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Understanding musical scores provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 12 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.

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12 hours worth of material
Self Paced
Overview

  • This free course, Understanding musical scores, provides a general introduction to how to understand a musical score, and insights into what professional musicians do with the notation that these ...

Syllabus

    • Week1Week 1: Understanding the principles of musical scores
    • Introduction
    • 1.1 Types of musical score
    • 1.1.1 How do musical scores work?
    • 1.1.2 Some things notations do
    • 1.1.3 What should a musical score capture?
    • 1.1.4 The ear-eye connection
    • 1.2 Introducing pitch and rhythm
    • 1.2.1 A little bit of history
    • 1.2.2 Working with neumes
    • 1.2.3 Guido of Arezzo
    • 1.3 Organising time
    • 1.3.1 Finding the beat
    • 1.3.2 Close listening
    • 1.3.3 What are you listening for?
    • 1.3.4 Comparing notes: reading a musical score
    • 1.3.5 Single line notation in context – the bigger picture
    • 1.4 Week 1 summary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week2Week 2: Pianists and piano scores
    • Introduction
    • 2.1 Variations on a theme
    • 2.1.1 Getting started with piano scores
    • 2.2 Melody and harmony
    • 2.2.1 Texture
    • 2.2.2 Texture in big band jazz
    • 2.2.3 Discussing Mozart
    • 2.2.4 Comparing notes: the kaleidoscope of piano textures
    • 2.3 Some new symbols
    • 2.3.1 Fitting sound and silence together
    • 2.3.2 Visualising textures in a score
    • 2.3.3 Practising your skills
    • 2.3.4 Fitting it all together
    • 2.4 Week 2 quiz
    • 2.5 Week 2 summary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week3Week 3: Musical collaboration and the role of the score
    • Introduction
    • 3.1 Working collaboratively with a score
    • 3.1.1 Introducing new genres
    • 3.1.2 Working with instruments
    • 3.2 Instrumental colour
    • 3.2.1 New textures
    • 3.2.2 Instrumental tone colour
    • 3.2.3 Layering and balancing sounds
    • 3.2.4 Layered textures
    • 3.2.5 The Trout revisited
    • 3.3 Introducing jazz instrumentation and notation
    • 3.3.1 Big band timbres and textures
    • 3.3.2 Putting it all together
    • 3.4 Week 3 summary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week4Week 4: Understanding orchestral scores
    • Introduction
    • 4.1 Score order
    • 4.1.1 Staves and systems
    • 4.1.2 A conductor discusses: orchestral rehearsals
    • 4.1.3 Coordinating movement
    • 4.1.4 Synthesising sight and sound
    • 4.1.5 Following the score
    • 4.2 A conductor discusses: developing a performance
    • 4.2.1 Mahler - what to look out for
    • 4.2.2 Keeping track - Mahler Symphony No.1, third movement
    • 4.3 Following a motif
    • 4.3.1 A conductor discusses: interpretive approaches
    • 4.3.2 Double bar
    • 4.4 Week 4 quiz
    • 4.5 End-of-course round-up
    • Acknowledgements

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