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Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Delve into the inner workings of Western tonal music through eighteen enjoyable and revealing lessons taught by Professor Sean Atkinson of Texas Christian University. Professor Atkinson, an eminent music theorist and teacher, makes music theory refreshingly clear and accessible, demystifying the skill of reading music as well as the principles of musical analysis. Using a highly interactive approach, he orients the lessons to an understanding of how...
Author
Publisher
Kaplan, Inc., d/b/a Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In-depth review chapters covering music fundamentals, harmonic organization, harmonic progression, melodic composition and dictation, harmonic dictation, visual score analysis and much more. Downloadable Audio Files included.
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn music theory through the lens of songwriting. These tutorials cover the basics of harmony: minor scales, modes, 7th chords, modulations, and more.
Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music—but it can be kind of dry. Music Theory for Songwriters is taught in a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way, demonstrating techniques on both keyboard and guitar, allowing songwriters to learn music theory while they learn song craft....
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Improve your songwriting process by factoring for rhythm and building rhythm. Explore note values, time signatures, feel, timing, dynamics, syncopation, and more.
Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of rhythm in both a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way, demonstrating rhythm on drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals, allowing songwriters to learn music theory while...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Professional musician Julian Velard covers the basics of music theory through the lens of songwriting. Explore intervals, chord progressions, voice leading, song forms, and more.
Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. However, no one has taught it in such a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way as we do here, using both keyboard and guitar to demonstrate the techniques. Professional musician Julian Velard starts the course with...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Conclude the series as it began, with an encounter with a great piece of music. Hear Clara Schumann's "Three Romances for Violin and Piano" and test yourself on some of the concepts you've studied in the series. Revisit the elements of meter, rhythm, harmonic motion, cadences, key changes, and musical phrases that form the inner structure of great music.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Delve into the inner workings of Western tonal music through 18 lessons that make music theory refreshingly clear and accessible, demystifying the skill of reading music as well as the principles of musical analysis. Learn how music creates its remarkable effects, both formally and expressively, and how this understanding benefits us as listeners and instrumentalists.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Take account of what distinguishes a minor key from a major key, and the associations of minor keys with tragedy and sad emotions. Learn to transform a major scale into a minor one by altering three notes in the scale. See how major and minor scales are related, using the circle of fifths from Lesson 5, and study commonly used variants of the minor scale, called harmonic and melodic minor.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Harmony, where two or more notes sound together, lies at the heart of tonal music. In this lesson, study the structure of chords, combinations of three or more notes heard at the same time, focusing on triads, a group of fundamental three-note chords. Learn about major and minor triads, and the lesser-used diminished and augmented triads, and observe harmony in action in a Bach chorale.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This episode discusses the phrase structure of tonal music. Discover how music unfolds in phrases, segments of musical material that end with a sense of rest or pause, often using a harmonic event called a cadence, which concludes the phrase. Hear how musical phrases operate, and how they are organized into larger units called periods and sentences, which create a musical narrative.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seventh chords are another essential component of Western tonal music. Observe how seventh chords (four-note chords) are built on triads (three-note chords), by adding another interval of a third. Learn how seventh chords "resolve" or propel the music forward. Study the five types of seventh chords, how they are used in different musical genres, and hear seventh chords in context.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how the pulse or beat of a piece of music is organized in the written score, within small segments called measures, with the meter signature indicating how the beats are grouped within the measure. Observe how written musical notes have a rhythmic value, indicating how long each note lasts in time. Practice clapping musical rhythms, to understand how a piece of music moves through time.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Here, delve into three important elements of musical expression. Take a deeper look at dynamics (volume) in music-making and see how dynamics are indicated in the score. Then study articulation, variations in how individual notes are performed, and finally tempo, the speed at which music is played, noting how musical notation indicates both the tempo and occasional departures from the tempo.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In jazz and popular music, a lead sheet uses only a melodic line and chord symbols to indicate how to play the song. Listen to a jazz pianist improvise from lead sheets in three popular songs and investigate how chords are written on lead sheets as opposed to classical music scores. Hear the performer talk about the process of playing from lead sheets in spontaneous improvisation.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Begin by defining the key of a piece of music, which is simply the musical scale that is used the most in the piece. Also discover key signatures in written music, symbols at the beginning of the musical score that indicate the key of the piece. Then grasp how the major keys all relate to each other in an orderly way, when arranged schematically according to the interval of a fifth.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Look closely at intervals in music, the distances between pitches (notes). Practice listening to intervals, such as the third (a distance of three) and the fifth (five) and see how they appear on the written staff. Then look at the "quality" of intervals, such as major or minor, and how these qualities create expressive effects. Hear how intervals are used within familiar pieces of music.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The way musical beats (pulses) are subdivided fundamentally affects the character of the music. Discover simple meter, where the beat is subdivided into two equal parts, and compound meter, where it's subdivided into three. Listen to music by Schumann, Haydn, and Bach to hear the difference, see how these rhythms are written, and do clapping exercises to get a feel for compound meter.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn to identify the pitch (frequency) of a musical note, expressed by the letters A through G. See the pitches on the piano keyboard and observe how they're written on the five-line "staff" of musical notation. Note how the symbols called clefs are used on the staff to indicate whether the pitches are in the upper or lower register, and practice reading notes on the treble and bass clefs.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As an introduction to the language of music, delve into the Russian Easter Overture (1888) by composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Explore how Rimsky-Korsakov achieves the work's expressive effects, through the textures of different instruments and variations in volume (dynamics), speed (tempo), rhythm, and harmony, to capture the emotions of Easter in the Russian orthodox church.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Musical scales—ordered patterns of the notes A through G—are one of the basic structures of music. See how scales are built using half steps and whole steps, terms which describe the sequence of notes within the scale. Focus on the major scale, grasping how this familiar pattern of notes is created, and learn the function of each note within the scale. Listen to music using the major scale.
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