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Discovering music through listening provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 9 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

The Open University via OpenLearn
9 hours worth of material
Self Paced
Overview

  • This free course, Discovering music through listening, will introduce you to the musical elements used by musicians to create a piece of music: pulse, tempo, metre, harmony, structure, texture, ...

Syllabus

    • Introduction
    • Introduction
    • What is close listening?
    • Achieving close listening
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week1Week 1: The element of rhythm
    • Introduction
    • 1 Pulse: the heartbeat of music
    • 2 From pulse to tempo
    • 3 Metre: organising the beats
    • 3.1 Organising beats into two, three, four
    • 4 Rhythm
    • 4.1 Rhythmic patterns in Stayin’ Alive
    • 4.2 Rhythmic patterns and metre
    • 5 Summary of Week 1
    • Glossary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week2Week 2: The elements of melody and timbre
    • Introduction
    • 1 What makes a melody?
    • 1.1 Distinguishing sounds: pitch
    • 1.2 Melodic movement
    • 1.3 Skips and steps
    • 1.4 Melodic contour
    • 1.5 Melodic boundaries: range
    • 2 Timbre
    • 2.1 Timbre: the effects of register
    • 2.2 Melodic colour in the orchestra
    • 3 Summary of Week 2
    • Glossary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week3Week 3: Harmony
    • Introduction
    • 1 Harmony
    • 1.1 Consonant and dissonant harmonies
    • 1.2 Major and minor
    • 1.3 Coming home
    • 1.4 Harmonic progressions: the 12-bar blues structure
    • 2 Summary of Week 3
    • Glossary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week4Week 4: Texture, dynamics and structure
    • Introduction
    • 1 Combining elements
    • 1.1 Texture
    • 1.2 Monophonic, polyphonic and homophonic textures
    • 1.3 Creating dynamic change in music
    • 1.4 Musical structure
    • 1.4.1 Reflecting on small-scale musical structure
    • 1.4.2 Reflecting on large-scale musical structure
    • 2 End-of-course summary
    • Where next?
    • Glossary
    • Acknowledgements

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