola, and Guitar  

School Grade 1-Adult
Children and adults can experience the joy of playing a musical intrument. Beginning and intermediate students can arrange for private or semi-private lessons in guitar, violin, and piano. Most private lessons are 30 minutes long and the times listed are the complete block of time set aside for lessons. Contact our office to schedule lesson day and time.

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Basic Vocal Technique   

Middle School & High School
Become the very best singer that you can be. Whether your interest is in popular music, opera, or Broadway show tunes, learn the basics of projection, breath phrasing, and maximizing your vocal skills. Private and semi-private classes with a limit of 4 students per session are available. No prior vocal training is required. Class days and times are by arrangement. Most lessons are 30 minutes long and the times listed are the complete block of time set aside for lessons. Contact our office to schedule lesson day and time.

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Solfege, Sight singing for string players and other instrumentalists

An introductory class for musicians of all ages, who have studied an instrument for at least one year. The goal is to pick up a piece of printed music and, using either Solfege syllables (the do-re-mi) or musical note letters or numbers, be able to sing, at first sight, the notes on the musical staff. This is a critical ability for string players, particularly when they start moving into the upper positions on the fingerboard. The focus is to develop the student's internal hearing. Beginning with the major scale, students move to musical dictation--simple rhythms at first, then later simple melodies. Some fun songs will be included in order to apply the ideas being studied.

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Lively Arts--Music, School Grades 1-6

Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern and more.  Students will create their own dance production from start to finish.  It is a great way for beginning dancers to experience several forms of dance and show off their new found skills for family and friends.  This camp can be taken separately or as a part of the complete Lively Arts Camp which also includes Lively Arts Theatre Camp and Lively Arts Dance Camp.

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"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
- Robert Schumann
 
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Huxley
 
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music
- George Eliot
 
"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
- J. K. Rowling
 
"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
- Robert Fripp
 
"Music can change the world because it can change people."
- Bono, U2
 
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
 
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Berthold Auerbach
 
"Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony?"
- Leonardo DaVinci
 
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
- Plato
 
"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music."
- Agnes de Mile
 
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Victor Hugo

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9003 SE Stark St
Portland, OR 97216-1664
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