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

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...

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.

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 includes a college-level music theory curriculum.

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

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...

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,...

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...