Online Learning Centre

Welcome to the Learning Centre!

This curriculum is broken into a series of e-courses, grouped by Period/Era of musical history.

Sign-In to your Hub Account to TRACK YOUR PROGRESS as you complete each lesson!

This site is currently considered in the BETA STAGE of development, and far from a finished tool. Some course modules are fully online, while others are still going through a state of revision - YOU WILL ENCOUNTER SOME BUGS AND LINKS THAT LEAD NOWHERE FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. Please know that the site is being developed constantly and will be fully operational as soon as possible.

Renaissance and Baroque modules are 98% completed, with minor edits and revisions still occurring. The Remaining Modules (Classical, Romantic, Modern, Atomic, Millennial) are in varying stages of completion with most repertoire positioned into place, but the remaining lesson plans are still in a state of being created and developed.

A number of smaller Mini-Course Modules are also in development with more announcements coming soon

In Each Lesson you will find:

  • Title Video/Key Performance - Each lesson begins with a video of a performance by one of the world’s leading singing groups. Watch these video all the way through, they are intended to be “Essential Listening” to help you understand either the general sound of a specific composer OR to highlight an essential work that is constantly performed today

  • A Biography and Information Section - detailing the important influences on the composer. This section in its current form pulls largely from the Enclyclopedia Britannica, which offers succinct, well-researched, fact-checked information that is freely available to the public

  • a MORE From This Composer Section including curated publicly available works by the compeers

(NOTE ABOUT CONTENT: We are working to fully match this curriculum to the RCM Syllabus so both tools can work together in tandem)

View Available Courses

  • (INTRO) Early Music

    -1300

    Pre-Renaissance Music-Making: How Music Spreads From One Culture to Another

    Gregorian Chant, Hildegard von Bingen, Medieval Music

    9 Lessons

  • The Renaissance Period

    1300-1600

    Early Polyphony, Part-Songs, Madrigals, Chansons, and Polychoir. Venice and BEYOND

    Highlight Composers: G Gabrieli, C. Monteverdi, T. Tallis, W. Byrd, GP Palestrina

    21 Lessons

  • The Baroque Period

    1600-1750

    The Cantata, The Oratorio, The Opera - Music finds form and function!

    Highlight Composers: JS. Bach, GF. Händel, A. Vivaldi, MA Charpentier

    34 Lessons

  • The Classical Period

    1750-1820

    The Sonata, The Symphony, The Piano

    CPE Bach, WA. Mozart, J. Haydn, LV Beethoven

  • The Romantic Period

    1820-1890

    Lieder, Requiems, Poetry and Expression

    J Brahms, F Schubert, Robert and Clara Schumann, G Mahler, S Rachmaninoff

  • The Modern Era

    1890-1945

    Modernism in Music

    Music of the Soviet Union

    B Britten, A Copland, Shostakovich

  • The Atomic Era

    1945-2000

    Post-War Music

    Post-Modernism

    Eric Ericson and the First Professional Chamber Choir

  • The New Millennium

    2001-

    Choir in the Digital World

    Global Musical Movements

Special Topics: History

  • Singing Revolutions

    The Swedish Choral Miracle (1945-2000)

    The Baltic Singing Revolution (1987-1991)

  • Indigenous Voices

  • COVID-19: Pandemic Music-Making

    The Virtual Choir
    Car Choir