Michigan State University - Getting Started With Music Theory
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Getting Started With Music Theory at Coursera Overview
Duration | 13 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Getting Started With Music Theory at Coursera Highlights
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- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Getting Started With Music Theory at Coursera Course details
- 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.
Getting Started With Music Theory at Coursera Curriculum
Basic Materials: Overview, Tonality, Notation
Course Overview
Tonality and Atonality
Harmonic Function
Harmonic Hierarchy
Acoustics
Notation I: Pitch
Notation II: Rhythmic Notation
Notation III: Measures and Measure Numbers
Notation IV: Notation In Action
Notation Reading
Tonality and Acoustics Practice Quiz
Tonality, Harmony, Acoustics
Notation Practice Quiz
Pitch and Rhythm Notation
Scales, Keys, and Intervals
Half Steps, Whole Steps, and the Diatonic Set
Major Scales
Key Signatures
Sharp Key Signatures
Flat Key Signatures And The Circle of Fifths
Minor Scales
Relative Minor
Forms Of Minor Scales
Generic Intervals
Interval Quality and Diatonic Intervals
More Diatonic Intervals
Chromatic Intervals and Inversion
More On Minor
Key Signature Practice
More On Intervals
Diatonic Set, Major, Minor: Practice Quiz
Diatonic Set, Major, Minor
Intervals Practice Quiz
Intervals Quiz
Rhythm and Meter
Accents and Meter Beats
Rhythm and Meter II: Subdivisions of the Beat
Meter III: Simple and Compound Meters
Metric Notation In Practice
Metric Notation: Tuplets
Syncopation
More About Meter and Meter Signatures
More On Tuplets
Rhythm and Meter
Meter, Tuplets, Syncopation
Chords, Triads, and Harmony
Triads
Triads II: Inversions
Triads III: Quality
Seventh Chords
Qualities of Seventh Chords
Fully Diminished Seventh Chords
Chord Symbols
Roman Numeral Notation
More on Triads
More On Seventh Chords
7th Chords In Jazz
Triads
Seventh Chords
Labeling Chords
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