The Rest Is Noise: America
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Duration 5 mins
Updated 14 Mar 2013
23/24 Mar: A new world discovers its voice. The Rest Is Noise looks at the emergence of America.
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OU on the BBC: The Sound And The Fury
Introductory Level
Duration 5 mins
Updated 29 Jan 2013
In this 3-part documentary series, BBC Four explores a century of modern music, examining composers and their works in a broader cultural context.
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Updated 28 Jan 2013
Explore the world of 20th century classical and avant-garde music through the composers and the fascinating connections that exist between them.
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Updated 22 May 2013
The music of Mozart has been used to examine the foreground and middleground of harmony in units AA314_1 and AA314_2. Now you will use Beethoven's...
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Updated 22 May 2013
In this unit you will address the question of traditional music and music from the francophone world and you will examine the place they occupy...
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Duration 20 hours
Updated 22 May 2013
This unit introduces ‘voice-leading’ or ‘Schenkerian’ analysis, perhaps the most widely-used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this unit, this method is explained...
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Updated 05 May 2013
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This course is an introduction to the principles of music where you'll examine the fundamentals of Western music and develop a more detailed understanding of...
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The MA develops your research and analytical skills while exploring the latest contemporary thinking and debates about the digital humanities and music
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Updated 04 Jan 2013
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A short online course about perceptive listening – exploring form, instrumentation and context through a wide range of music, including classical, jazz, popular and world...
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