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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.

This online course explores the relationship between the technical and aesthetic details of music. It aims to build a deeper understanding of music theory for composing,...

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

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 online course (MOOC) gives a brief introduction to the elements of music theory, such as pitch, rhythm, meter, notation, scales, keys, key signatures, meter signatures,...

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

This course teaches the fundamental principles and early stages of teaching violin and viola through a series of engaging video lectures and lesson demonstrations

This course introduces students to strategies for style writing of common practice European art music. The issues of harmonic progression, voice leading, and texture are...

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,...

This online course (part 2) explores 4 more Beethoven sonatas.

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

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 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...

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

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

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 examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the days before rock (pre-1955) to the end of the 1960s. It covers artists such as...

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.

This online course (MOOC) gives an introduction to the theory of music. Participants learn the skills needed to read and write Western music notation, as well as to understand,...