Music and its media

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Music and its media provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 16 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.

Overview
  • This free course, Music and its media, examines some of the main ways in which music is transmitted. It considers how the means of communicating a particular piece can change over time; and how the...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 How is music transmitted?
    • 1 How is music transmitted?
    • 1.1 Different musical media
    • 2 Music manuscripts of the sixteenth-century Low Countries
    • 2 Music manuscripts of the sixteenth-century Low Countries
    • 2.1 The music manuscripts of the Alamire workshop
    • 2.2 Two manuscripts from the Alamire workshop
    • 2.3 The contents of the Brussels manuscript
    • 2.4 The contents of the Vienna manuscript
    • 3 Music publications of eighteenth-century London
    • 3 Music publications of eighteenth-century London
    • 3.1 John Walsh and the London audience
    • 3.2 Examining Walsh’s publications
    • 3.3 Corelli and the London audience
    • 3.4 John Walsh, Estienne Roger and Corelli’s solo sonatas
    • 3.5 Walsh’s editions of Corelli’s Opus 5
    • 4 Music recordings of twentieth-century America
    • 4 Music recordings of twentieth-century America
    • 4.1 The V-Disc programme
    • 4.2 The form of V-Discs
    • 4.3 The content of V-Discs
    • 4.4 The meaning of V-Discs
    • 4.5 Meanings of V-Disc music
    • Conclusion
    • Glossary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements