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The Rest Is Noise: America

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Introductory Level 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.

OU on the BBC: The Sound And The Fury

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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.

20th century composers: making the connections

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins 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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Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

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Advanced Level Duration 20 hours 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...

Cultures

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Intermediate Level Duration 5 hours 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...

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

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Advanced Level 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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Inside music

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Inside music Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Intermediate Level Duration 600 hours Updated 05 May 2013 Register by 05 Sep 2013
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...

MA in Music

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MA in Music Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Duration 1800 hours Updated 21 Apr 2013
The MA develops your research and analytical skills while exploring the latest contemporary thinking and debates about the digital humanities and music ...

Start listening to music

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Introductory Level Duration 100 hours Updated 04 Jan 2013 Register by 03 Oct 2013
A short online course about perceptive listening – exploring form, instrumentation and context through a wide range of music, including classical, jazz, popular and world...