This course is about how music works. It is about the relationship between the technical and aesthetic details of music. It is also about how developing a meaningful theoretical vocabulary can help you think and talk about musical style, and how learning that vocabulary can expand your appreciation for music.
Approaching Music Theory: Melodic Forms and Simple Harmony
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I recommended you have a basic knowledge of music notation prior to starting this course. Specific details are provided in the first week.
完成时间大约为22 小时
英语（English）
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Analyze the relationship between the technical details and aesthetics of music.
Explore how culture, psychology, physics, formal context, and a sense of play all shape musical language.
Discover ways in which music theory may be relevant to enjoying, communicating a love for, and performing music.
Demonstrate confidence in the kind of musical self-analysis that can help you develop your own musical ideas.
您将获得的技能
MusicClassical MusicJazzMusic compositionMusic theory
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I recommended you have a basic knowledge of music notation prior to starting this course. Specific details are provided in the first week.
完成时间大约为22 小时
英语（English）
字幕：法语（French）, 巴西葡萄牙语, 俄语（Russian）, 英语（English）, 西班牙语（Spanish）
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加州艺术学院
CalArts has earned an international reputation as the leading college of the visual and performing arts in the United States. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater—CalArts has championed creative excellence, critical reflection, and the development of new forms and expressions.
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完成时间为 14 分钟
Course Overview
This introductory module lets you know what is involved in the course. Come on in!
完成时间为 14 分钟
1 个视频 （总计 1 分钟）, 9 个阅读材料
1 个视频
9 个阅读材料
Is this course right for you?1分钟
How to Pass This Course2分钟
Accessing Music in the Course1分钟
Instructor Presence and Staff Support 1分钟
Forum Guidelines2分钟
Requesting Peer Reviews2分钟
Academic Integrity2分钟
About Performing1分钟
About CalArts and the School of Music1分钟
完成时间为 5 小时
Melodic Structures: Lines, Shapes, and Simple Modes
In this module, we will being to develop a vocabulary that is useful in describing the technicalities behind musical expression. To do this, we will start right away closely examining some actual, real music. First we will look at some Gregorian Chant (which, come on, can be stunningly beautiful). Second we will use some slow classic Jazz to thoughtfully build our vocabulary.
完成时间为 5 小时
16 个视频 （总计 93 分钟）, 11 个阅读材料, 7 个测验
16 个视频
The Richness of Simplicity, part 15分钟
The Richness of Simplicity, part 25分钟
Context and Discrete Function4分钟
Neighbor Notes and Passing Tones4分钟
Context Gives Notes Function1分钟
Cadences9分钟
How to Grade: Write a Gregorian Chant10分钟
An Utterly Different Aesthetic, part 13分钟
An Utterly Different Aesthetic, part 23分钟
Leaps vs. Steps4分钟
Chromaticism: Outside Notes3分钟
The Next Chromatic Note1分钟
Sequence4分钟
How to Grade: Write a Slow Jazz Song11分钟
How to Grade: Write a Folk Song13分钟
11 个阅读材料
Week 1 Glossary & Playlist1分钟
Optional Practice: Medieval Notation3分钟
Optional Practice: Modern Notation3分钟
Optional Practice: MIDI Notation3分钟
Some Lessons Learned2分钟
Optional Practice: Antiphon10分钟
Optional Practice: Improvise a Melody10分钟
Optional Practice: A Little Musical Idea5分钟
Some More Lessons Learned2分钟
Talking About Folk Music3分钟
Examples of Folk Music3分钟
4 个练习
Reinforce Your Knowledge: Remember New Terms5分钟
See it then Hear it: Over the Rainbow (Required)14分钟
Hear it then See it: White Christmas (Required)12分钟
See it then Hear it: The Riddle Song (Required - Honors)14分钟
完成时间为 7 小时
Melodic Structures: Simplicity, Repetition, and Change
In this module, still looking at single melodic lines, we will start to branch farther afield to describe some useful technical descriptions of the differences between different simple and complicated musical styles.
