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This course is a brief introduction to the elements of music theory for those with little or no music theory experience. We will explore pitch, rhythm, meter, notation, scales, keys, key signatures, meter signatures, triads, seventh chords, and basic harmony. If you listen to music or play music by ear, and you want to know more about how music is organized and notated, this course is for you.
By the end of the course, you should know all major and minor keys, how to read and write in treble and bass clef using standard meters and rhythmic values, and how to notate and harmonize a simple melody. This course can serve as a stand-alone basic music theory course, or it can be a springboard to more advanced theory and composition courses.

Your instructor is Bruce Taggart, Associate Professor of Music Theory at Michigan State University, in the College of Music, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate music theory since 1996.

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Прибл. 12 часов на выполнение

Английский

Субтитры: Английский

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Прибл. 12 часов на выполнение

Английский

Субтитры: Английский

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Неделя

1

Неделя 1

3 ч. на завершение

Basic Materials: Overview, Tonality, Notation

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module, you should be able to: (1) discuss the elements of music, (2) explain the difference between tonal and atonal music, (3) sing the tonic in tonal music, (4) identify the fundamental and partials of a note, (5) explain the difference between chord and harmony, (6) explain the five-line staff, (7) read and write notes using treble and bass clefs, and (8) identify rhythmic values in notation. You should be able to (9) distinguish between pitch and pitch class, (10) describe octaves and how to label pitches based on octave placement, (11) identify and write accidentals and find them on the piano keyboard, (12) and define equal temperament (the artificial scale used on the modern piano) and tell how it differs from other tuning systems.

3 ч. на завершение

9 видео ((всего 58 мин.)), 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения, 4 тестов

9 видео

Course Overview2мин

Tonality and Atonality6мин

Harmonic Function9мин

Harmonic Hierarchy4мин

Acoustics8мин

Notation I: Pitch8мин

Notation II: Rhythmic Notation6мин

Notation III: Measures and Measure Numbers3мин

Notation IV: Notation In Action7мин

1 материал для самостоятельного изучения

Notation Reading10мин

4 практических упражнения

Tonality and Acoustics Practice Quiz6мин

Tonality, Harmony, Acoustics30мин

Notation Practice Quiz8мин

Pitch and Rhythm Notation32мин

Неделя

2

Неделя 2

4 ч. на завершение

Scales, Keys, and Intervals

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module, you should be able to (1) describe the diatonic set and understand how it is used to create major and minor scales, (2) sing major and minor using solfeggio (solfege) syllables, (3) explain the difference between natural, harmonic, and melodic minor, (4) spell major and minor scales starting on any note using accidentals in treble and bass clef, and (5) spell parallel and relative major and minor scales. You should also be able to (6) identify and spell by size and quality diatonic intervals (within a key) and chromatic intervals (outside a key).

4 ч. на завершение

12 видео ((всего 81 мин.)), 3 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 4 тестов

12 видео

Half Steps, Whole Steps, and the Diatonic Set7мин

Major Scales7мин

Key Signatures6мин

Sharp Key Signatures4мин

Flat Key Signatures And The Circle of Fifths4мин

Minor Scales7мин

Relative Minor6мин

Forms Of Minor Scales9мин

Generic Intervals6мин

Interval Quality and Diatonic Intervals6мин

More Diatonic Intervals7мин

Chromatic Intervals and Inversion5мин

3 материала для самостоятельного изучения

Неделя 3

2 ч. на завершение

Rhythm and Meter

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module, you should be able to (1) read and write all possible rhythmic values, including dotted notes and ties, (2) understand how many notes fit within a measure in various meters, (3) determine meter signatures based on note grouping, and note grouping based on meter signatures, (4) define the types of musical accent and how they create a sense of meter, (5) distinguish between duple and triple meters in notation and by sound, and (6) describe and identify metrical syncopation. You should be able to (7) write melodies on the treble, bass, and grand staves using correct meter signatures, note values, rhythmic grouping, stem direction and beaming, and key signatures and accidentals,

2 ч. на завершение

6 видео ((всего 50 мин.)), 2 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 2 тестов

6 видео

Accents and Meter Beats8мин

Rhythm and Meter II: Subdivisions of the Beat7мин

Meter III: Simple and Compound Meters9мин

Metric Notation In Practice9мин

Metric Notation: Tuplets6мин

Syncopation9мин

2 материала для самостоятельного изучения

More About Meter and Meter Signatures10мин

Неделя 4

3 ч. на завершение

Chords, Triads, and Harmony

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module, you should be able to (1) identify and spell major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads in root position and inversions, and (2) identify and spell major, minor, dominant, half-diminished, and fully diminished seventh chords in root position and inversions. You should also be able to (3) use Roman numeral labels to identify diatonic triads within a key, (4) write triads within a key when given Roman numerals, and (5) spell chords when given pop/jazz chord symbols.

3 ч. на завершение

8 видео ((всего 56 мин.)), 3 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 3 тестов

8 видео

Triads3мин

Triads II: Inversions6мин

Triads III: Quality8мин

Seventh Chords7мин

Qualities of Seventh Chords4мин

Fully Diminished Seventh Chords9мин

Chord Symbols7мин

Roman Numeral Notation8мин

3 материала для самостоятельного изучения

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