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Fundamentals of Music Theory - Free online couse - starts July 2014

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another Coursera video course

https://www.coursera.org/course/musictheory

 

This course is suitable for those who have never studied music academically. It will introduce you to the theory of Western music, providing you with the skills needed to read and write Western music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, and listen informedly.  

It will provide the basis for the further study of music both from a theoretical and practical point of view: musicology, pastiche and free composition, analysis, performance, and aural skills. 

It will also be useful to experienced musicians without music notation skills who wish to extend their practice through a grounding in the tools of Western music theory and notation.

Course Syllabus

Week-by-Week breakdown

  1. Pitches, scales, modes, and chords
  2. Keys and intervals
  3. Rhythm and form
  4. Harmony 1: functional harmony
  5. Harmony 2: inversions, cadences, and sequences

Recommended Background

No background required.

In-course Textbooks

As a student enrolled in this course, you will have free access to selected chapters and content for the duration of the course. All chapters were selected by the instructor specifically for this course. You will be able to access the Coursera edition of the e-textbook via an e-reader in the class site hosted by Chegg. If you click on “Buy this book”, you will be able to purchase the full version of the textbook, rather than the limited chapter selection in the Coursera edition. This initiative is made possible by Coursera’s collaboration with textbook publishers and Chegg.

Suggested Readings

Although not required to participate in the course, an excellent text/reference book for the course would be:

S. M. Kostka, D. Payne. Tonal Harmony. McGraw-Hill Education, 2008. 

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