Approaching Music Theory: Melodic Forms and Simple Harmony
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Approaching Music Theory: Melodic Forms and Simple Harmony at Coursera Overview
Duration | 22 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Approaching Music Theory: Melodic Forms and Simple Harmony at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
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- Intermediate Level I recommended you have a basic knowledge of music notation prior to starting this course. Specific details are provided in the first week.
- Approx. 22 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Approaching Music Theory: Melodic Forms and Simple Harmony at Coursera Course details
- This course is about how music works. It is about the relationship between the technical and aesthetic details of music. It is also about how developing a meaningful theoretical vocabulary can help you think and talk about musical style, and how learning that vocabulary can expand your appreciation for music.
- In this course you will learn music theory not by looking at theory itself, but by listening to, looking at, and?yes!?writing your own musical examples. By hearing, seeing, and writing yourself, you will learn about classical, modern, ancient, pop, jazz, and folk styles.
- Through lectures, relevant examples, and numerous practice assignments, we will examine fundamental aspects of melody. We will move into working with two voices and counterpoint, and finally to three voices and the beginnings of harmonic function.
- This is an intermediate-level course for musicians and composers who already have some understanding of music theory through previous study. If you are a musician or composer looking to build a deeper understanding of music theory for composing, performing, or improvisation, you have come to the right place. If you are an amateur lover of music or, perhaps, play a musical instrument and want to develop a deeper sense of appreciation for music theory, aesthetics, and history, you are also in the right place!
Approaching Music Theory: Melodic Forms and Simple Harmony at Coursera Curriculum
Course Overview
Welcome to the Course
Is this course right for you?
How to Pass This Course
Accessing Music in the Course
Instructor Presence and Staff Support
Forum Guidelines
Requesting Peer Reviews
Academic Integrity
About Performing
About CalArts and the School of Music
Let's Talk About Music
The Richness of Simplicity, part 1
The Richness of Simplicity, part 2
Context and Discrete Function
Neighbor Notes and Passing Tones
Context Gives Notes Function
Cadences
How to Grade: Write a Gregorian Chant
An Utterly Different Aesthetic, part 1
An Utterly Different Aesthetic, part 2
Leaps vs. Steps
Chromaticism: Outside Notes
The Next Chromatic Note
Sequence
How to Grade: Write a Slow Jazz Song
How to Grade: Write a Folk Song
Week 1 Glossary & Playlist
Optional Practice: Medieval Notation
Optional Practice: Modern Notation
Optional Practice: MIDI Notation
Some Lessons Learned
Optional Practice: Antiphon
Optional Practice: Improvise a Melody
Optional Practice: A Little Musical Idea
Some More Lessons Learned
Talking About Folk Music
Examples of Folk Music
Reinforce Your Knowledge: Remember New Terms
See it then Hear it: Over the Rainbow (Required)
Hear it then See it: White Christmas (Required)
See it then Hear it: The Riddle Song (Required - Honors)
Melodic Structures: Simplicity, Repetition, and Change
Complex Simplicity: Repetition and Expectation
Repetition
How to Grade: Write Like a Classical Composer
Less is More: Chopin
Less is More: Ives
Some Lessons Learned
Brahms Rhapsody
Schoenberg's Piano Concerto
Single Ladies / It's a Small World / Your own personal nightmare earworm
Three Expansive Tunes
How to Grade: Write Like a Romantic Composer
How to Grade: Write like an Early 20th Century Composer
How to Grade: Write an Earworm
Boulez, Selon Pli
John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis
How to Grade: Write Like a Mid- to Late 20th Century Composer
How to Grade: Write Like a Wombat
Week 2 Glossary & Playlist
Some Lessons Learned
Listen First: Chopin, Withers, Ives
Less is More: Withers
Optional Practice: I Want You
Optional Practice: One Note Samba
Optional Practice: Musica Ricerata
Listen First: Brahms & Schoenberg
See it then Hear it: Diaphonic Suite #1 (Required)
Hear it then See it: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Required)
See it then Hear it: 1- (Required - Honors)
Combining Pitches: Consonance and Dissonance
Introduction to Consonance and Dissonance
The Physics Of It All
The Culture & Context You Swim In
The Functional Relationship
A Three-Minute History of Medieval Music
A bit more about medieval music?and meter
Introduction to 'The Rules'
A Simple Explanation of Counterpoint, part 1
A Simple Explanation of Counterpoint, part 2
Adding Dissonance
How to Grade: Counterpoint, Part One: A&B
How to Grade: Counterpoint, Part Two: C&D
Josquin in two voices, part 1
Josquin in two voices, part 2
Creatively Breaking Rules
Breaking the Rules In Order To Make New Rules in Order to Figure Out What Rules Are
How to Grade: Counterpoint, Part Three: E&F
Week 3 Glossary & Playlist
Optional Practice: Meter
Optional Practice: An informal analysis of Josquin
Optional Practice: Two Beautiful Pieces
Physical Consonance (Required)
See it then Hear it: Broken Rules (Required)
Hear it then See it: Broken Rules (Required)
Cadences and Basic Harmonic Function
More Than Two Voices at a Time: The Beginnings of Harmony
Demonstration: 3-part voice leading
Cadences, part 1
Cadences, part 2
Melodic Aspect to Cadences
Tonal Function
More about the Leading Tone: A diversion into Rock and Country
Rock/Pop vs. Country
Getting back to Tonal Function: Subdominant
Some simple examples
Subdominant Feelz
Recap of Harmonic Function
All Triads in a Key
Mozart Piano Concerto, Part 1
Mozart Piano Concerto, Part 2
Mozart Piano Concerto, Part 3
How to Grade: Complete the Cadences (Final Assignment)
Conclusion
Week 4 Glossary & Playlist
Listen to Haydn and Pärt
Listen First: Stairway to Heaven & Coal Miner's Daughter
See it Then Hear it: Piano Sonata #1 (Required)
Hear it and See it: Dove Sono (Required)
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