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This online course teaches the basic elements of music appreciation and music history. Its integrated approach allows students with no previous musical experience to explore the history of music through reading, listening, writing assignments, concert attendance, and research. Topics covered in the 14-lesson course include the appreciation process, musical styles and taste, music history, sound, musical instruments, listening techniques, elements of music, and roles of composers, performers, and listeners. Stylistic periods in music span from the early beginnings of music into the twenty-first century.

Lessons

1. Music & Culture: An Introduction
2. Sounds & Its Sources: Musical Instruments & the Orchestra
3. The Language of Music: Basic Elements & Forms
4. Monophony to Polyphony: Medieval, Gothic & Renaissance
5. Review: Medieval, Gothic & Renaissance
6. Detail, Contrast & Emotions: The Baroque Period
7. Genius, Poise & Passion: The Viennese & the Romantic Periods
8. Braving the Musical Elements: The Twentieth Century & New Music
9. Review: The Viennese & Romantic Periods
10. Braving the Musical Elements: The Twentieth Century & New Music
11. Musical Themes & Development Topics 1-5: includes a Special Focus: The Concerto
12. Musical Themes & Development Topics 6-7: includes a Special Focus: Chamber Music
13. Musical Themes & Development Topics 8-9: includes a Special Focus: World Music
14. Review: The Twentieth Century & New Music

This online course has been designed to cover the concepts, vocabulary, and subject matter in a college-level introductory course in the history of rock and roll. The course focuses on the essential chronological relationship and follows the interesting historical threads outlined throughout the history of rock. Through a wide range of reading and listening assignments, this online course provides tools for intelligent listening, and encourages the development of a greater understanding of musical structures and forms. Whether a student is planning to pursue additional studies in the field of music or taking this online course to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of the incredibly rich world of rock and roll, we believe students will find it interesting, entertaining, and enriching.

The course's integrated approach allows students with no previous musical experience to explore the history of jazz through reading, listening, writing assignments, concert attendance, and research. Topics covered in the 15-lesson course include the historical periods of jazz, biographies of jazz greats, as well as instrumental legacies, oral and literate traditions, and jazz as an art form.

Thank you for your interest. This course is coming soon.

Thank you for your interest. This course is coming soon.

Thank you for your interest. This course is coming soon.

This online course has been designed to cover the concepts, vocabulary and subject matter of an introductory college level course. Students will learn to recognize and identify the basic characteristics of music and the cultures that have interacted with them. Key features of music from around the world are discussed, and students develop an appreciation of the cultures that have given birth to that music. In addition to learning about the basic characteristics of music, students will also gain knowledge in musical textures such as monophony, heterophony, homophoby and polyphony.

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