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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2422yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Video
  • Welcome to the course
Readings
  • Is this course right for you?
  • How to Pass This Course
  • Accessing Music in the Course
  • Instructor Presence and Staff Support 
  • Forum Guidelines
  • Requesting Peer Reviews
  • Academic Integrity
  • About Performing
  • About CalArts and the School of Music

Videos
  • Let's Talk About Music
  • The Richness of Simplicity, part 
  • The Richness of Simplicity, part 
  • Context and Discrete Function
  • Neighbor Notes and Passing Tones
  • Context Gives Notes Function
  • Cadences
  • How to Grade: Write a Gregorian Chant
  • An Utterly Different Aesthetic, part 
  • An Utterly Different Aesthetic, part 
  • Leaps vs. Steps
  • Chromaticism: Outside Notes
  • The Next Chromatic Note
  • Sequence
  • How to Grade: Write a Slow Jazz Song
  • How to Grade: Write a Folk Song
Readings
  • Week 1 Glossary & Playlist
  • Optional Practice: Medieval Notation
  • Optional Practice: Modern Notation
  • Optional Practice: MIDI Notation
  • Some Lessons Learned
  • Optional Practice: Antiphon
  • Optional Practice: Improvise a Melody
  • Optional Practice: A Little Musical Idea
  • Some More Lessons Learned
  • Talking About Folk Music
  • Examples of Folk Music
Practice Exercises
  • Reinforce Your Knowledge: Remember New Terms
  • See it then Hear it: Over the Rainbow (Required)
  • Hear it then See it: White Christmas (Required)
  • See it then Hear it: The Riddle Song (Required - Honors)

Videos
  • Complex Simplicity: Repetition and Expectation
  • Repetition
  • How to Grade: Write Like a Classical Composer
  • Less is More: Chopin
  • Less is More: Ives
  • Some Lessons Learned
  • Brahms Rhapsody
  • Schoenberg's Piano Concerto
  • Single Ladies / It's a Small World / Your own personal nightmare earworm
  • Three Expansive Tunes
  • How to Grade: Write Like a Romantic Composer
  • How to Grade: Write like an Early 20th Century Composer
  • How to Grade: Write an Earworm
  • Boulez, Selon Pli
  • John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis
  • How to Grade: Write Like a Mid- to Late 20th Century Composer
  • How to Grade: Write Like a Wombat
Readings
  • Week 2 Glossary & Playlist
  • Some Lessons Learned
  • Listen First: Chopin, Withers, Ives
  • Less is More: Withers
  • Optional Practice: I Want You
  • Optional Practice: One Note Samba
  • Optional Practice: Musica Ricerata
  • Listen First: Brahms & Schoenberg
Practice Exercises
  • See it then Hear it: Diaphonic Suite #1 (Required)
  • Hear it then See it: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Required)
  • See it then Hear it: 1- (Required - Honors)

Videos
  • Introduction to Consonance and Dissonance
  • The Physics Of It All
  • The Culture & Context You Swim In
  • The Functional Relationship
  • A Three-Minute History of Medieval Music
  • A bit more about medieval music—and meter
  • Introduction to 'The Rules'
  • A Simple Explanation of Counterpoint, part 
  • A Simple Explanation of Counterpoint, part 
  • Adding Dissonance
  • How to Grade: Counterpoint, Part One: A&B
  • How to Grade: Counterpoint, Part Two: C&D
  • Josquin in two voices, part 
  • Josquin in two voices, part 
  • Creatively Breaking Rules
  • Breaking the Rules In Order To Make New Rules in Order to Figure Out What Rules Are
  • How to Grade: Counterpoint, Part Three: E&F
Readings
  • Week 3 Glossary & Playlist
  • Optional Practice: Meter
  • Optional Practice: An informal analysis of Josquin
  • Optional Practice: Two Beautiful Pieces
Practical Exercises
  • Physical Consonance (Required)
  • See it then Hear it: Broken Rules (Required)
  • Hear it then See it: Broken Rules (Required)

Videos
  • More Than Two Voices At A Time: The Beginning of Harmony
  • Demonstration: 3-part voice leading
  • Cadences, part 
  • Cadences, part 
  • Melodic Aspect to Cadences
  • Tonal Function
  • More about the Leading Tone: A diversion into Rock and Country
  • Rock/Pop vs. Country
  • Getting back to Tonal Function: Subdominant
  • Some simple examples
  • Subdominant Feelz
  • Recap of Harmonic Function
  • All Triads in a Key
  • Mozart Piano Concerto, Part 
  • Mozart Piano Concerto, Part 
  • Mozart Piano Concerto, Part 
  • How to Grade: Complete the Cadences (Final Assignment)
  • Conclusion
Readings
  • Week 4 Glossary & Playlist
  • Listen to Haydn and Pärt
  • Listen First: Stairway to Heaven & Coal Miner's Daughter
Practice Exercises
  • See it Then Hear it: Piano Sonata #1 (Required)
  • Hear it and See it: Dove Sono (Required)
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