完成时间为 7 小时
17 个视频 （总计 140 分钟）, 8 个阅读材料, 9 个测验
17 个视频
Repetition8分钟
How to Grade: Write Like a Classical Composer15分钟
Less is More: Chopin9分钟
Less is More: Ives5分钟
Some Lessons Learned3分钟
Brahms Rhapsody12分钟
Schoenberg's Piano Concerto5分钟
Single Ladies / It's a Small World / Your own personal nightmare earworm2分钟
Three Expansive Tunes3分钟
How to Grade: Write Like a Romantic Composer16分钟
How to Grade: Write like an Early 20th Century Composer13分钟
How to Grade: Write an Earworm7分钟
Boulez, Selon Pli7分钟
John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis4分钟
How to Grade: Write Like a Mid- to Late 20th Century Composer17分钟
How to Grade: Write Like a Wombat2分钟
8 个阅读材料
Week 2 Glossary & Playlist1分钟
Some Lessons Learned2分钟
Listen First: Chopin, Withers, Ives6分钟
Less is More: Withers10分钟
Optional Practice: I Want You10分钟
Optional Practice: One Note Samba5分钟
Optional Practice: Musica Ricerata10分钟
Listen First: Brahms & Schoenberg12分钟
3 个练习
See it then Hear it: Diaphonic Suite #1 (Required)30分钟
Hear it then See it: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Required)14分钟
See it then Hear it: 1- (Required - Honors)12分钟
完成时间为 5 小时
Combining Pitches: Consonance and Dissonance
Now we will start to describe different ways to think about playing pitches simultaneously. Carefully considering our terms, we will listen to a wide spectrum of styles before settling in to focus on the basics of common practice rules.
完成时间为 5 小时
17 个视频 （总计 136 分钟）, 4 个阅读材料, 6 个测验
17 个视频
The Physics Of It All6分钟
The Culture & Context You Swim In10分钟
The Functional Relationship10分钟
A Three-Minute History of Medieval Music12分钟
A bit more about medieval music—and meter2分钟
Introduction to 'The Rules'8分钟
A Simple Explanation of Counterpoint, part 18分钟
A Simple Explanation of Counterpoint, part 26分钟
Adding Dissonance18分钟
How to Grade: Counterpoint, Part One: A&B7分钟
How to Grade: Counterpoint, Part Two: C&D7分钟
Josquin in two voices, part 15分钟
Josquin in two voices, part 28分钟
Creatively Breaking Rules7分钟
Breaking the Rules In Order To Make New Rules in Order to Figure Out What Rules Are6分钟
How to Grade: Counterpoint, Part Three: E&F4分钟
4 个阅读材料
Week 3 Glossary & Playlist2分钟
Optional Practice: Meter5分钟
Optional Practice: An informal analysis of Josquin10分钟
Optional Practice: Two Beautiful Pieces15分钟
3 个练习
Physical Consonance (Required)5分钟
See it then Hear it: Broken Rules (Required)12分钟
Hear it then See it: Broken Rules (Required)10分钟
完成时间为 5 小时
Cadences and Basic Harmonic Function
Beginning with a fuller examination of cadences, we will come up with ways to describe chords and harmonic function that help us talk and think about different styles of music. Finally, we will consider how our newly constructed vocabulary can help us describe the function and aesthetics of more and more complete pieces of music.
完成时间为 5 小时
18 个视频 （总计 108 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 4 个测验
18 个视频
Demonstration: 3-part voice leading11分钟
Cadences, part 18分钟
Cadences, part 23分钟
Melodic Aspect to Cadences5分钟
Tonal Function6分钟
More about the Leading Tone: A diversion into Rock and Country3分钟
Rock/Pop vs. Country3分钟
Getting back to Tonal Function: Subdominant5分钟
Some simple examples10分钟
Subdominant Feelz6分钟
Recap of Harmonic Function5分钟
All Triads in a Key4分钟
Mozart Piano Concerto, Part 18分钟
Mozart Piano Concerto, Part 27分钟
Mozart Piano Concerto, Part 36分钟
How to Grade: Complete the Cadences (Final Assignment)3分钟
Conclusion1分钟
3 个阅读材料
Week 4 Glossary & Playlist2分钟
Listen to Haydn and Pärt15分钟
Listen First: Stairway to Heaven & Coal Miner's Daughter10分钟
2 个练习
See it Then Hear it: Piano Sonata #1 (Required)18分钟
Hear it and See it: Dove Sono (Required)15分钟
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来自APPROACHING MUSIC THEORY: MELODIC FORMS AND SIMPLE HARMONY的热门评论
由 AW 提供Jul 4, 2020
Great survey of Western music. I found it more of an appreciation of listening to music rather than a formal music theory course. There's lots of opportunity to learn different styles of composition.
由 HS 提供May 5, 2020
It's not simply a course but it's a journey through decades of music. What a fun way to learn! Especially with such an interactive and amazing instructor.
由 PR 提供Mar 28, 2020
A very useful and interesting overview to melody and harmony. I loved Marc's sense of humour. It has motivated me to study the subject in more depth.
由 JD 提供Jun 18, 2020
I can't overemphasize how good this course is. It's extremely well thought out. Thank you so much for making this available to a broader public!
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