Music

KCS offers a broad range of music learning opportunities in partnership with the Manhattan School of Music.   

Semester courses are included in KCS tuition.  

Lessons

MSM provides a full range of remote music lessons including voice, piano, and strings. Lessons are taught by MSM graduate students using state-of-the-art distance teaching technology specifically developed by MSM and Polycom. Please note: music lessons require an additional charge.

Semester Courses 

Music Theory I 

Prerequisite: Students should have basic performance skills with voice or an instrument.  

This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of music theory including pitch, major scales and key signatures, rhythm, meter, and expressive elements.  

Music Theory II 

Prerequisite: Music Theory I 

This course builds on Music Theory I to explore Minor scales and key signatures, Melody, Timbre, Triads, and Seventh chords 

Music since 1960 

This class explores the historical and cultural forces driving music since the advent of Rock and Roll.  

Global Music  

An exploration of music traditions around the world through the lenses of culture and the movement of people.  

Music Production  

This is a hand-on course using Adobe Audition in which students learn the fundamentals music production to include acoustics, recording, and mixing.