Discovering music: the blues
This free course, Discovering music: the blues, will introduce you to a musical tradition with roots in the nineteenth century but which...
Level: 1 Introductory
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20 May 2019
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Recording music and sound
This free course, Recording music and sound, provides an historical introduction to music and sound recording in the creative industries and offers...
Level: 2 Intermediate
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06 Sep 2018
An introduction to music research
In this free course, An introduction to music research, we have gathered together materials to allow you to explore the ways in which music may be...
Level: 3 Advanced
Updated on:
07 Jul 2016
Music and its media
This 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...
Level: 2 Intermediate
Updated on:
08 Mar 2016
An introduction to music theory
Gain an understanding of the basic building blocks of musical theory and notation. This free course, An introduction to music theory, will...
Level: 1 Introductory
Updated on:
26 Feb 2016
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
The music of Mozart has been used to examine the foreground and middleground of harmony in free courses AA314_1 and AA314_2. In this free course,...
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Level: 3 Advanced
Updated on:
08 Feb 2016
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground, continues our examination of 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis,...
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Level: 3 Advanced
Updated on:
05 Feb 2016
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground, introduces 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely...
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Level: 3 Advanced
Updated on:
05 Feb 2016
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
Music 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...
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Level: 3 Advanced
Updated on:
27 Jan 2016
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
Improvisation and composition are words frequently used in the western world to describe the creation of music. But are they really two distinct...
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Level: 3 Advanced
Updated on:
15 Jan 2016
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