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- Level Foundation
- Duration 13 hours
- Course by Michigan State University
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About
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.
Modules
Welcome and Overview of Music and Music Theory
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5
Videos
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Tonality and Acoustics Practice Quiz
- Tonality, Harmony, Acoustics
1
Discussions
- Why Music? What Music? My Music.
5
Videos
- Course Overview
- Tonality and Atonality
- Harmonic Function
- Harmonic Hierarchy
- Acoustics
Basics of Notation
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4
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Notation Practice Quiz
- Pitch and Rhythm Notation
1
Discussions
- Music Notation and Me
4
Videos
- Notation I: Pitch
- Notation II: Rhythmic Notation
- Notation III: Measures and Measure Numbers
- Notation IV: Notation In Action
1
Readings
- Notation Reading
Scales and Keys
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8
Videos
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2
Readings
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Diatonic Set, Major, Minor: Practice Quiz
- Diatonic Set, Major, Minor
1
Discussions
- Sad Minor?
8
Videos
- 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
2
Readings
- More On Minor
- Key Signature Practice
Intervals
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4
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Intervals Practice Quiz
- Intervals Quiz
1
Discussions
- My Favorite Intervals!
4
Videos
- Generic Intervals
- Interval Quality and Diatonic Intervals
- More Diatonic Intervals
- Chromatic Intervals and Inversion
1
Readings
- More On Intervals
Rhythm and Meter
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3
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Discussion
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Rhythm and Meter
1
Discussions
- Fascinating Rhythm
3
Videos
- Accents and Meter Beats
- Rhythm and Meter II: Subdivisions of the Beat
- Meter III: Simple and Compound Meters
1
Readings
- More About Meter and Meter Signatures
Music Notation, Including Meter and Key Signatures
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3
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Meter, Tuplets, Syncopation
3
Videos
- Metric Notation In Practice
- Metric Notation: Tuplets
- Syncopation
1
Readings
- More On Tuplets
Chords: Triads
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3
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Discussion
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Triads
1
Discussions
- When Is A Chord Not A Chord?
3
Videos
- Triads
- Triads II: Inversions
- Triads III: Quality
1
Readings
- More on Triads
Chords: Seventh Chords
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3
Videos
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2
Readings
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Seventh Chords
3
Videos
- Seventh Chords
- Qualities of Seventh Chords
- Fully Diminished Seventh Chords
2
Readings
- More On Seventh Chords
- 7th Chords In Jazz
Chord Notation
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2
Videos
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1
Discussion
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Labeling Chords
1
Discussions
- What Now?
2
Videos
- Chord Symbols
- Roman Numeral Notation
Bruce Taggart