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Description
This course, Discovering music through listening, will introduce you to the musical elements used by musicians to create a piece of music: pulse, tempo, metre, rhythm, melody, harmony, structure, texture, timbre, and dynamics.
You’ll learn how to identify the different musical elements by taking a particular approach to listening to the music, known as close listening. Alongside developing your listening skills, you will learn how to explain what you hear using technical language.
You do not need to be able to read music notation, play an instrument, or have any prior musical knowledge to be able to complete this course.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Identify the different musical elements in the music you listen to
- Discuss the musical elements that you hear using technical language
- Analyse the musical effects created by composers by thinking about how they use and manipulate the musical elements.
Course Curriculum
- Introduction 00:15:00
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- What is close listening? 00:07:00
- Achieving close listening 00:15:00
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- Introduction 00:05:00
- Pulse: the heartbeat of music 00:15:00
- From pulse to tempo 00:05:00
- Metre: organising the beats 00:15:00
- Organising beats into two, three, four 00:20:00
- Introduction 00:03:00
- Timbre 00:10:00
- Timbre: the effects of register 00:20:00
- Melodic colour in the orchestra 00:30:00
- Summary of Week 2 00:05:00
- Harmony 00:10:00
- Consonant and dissonant harmonies 00:30:00
- Major and minor 00:15:00
- Coming home 00:30:00
- Harmonic progressions: the 12-bar blues structure 01:00:00
- Summary of Week 3 00:03:00
- Combining elements 00:02:00
- Texture 00:25:00
- Monophonic, polyphonic and homophonic textures 00:30:00
- Creating dynamic change in music 00:05:00
- Musical structure 00:15:00
- Reflecting on small-scale musical structure 00:15:00
- Reflecting on large-scale musical structure 00:30:00
- End-of-course summary 00:10:00
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