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Art and the Mexican Revolution
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Art and the Mexican RevolutionIn this free course, Art and the Mexican Revolution, you will explore one of Diego Rivera’s key murals which was commissioned by the Mexican government in the period after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. These monumental public artworks, designed to win over the Mexican peasantry and working-class to the new post-revolutionary state, ...
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Listening for form in popular music
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Listening for form in popular musicThis free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and ‘bridge’), alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the form of a song works with ...
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Art in Renaissance Venice
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Art in Renaissance VeniceThis free course, Art in Renaissance Venice, considers the art of Renaissance Venice and how such art was determined in many ways by the city's geographical location and ethnically diverse population. Studying Venice and its art offers a challenge to the conventional notion of Renaissance art as an entirely Italian phenomenon.
Lefel: 3 Uwch
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Napoleonic paintings
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Napoleonic paintingsIn this free course, Napoleonic paintings, we will examine a range of Napoleonic imagery by David, Gros and a number of other artists, beginning with comparatively simple single-figure portraits and moving on to elaborate narrative compositions, such as Jaffa and Eylau. In so doing, we will have three main aims: to develop your skills of visual ...
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Brighton Pavilion
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Brighton PavilionIn this free course, Brighton Pavilion, you will examine the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, and its relationship to nineteenth-century Romanticism and exoticism. You'll begin with a biographical discussion of the Prince of Wales, afterwards Prince Regent and eventually King George IV, to whose specifications the Pavilion was built. With the help of...
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Recording music and sound
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Recording music and soundThis free course, Recording music and sound, provides an historical introduction to music and sound recording in the creative industries and offers some guidance about making your own recordings. Many of the processes that have been developed and the issues that have been raised in the first 150 years of recording are still relevant today, and a...
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Artists and authorship: the case of RaphaelIndividual artists have been the traditional focus of art history, but how do we evaluate the figure of the artist? This free course, Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, takes the life of Raphael as a case study. You will examine sixteenth-century sources to explore the creation of artistic authorship in the early modern era. The ...
Lefel: 3 Uwch
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Goya
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of GoyaWhat influenced Goya? Did Napoleon's invasion of Spain alter the course of Goya's career? This free course will guide you through the works of Goya and the influences of the times in which he lived. Anyone with a desire to look for the influences behind a work of art will benefit from studying this course.
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Dutch painting of the Golden Age
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Dutch painting of the Golden AgeSeventeenth-century Dutch painting stands out from other art of the same period and even more so from that of previous centuries on account of its apparently ‘everyday’ character. Works by artists such as Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch and Jacob van Ruisdael seem to offer a faithful picture of life in the Netherlands at the time. In studying ...
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Music and its media
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Music and its mediaThis free course, Music and its media, examines some of the main ways in which music is transmitted. It considers how the means of communicating a particular piece can change over time; and how the appearance and contents of a source can reflect the circumstances in which it is produced. The course focuses on three examples of musical media that...
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foregroundThis free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground, introduces 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained through the analysis of piano sonatas by Mozart. The course is the first in the AA314 series of three ...
Lefel: 3 Uwch
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Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspectiveImprovisation and composition are words frequently used in the western world to describe the creation of music. But are they really two distinct processes, or are they aspects of the same phenomenon? In this free course, Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective, we will explore the relationship between the two using examples ...
Lefel: 3 Uwch
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Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Reception of music in cross-cultural perspectiveMusic is created to be performed, in most cases for an audience, whether in a concert hall, at a street fair or through a radio. But how those listeners receive a piece or style of music influences future music production. This free course, Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective, explores how audience reception, changing social ...
Lefel: 3 Uwch
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Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poemsThis free course, Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems, looks at the short poems in German that were set to music by Franz Schubert (17971828) for a single voice with piano, a genre known as 'Lieder' (the German for 'songs'). Once they became widely known, Schubert's Lieder influenced generations of songwriters up to the present day. ...
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Icarus: entering the world of myth
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Icarus: entering the world of mythThis free course, Icarus: entering the world of myth, will introduce you to one of the best-known myths from classical antiquity and its various re-tellings in later periods. You will begin by examining how the Icarus story connects with a number of other ancient myths, such as that of Theseus and the Minotaur. You will then be guided through an...
Lefel: 2 Canolradd
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Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
Dysgwch fwy to access more details of Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’Accounts of Caravaggio's life are filled with suggestions of murder and intrigue. But does knowing more about this dark artist's experiences help us to interpret his art? Or does understanding his motivations cloud their true meaning? This free course, Helen Langdon's 'Caravaggio', explores the biographical monograph, one of the most common ...
Lefel: 3 Uwch
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Hwb Barod ar gyfer Prifysgol
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