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...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 courses on this form of harmonic analysis,...

...Open University course A111 Discovering the arts and humanities...Discovering music: the blues: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the historical context of the blues explain the nature of typical blues lyrics recognise a blues scale understand the concept of primary chords understand the 12-bar blues structure...Discovering...

...course, Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective, we will explore the relationship between the two using examples of Asian music to help us clarify the concepts...Improvisation 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...

...Open University) who supported the development of this OpenLearn course, and to Lucy Hollingworth (The Open University) and Kenneth Baird (European Opera Centre), who also provided extremely helpful feedback. Many thanks to all of the interviewees for their valuable contributions: Gabriella Di Laccio (Donne Women in Music), Róisín Maher (Finding A Voice), Tim...

...opened this course (Example 4). As a background feature, it is frequently used on this very large scale as part of the patterning of an entire sonata-form movement. Here is another possible way in which voice leading and formal sections may coincide. Let's imagine a descent from to this time. [Figure 5] Figure 5 An alternative major-key voice-leading background Activity...