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.
Getting Started With Music Theory
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Semaine
13 heures pour terminer
Basic Materials: Overview, Tonality, Notation
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module, you should be able to: (1) discuss the elements of music, (2) explain the difference between tonal and atonal music, (3) sing the tonic in tonal music, (4) identify the fundamental and partials of a note, (5) explain the difference between chord and harmony, (6) explain the five-line staff, (7) read and write notes using treble and bass clefs, and (8) identify rhythmic values in notation. You should be able to (9) distinguish between pitch and pitch class, (10) describe octaves and how to label pitches based on octave placement, (11) identify and write accidentals and find them on the piano keyboard, (12) and define equal temperament (the artificial scale used on the modern piano) and tell how it differs from other tuning systems.
9 vidéos (Total 58 min), 1 lecture, 4 quiz
9 vidéos
Course Overview2 min
Tonality and Atonality6 min
Harmonic Function9 min
Harmonic Hierarchy4 min
Acoustics8 min
Notation I: Pitch8 min
Notation II: Rhythmic Notation6 min
Notation III: Measures and Measure Numbers3 min
Notation IV: Notation In Action7 min
1 lecture
Notation Reading10 min
4 exercices pour s'entraîner
Tonality and Acoustics Practice Quiz6 min
Tonality, Harmony, Acoustics30 min
Notation Practice Quiz8 min
Pitch and Rhythm Notation32 min
Semaine
24 heures pour terminer
Scales, Keys, and Intervals
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module, you should be able to (1) describe the diatonic set and understand how it is used to create major and minor scales, (2) sing major and minor using solfeggio (solfege) syllables, (3) explain the difference between natural, harmonic, and melodic minor, (4) spell major and minor scales starting on any note using accidentals in treble and bass clef, and (5) spell parallel and relative major and minor scales. You should also be able to (6) identify and spell by size and quality diatonic intervals (within a key) and chromatic intervals (outside a key).
12 vidéos (Total 81 min), 3 lectures, 4 quiz
12 vidéos
Major Scales7 min
Key Signatures6 min
Sharp Key Signatures4 min
Flat Key Signatures And The Circle of Fifths4 min
Minor Scales7 min
Relative Minor6 min
Forms Of Minor Scales9 min
Generic Intervals6 min
Interval Quality and Diatonic Intervals6 min
More Diatonic Intervals7 min
Chromatic Intervals and Inversion5 min
3 lectures
More On Minor10 min
Key Signature Practice10 min
More On Intervals10 min
4 exercices pour s'entraîner
Diatonic Set, Major, Minor: Practice Quiz18 min
Diatonic Set, Major, Minor44 min
Intervals Practice Quiz14 min
Intervals Quiz40 min
Semaine
32 heures pour terminer
Rhythm and Meter
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module, you should be able to (1) read and write all possible rhythmic values, including dotted notes and ties, (2) understand how many notes fit within a measure in various meters, (3) determine meter signatures based on note grouping, and note grouping based on meter signatures, (4) define the types of musical accent and how they create a sense of meter, (5) distinguish between duple and triple meters in notation and by sound, and (6) describe and identify metrical syncopation. You should be able to (7) write melodies on the treble, bass, and grand staves using correct meter signatures, note values, rhythmic grouping, stem direction and beaming, and key signatures and accidentals,
6 vidéos (Total 50 min), 2 lectures, 2 quiz
6 vidéos
Rhythm and Meter II: Subdivisions of the Beat7 min
Meter III: Simple and Compound Meters9 min
Metric Notation In Practice9 min
Metric Notation: Tuplets6 min
Syncopation9 min
2 lectures
More About Meter and Meter Signatures10 min
More On Tuplets10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
Rhythm and Meter30 min
Meter, Tuplets, Syncopation30 min
Semaine
43 heures pour terminer
Chords, Triads, and Harmony
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module, you should be able to (1) identify and spell major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads in root position and inversions, and (2) identify and spell major, minor, dominant, half-diminished, and fully diminished seventh chords in root position and inversions. You should also be able to (3) use Roman numeral labels to identify diatonic triads within a key, (4) write triads within a key when given Roman numerals, and (5) spell chords when given pop/jazz chord symbols.
8 vidéos (Total 56 min), 3 lectures, 3 quiz
8 vidéos
Triads3 min
Triads II: Inversions6 min
Triads III: Quality8 min
Seventh Chords7 min
Qualities of Seventh Chords4 min
Fully Diminished Seventh Chords9 min
Chord Symbols7 min
Roman Numeral Notation8 min
3 lectures
More on Triads10 min
More On Seventh Chords10 min
7th Chords In Jazz10 min
3 exercices pour s'entraîner
Triads30 min
Seventh Chords30 min
Labeling Chords30 min
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The course gives much practice and many useful hints to help students easily identify notes, chords and their inversions in sheet music. A very good help to any course in music theory!
A great course to understand Music in a technical way. Has not just helped me understand the concepts but also has inspired me to learn an instrument and apply the concepts.
Enseignant
Bruce Taggart
Associate ProfessorCollege of Music
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