Monthly Music Circle

The Monthly Music Circle is like a book club for musicians, but instead of reading and discussing one book/month, we analyse and discuss one piece of music/month.

Understanding how harmony works and how pieces are put together is a powerful tool for almost anything you want to do in music - learn pieces faster, memorise music easily and more reliably, improve sight reading - even listening improves. But, like anything else in music, analysis will only lead to those benefits if you practice it.

The Monthly Music Circle is a great way to do just that and in the company of other musicians, which makes it all more fun! If you have a working knowledge of music theory (keys & chords basics), you have all you need to join us.


You can join the Monthly Music Circle here: https://school-of-music-theory.teachable.com/p/sch...


Your Instructor


Lona Kozik
Lona Kozik

I have been teaching music theory and composition since I began my graduate education in 1999. While studying for my MA in Music Composition at the University of Pennsylvania, I started teaching music theory to Penn undergraduates. I have since taught music theory and composition at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, Plymouth University (UK), Dartington College of Arts (UK), and in my own studio at home. I own and operate the Totnes School of Piano.

I entered my undergraduate studies completely focussed on studying piano performance, but I quickly found that studying music theory improved my sight-reading and my ability to memorise music; it heightened my musical expression and understanding at the piano; and it eventually led me to composing music.

I hold dual undergraduate degrees in piano performance and music theory, an MA and PhD in composition from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and two MFAs in performance (improvisation emphasis) and electronic music and recording media from Mills College in California, where I won the Flora Boyd Piano Performance Prize in 2011.

But most importantly, I have a passion for teaching music theory. I believe it is the key that unlocks all musical treasures. It can be engaging in its own right, but music theory, for me, is best viewed as a means toward greater musical expression and creativity.


This course is closed for enrollment.