Georgy Gromov's original online course
How to Listen to Music - Easy Start
Georgy Gromov's original online course
How to Listen to Music - Easy Start
This course has been designed specifically for those who don't have music education, but want to get closer to understanding music. It's also great for you if you've attended music school at some point, and now want to frame your knowledge into a complete picture.
The course will help you widen your perception of music and arts, improve your sense of taste, and open up your own creativity. You will discover what's hidden behind the beautiful sounds and melodies, and will start feeling music on another level, which will enrich, enhance and deepen your overall perception of life.
The course takes place online with the conductor, winner of 12 international competitions Georgy Gromov, who has performed in the best venues in 20+ countries around the world.
The course consists of 16 topics covering a huge range of questions, which will greatly upgrade your level of perception
Every lesson comes with a playlist on a given topic alongside with additional music for you to listen to by yourself anytime and anywhere
You get have access to all the meetings and their recordings for 1 year. You can download and use all of the presentations, playlists and additional materials for a lifetime period
The list of suggested music is long enough to enjoy for several years!
These will be 12 months filled with high vibrations, new knowledge,
great positive vibes and lots of fun!
The course is designed and given by Georgy Gromov
- Founder of Classica Viva Music Academy established in 4 countries around the globe
- Conductor, composer, classical and jazz pianist
- Winner of 12 major international music competitions
- Jury member at 18 international music competitions
- PCC ICF Coach
- Board member of the Federation of professional coaches and mentors
- Artist who has performed over 500 concerts in the best concert halls in 20+ countries

PROGRAM
MODULE 1 - Open Your Ears
1.
Major music styles
After this lesson you will be able to identify the composer after just a few seconds of listening to his music!
You will not anymore mix up the music from different time and you will feel confident about the stules of "Middle ages", "Baroque", "Classicism", "Romanticism", "Impressionism", "20th century music" and more.
You will discover obvious and hidden tips to always feel sure and confident when you listen to music.
🎼 Lesson's playlist
🎁 Bonus:
🎼 Selection "The best music of different eras" to never get mixed up again
2.
Myths about classical music
You will learn what skills need to be developed to get a more profound and complete perception of music and arts.
"I don't have music education"
"I have bad pitch"
Is it hopeless?
Of course not!
If classical music required a special music education it wouldn't be accessible to such a huge and diverse audience.
You just need to know what and how to listen to.
🎼 Playlist for practicing your listening skills by yourself
3.
Interpretations
Why do I get bored in concerts, or
"Am I not getting it?"
How to differentiate a bad performance from a good one? How can a bad interpretation destroy the most fascinating piece of music, and how can you identify it?
Developing a good taste.
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After this lecture you'll never get bored in concerts again, and will start enjoying them as an absolutely amazing and captivating experience.
You will also learn how to choose concerts to attend, and not to feel like "you're not getting something".
🎼 Selection "Best pianists' in their best interpretations"
4.
Levels of music listening
Let's turn on your new layers of music listening
Through a special excercise you will discover what it's like to really feel music deeply in your heart and soul. After this lecture the music listening will never be the same for you!
🎼 Playlist "Simple-to-complex"
Engaging all 4 levels of perception!
MODULE 2. Learning How To Listen
5.
Classicism. Part 1
Sonata and Symphony - how to listen to them?
Allegro, Presto, Vivace
No more longing for a concert to end! You will learn the basic terms essential for understanding classical music, will stop fearing the word "symphony" and discover its beauty and simplicity!
🎼 Playlist to review the lesson's material
🎁 Bonuses:
🎼 Selection "Easy symphonies for beginners"
🎼 Selection "Sonatas and symphonies for advanced listeners"
6.
His Majesty Piano the Grand
Hammerklavier, harpsichord, clavichord
How different do these instruments sound and look? Why did the piano become one of the major instruments, and how has it impacted on the development of the world's music?
What do you need to know about pianists, piano techniques, and major piano pieces to feel good when you are in a high society?
🎼 Playlist of pieces for different kinds of piano
🎁 Bonuses:
🎼 Selection "Best piano pieces"
🎼 Selection "Unconventional piano pieces"
7.
Classicism. Part 2
Menuet, landler, bourrée, and other dances
Andante, Adagio
You will discover why only selected pieces by even the greatest composers have survived throughout the centuries. The most significant pieces to know from Mozart and Beethoven.
Watching video fragments
🎼 Playlist to review the lesson's material
🎁 Bonus:
🎥Selection "Best movies about music"
8.
The 9th Symphony
One of the most important pieces in the history of music that became even more actual nowadays.
Why is it so essential to know it?
Ode to Joy
From darkness towards light
Connotations and the message to Humanity
MODULE 3. New Meanings:
From A Beginner To An Advanced Listener
9.
Romanticism
Song, Ballade, Rhapsody, Prelude, Valse, Mazurka, Program music
You will find out how everything got turned upside down, and why it was beautiful🎼 Playlist "Best romantic miniatures"
🎁 Bonus:
🎼 Selection "Best romantic vocal pieces"
10.
