Description

**Program of the Keyboard Harmonization Class: Daily Brain and Digital Gymnastics**

1/ Cadences and Harmonic Marches for Transposition.
2/ MEMORY training with short fragments of repertoire after analysis and without the aid of the instrument.
3/ TRANSPOSITION of repertoire fragments after analysis.
4/ EAR training: Memorization and reproduction of a heard fragment.
5/ Very rapid ANALYSIS of repertoire works.
6/ Introduction to HARMONY: Harmonization of baroque, classical, and romantic melodies.
7/ Introduction to COUNTERPOINT: Reversible counterpoint (two-voice inventions), canon, fugue, imitations.
8/ BASSO CONTINUO: Mastery of baroque figured bass.
9/ Introduction to IMPROVISATION.

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Isabelle Duha studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the classes of Specialized Solfège, Harmony, Counterpoint, and Fugue. She studied piano under Germaine Mounier and Yvonne Loriod. She teaches musical language: harmony, counterpoint, Keyboard Harmony, basso continuo, memorization, and improvisation at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm), and the Issy les Moulineaux Conservatory. She is invited to conduct masterclasses in France at the American Schools of Art in Fontainebleau and abroad, notably at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands. As a concert pianist, she performs chamber music concerts with numerous partners. She gives lecture-concerts on topics related to musical language: Bach’s musical language, the meeting point between the vertical and the horizontal / Schumann: mastering imbalance / Debussy: pleasure is the rule / The Art of the Russian Ballets. She is the author of a pedagogical work: “Harmony in Freedom” published by Billaudot Editions.