WordNet
n. a lesson in performing music
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Music lessons are a type of formal instruction in playing a musical instrument or singing. Typically, a student taking music lessons meets a music teacher for one-on-one training sessions ranging from 30 minutes to one hour in length over a period of weeks or years. For vocal lessons, teachers show students how to sit or stand and breathe, and how to position the head, chest, and mouth for good vocal tone. For instrument lessons, teachers show students how to sit or stand with the instrument, how to hold the instrument, and how to manipulate the fingers and other body parts to produce tones and sounds from the instrument. Music teachers also assign technical exercises, musical pieces, and other activities to help the students improve their musical skills. While most music lessons are one-on-one (private), some teachers also teach groups of two to four students (semi-private lessons), and, for very basic instruction, some instruments are taught in large group lessons, such as piano and acoustic guitar. Private lessons can also take place through live video chat using webcam and videotelephony online.
Music lessons are part of both amateur music instruction and professional training. In amateur and recreational music contexts, children and adults take music lessons to improve their singing or playing skills and learn basic techniques. In professional training contexts, such as music conservatories, university music performance programs (e.g., Bachelor of music, Master of music, DMA, etc.), students take a music lesson once a week for an hour or more with a music professor over a period of years to learn advanced playing or singing techniques. Many instrumental performers and singers, including a number of music celebrities, have learned " by ear", especially in folk music styles such as blues and popular styles such as rock music. Nevertheless, even in folk and popular styles, a number of performers have had some type of music lessons, such as meeting with a vocal coach or getting childhood instruction in an instrument such as piano.
Music lesson can refer to:
- Music lesson, a type of formal instruction in music
- The Music Lesson, a 17th-century painting by Johannes Vermeer
- The Music Lesson (Matisse), a 1917 painting by Henri Matisse
Usage examples of "music lesson".
He has remained with Mr Kelly since his first music lesson at the age of five.
But she did not do so well as usual in anything, for as soon as she had a moment to think, she began to plan how she might catch Robert being unkind to someone Belinda and Joan and Nora had a little talk together, whilst Elizabeth was having her music lesson that day.
One emerged from a private music lesson with him as from a bath or a massage.
There will be no music lesson, nor any lesson with the lady Renata, until you have taken out all those clumsy stitches and done them properly.
For hours the music lesson continues, covering a range of both notes and chords, until some of the serpents on each side lose their voices The exercise concludes with an attempted ensemble performance by the royal bluenecked serpents, but the result is a painful cacophony.
Inside the ship, every note, every movement, every response by the juvenile serpents to the music lesson is carefully monitored and recorded.
From the pediatrician to the dentist to the French lesson they drove, and as soon as her talent for music was discovered, to the music lesson, too.