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At a time of crisis for the classical music profession, with a changing commercial landscape, a shrinking audience base, and a contraction in the number of professional...

This online course teaches key concepts and approaches needed to understand, create, and perform contemporary music.

This series of MOOCs explores the fundamentals of music theory, including major and minor tonalities, chord scales, song forms, and chord qualities.

The focus of this course will be on the music, but recording techniques, the music business, the music of other artists, and how the culture of the 1960s affected John, Paul,...

This course takes an inside-out look at Beethoven`s 32 piano sonatas from the point of view of a performer. Each lecture will focus on one sonata and an aspect of Beethoven’s...

In this course students learn the basic concepts of acoustics and electronics and how they can applied to understand musical sound and make music with electronic instruments.

This online course explores important aspects of the blues, blues improvisation, basic keyboard textures, jazz harmonic and melodic syntax.

This course, part 2 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s.

This online course teaches music history, including a music theory introduction for better understanding and enjoying classical music.

This course explores the factors — musical and cultural — that led to the birth of American rock 'n' roll music in the early 1950s.

This online course (part 3) explores 4 more Beethoven sonatas.

This series of online courses gives an introduction to music technology. The courses include digital audio, mixing and producing music using Ableton Live; sound synthesis theory...

This online course will introduce participants to new key signatures, including minor tonalities, and how they are constructed. Learners will train their ear to hear minor...

This online course teaches how electronic musicians can build chords and melodies.

From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, this course discovers the stories, music, and art of the...

This course will survey the music of the Rolling Stones, beginning with the roots and first formation of the band in the early 1960s, and following the group through the release...

Using a simple and enjoyable teaching style, this course introduces the novice listener to the wonders of classical music, from Bach fugues to Mozart symphonies to Puccini operas.

In this course students will learn about audio signal processing methodologies that are specific for music and of use in real applications. They will learn to analyse,...

In this MOOC, participants will continue to train their ear, learning to differentiate between the various intervals and chords.

This online course provides a general introduction to how to understand a musical score, and insights into what professional musicians do with the notation that these contain.