The art of performing. Interpretation: where does it start and end?
Facts and interpretation: where is the borderline?
Who are they: romanticists, original performers, or tasteless satraps with no education?
Understand the difference between tasteless and original interpretation. You will get criterias and will be able to argue soundly and logically on music subjects.
Listening and comparing different interpretations from a new perspective
🎼 Playlist "How to ruin music"
Comparing bad and good performances, with Georgy Gromov's explanations
11.
Impressionism
Music in France
Debussy and Ravel
Appreciate the beauty of the moment: unique and exceptional.
Slightest shades that let you feel music with every fiber of your being!
🎼 Playlist that will show you how to recognize even the most subtle nuances
🎁 Bonus:
🎼 Selection "Best interpretations of the main impressionist works"
12.
Cacophony: what is it all about?
Atonal and serial music
How to recognize the beauty hidden behind seemingly incoherent sounds?
Discovering a new world that has defined the present
🎼 Playlist to learn how to listen to a seria
🎁 Bonus:
🎼 Playlist "Beautiful and understandable dodecaphonic pieces"
MODULE 4. The Present. Music relevant for children.
Becoming your family's guide in the world of music
13.
How to select the concerts?
Become a music guide for your friends and loved ones!
Common mistakes while choosing music for specific events and deciding which concert to attend.
Practical advice: how to make an evening in a concert hall enjoyable for people of all ages and backgrounds.
Bonus to make your spouse, children or grandchildren excited about going to a concert. 🎁
📓 Selection of books about music: understandable, informative and fun!
14.
Orchestra and the work of a conductor
Very personal lecture:
Georgy Gromov sharing his own experience and conductor's intimate insights. Simply and openly.
How does an orchestra function, what qualities does a conductor need, and what are the different conducting styles.
A ton of materials to watch and discuss!🎼 Playlist "10 best conductors" in Georgy Gromov's opinion
🎁 Bonus:
🎼 Selection of the best orchestral works for any occasion
15.
Prokofiev and Shostakovich
Cantata, the two 5th Symphonies, film music
These two composers are often mentioned together, although they are antipodes.
The music of the War
Lyricism in Prokofiev's and Shostakovich's works
This lesson will make you understand and fall in love with 20th century music!
🎁 Bonus:
🎼 Selection of the most beautiful pieces by Prokofiev and Shostakovich for beginners
16.
How to develop your child's good sense of taste?
How should you talk about music with a child to support their interest and direct them towards high values?
What to listen to, where to take your kid in order to ground the basis for their good sense of taste to last for their lifetime?
🎁 Bonus:
🎼 Selection "Pieces fot children to develop their pitch and sense of taste"
Only 49€ per month
TESTIMONIALS
Here's what our participants say:
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1. Major music styles
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2. Myths about classical music
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3. Interpretations
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4. Levels of music listening
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5. Classicism. Part 1
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6. His Majesty Piano the Grand
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7. Classicism. Part 2
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8. The 9th Symphony
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9. Romanticism
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10. The art of performing. Interpretation: where does it start and end?
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11. Impressionism
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12. Cacophony: what is it all about?
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13. How to select the concerts?
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14. Orchestra and the work of a conductor
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15. Prokofiev and Shostakovich
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16. How to develop your child's good taste?
PARTICIPATE IN THE COURSE
If you apply now you get access to:
✅ 16 lectures of the course
✅ 16 playlists for all the lessons
✅ Additional selections for those who want to study the material deeper
✅ Movie recommendations
✅ Selection of literature on music
✅ Chat of the group where you can ask Georgy Gromov personally
✅ 1 year long access to the video recordings of the lectures
✅ Lifetime access to the presentations, playlists and additional materials
AND:
✅ 20 additional playlists with great music to enjoy for the few coming years!
✅ 4 extra lectures
You can chose whether to pay the whole amount or pay in installments - at just 49 Euro per month as a special offer for early birds.
You can pay the full price right away, or divide your payment for just 49€/month. Apply now and choose your preferred option from the email.
ADDITIONAL PLAYLISTS FROM GEORGY GROMOV:
🎼100 classical music tracks to enjoy every day
🎼8 tracks to improve your mood
🎼10 tracks to listen to when you're feeling low
🎼15 tracks to enjoy with children
🎼35 tracks for an active morning
🎼Top-20 most popular classical music works
🎼Falling asleep selection
🎼Meditation selection
🎼High vibrations and good vibes playlist
🎼Finding inner balance playlist
🎼Romantic playlist
🎼Anti-stress playlist
🎼Taking your mind off the routine playlist
🎼Family occasion playlist
🎼"Must-know" classical music playlist
🎼Best arias playlist
🎼Best violin works playlist
🎼Sophisticated style playlist
🎼20 most touching classical music pieces playlist
Aaaaaaaand...
4 extra lectures:
1. The development of music from Ancient Greece to nowadays (the appearance of tonality and semantics).
2. How have the instruments been tuned thoughout the years? Why do we only know this kind of music of the latest 300 years?
3. Alive and dead interpretations
4. Music's secret ingredient
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