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From Notation to Performance: Understanding Musical Scores
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Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

2,763

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

From Notation to Performance: Understanding Musical Scores
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Highlights

  • Duration 4 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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From Notation to Performance: Understanding Musical Scores
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Course details

More about this course
  • Would you like to know more about what musicians do in rehearsal and performance? Are you keen to learn different techniques for listening to and understanding music?
  • This online course will help you understand a musical score, what musicians do with the notation they contain, and how the notation you see is connected with the music you hear, from a short melody to a full orchestral score.
  • Focusing on Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Mahler, we'll introduce you to a pianist, small chamber group and conductor who will explain how they create memorable performances from the notes on the page.

From Notation to Performance: Understanding Musical Scores
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Understanding the principles of musical scores

The principles of musical scores

Introducing pitch

Introducing rhythm

Pianists and piano scores

Introducing the piano score

What is texture?

Dynamics and silence

Musical collaboration and the role of the score

Introducing new genres and instruments

Timbre and texture

Instruments, timbres and textures of big band jazz

Understanding orchestral scores

The conductor and the score

Understanding a large orchestral score (1) ? Mahler

Understanding a large orchestral score (2) ? Beethoven

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