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Music Composition 1

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Music Composition 1, available at $99.99, has an average rating of 4.62, with 120 lectures, 21 quizzes, based on 2168 reviews, and has 14982 subscribers.

You will learn about By the end of the course you will be able to compose your own rhythms and melodies. This includes motifs, phrases, periods and phrase groups. You will also learn how to develop your rhythmic and melodic material through a wide variety of compositional techniques. You will get practice transcribing music (hearing rhythms and melodies and then writing them down in notation form). You will get practice notating music using music notation software. You will be prepared to study harmony and form in Music Composition 2 This course is ideal for individuals who are Every student of music! or Beginning Composers/Songwriters or Composers/Songwriters with previous knowledge or experience who want to brush up and hone their skills (and maybe learn some new techniques!) or Anyone who has always wanted to learn how to write music! or Although this course uses many examples from classical music, most of the information and compositional techniques learned in this course can be used by musicians of any genre (including rock, pop, and jazz) It is particularly useful for Every student of music! or Beginning Composers/Songwriters or Composers/Songwriters with previous knowledge or experience who want to brush up and hone their skills (and maybe learn some new techniques!) or Anyone who has always wanted to learn how to write music! or Although this course uses many examples from classical music, most of the information and compositional techniques learned in this course can be used by musicians of any genre (including rock, pop, and jazz).

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Summary

Title: Music Composition 1

Price: $99.99

Average Rating: 4.62

Number of Lectures: 120

Number of Quizzes: 21

Number of Published Lectures: 120

Number of Published Quizzes: 21

Number of Curriculum Items: 141

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 141

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

  • By the end of the course you will be able to compose your own rhythms and melodies. This includes motifs, phrases, periods and phrase groups.
  • You will also learn how to develop your rhythmic and melodic material through a wide variety of compositional techniques.
  • You will get practice transcribing music (hearing rhythms and melodies and then writing them down in notation form).
  • You will get practice notating music using music notation software.
  • You will be prepared to study harmony and form in Music Composition 2

Who Should Attend

  • Every student of music!
  • Beginning Composers/Songwriters
  • Composers/Songwriters with previous knowledge or experience who want to brush up and hone their skills (and maybe learn some new techniques!)
  • Anyone who has always wanted to learn how to write music!
  • Although this course uses many examples from classical music, most of the information and compositional techniques learned in this course can be used by musicians of any genre (including rock, pop, and jazz)

Target Audiences

  • Every student of music!
  • Beginning Composers/Songwriters
  • Composers/Songwriters with previous knowledge or experience who want to brush up and hone their skills (and maybe learn some new techniques!)
  • Anyone who has always wanted to learn how to write music!
  • Although this course uses many examples from classical music, most of the information and compositional techniques learned in this course can be used by musicians of any genre (including rock, pop, and jazz)

Music Composition 1 is the first course in a series of two courses that teaches how music is put together and how to write your own music. The course is divided into two parts. Part one covers the study of rhythmic composition. Part two covers the study of melodic composition. (Harmony and form are studied in Music Composition 2)

Course lectures consist mainly of video but also include some text. Each section of the course covers a particular concept (or related concepts). Concepts and compositional techniques are demonstrated throughout the course with real musical examples (pictures and audio samples).

Besides lectures, each section of the course also contains memory questions, section quiz, listening assignments, and transcription/composition assignments. Memory questions serve to summarize and reinforce key concepts learned, while the quizzes test the students’ knowledge and understanding of the material from each section. Students who take this course will get practice transcribing music (hearing a rhythm or a melody and writing it down). In the composition assignments students will get real life practice using the information and techniques learned in each section to write their own rhythms and melodies.

Who should take this course? Every student of music should know how to compose! It is a sad but true fact that most modern music teachers and music courses do not include music composition as part of the students’ musical education. In the past it was typical for students of music to be able to compose music. The “complete” musician can play an instrument, has knowledge of music theory AND can also compose! If you want to deepen your understanding of music, learn to write it!

Course Includes:

  • 190 Diagrams and Audio Samples (to illustrate concepts taught)

  • 125 Memory Questions (to reinforce concepts taught)

  • 90 Transcription and Composition Assignments (to practice the concepts taught)

  • 76 Listening Assignments

  • 21 Quizzes

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: RHYTHMIC TRANSCRIPTION

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Why Compose?

Lecture 3: Getting Things to Paper

Lecture 4: Memory Questions (sec.1)

Lecture 5: Transcription Assignments for Section 1

Lecture 6: Listening Assignments (sec.1)

Chapter 2: THE RHYTHMIC MOTIF

Lecture 1: Uniformity and Variety

Lecture 2: Music's Relation to Language

Lecture 3: Coming Up With Ideas

Lecture 4: Memory Questions (sec.2)

Lecture 5: Composition Assignments (sec.2)

Lecture 6: Listening Assignments (sec.2)

Chapter 3: THE RHYTHMIC PHRASE

Lecture 1: The Musical Sentence

Lecture 2: Memory Questions (sec.3)

Lecture 3: Composition Assignments (sec.3)

Lecture 4: Listening Assignments (sec.3)

Chapter 4: TYPES OF RHYTHMIC PHRASES

Lecture 1: Categorizing Phrases

Lecture 2: Memory Questions (sec.4)

Lecture 3: Composition Assignments (sec.4)

Lecture 4: Listening Assignments (sec.4)

Chapter 5: RHYTHMIC PERIODS & PHRASE GROUPS

Lecture 1: The Period

Lecture 2: The Phrase Group

Lecture 3: Memory Questions (sec.5)

Lecture 4: Composition Assignments (sec.5)

Lecture 5: Listening Assignments (sec.5)

Chapter 6: RHYTHMIC DEVELOPMENT – PART 1

Lecture 1: Augmentation

Lecture 2: Diminution

Lecture 3: Memory Questions (sec.6)

Lecture 4: Composition Assignments (sec.6)

Lecture 5: Listening Assignments (sec.6)

Chapter 7: RHYTHMIC DEVELOPMENT – PART 2

Lecture 1: Truncation

Lecture 2: Expansion

Lecture 3: Displacement

Lecture 4: Memory Questions (sec.7)

Lecture 5: Composition Assignments (sec.7)

Lecture 6: Listening Assignments (sec.7)

Chapter 8: CONVEYING MOOD THROUGH RHYTHM

Lecture 1: Rhythmic Mood

Lecture 2: Memory Questions (sec.8)

Lecture 3: Composition Assignments (sec.8)

Lecture 4: Listening Assignments (sec.8)

Chapter 9: MELODIC TRANSCRIPTION

Lecture 1: Definition of Melody

Lecture 2: The Nature of Melody

Lecture 3: How Melody is Formed and its Connection to Speech

Lecture 4: Notating Melody

Lecture 5: Memory Questions (sec.9)

Lecture 6: Transcription Assignments (sec.9)

Lecture 7: Listening Assignments (sec.9)

Chapter 10: THE MELODIC MOTIF

Lecture 1: Another Form of Motif

Lecture 2: Memory Questions (sec.10)

Lecture 3: Composition Assignments (sec.10)

Lecture 4: Listening Assignments (sec.10)

Chapter 11: MELODIC DEVELOPMENT – PART 1

Lecture 1: Repetition

Lecture 2: Transposition

Lecture 3: Sequences

Lecture 4: Memory Questions (sec.11)

Lecture 5: Composition Assignments (sec.11)

Lecture 6: Listening Assignments (sec.11)

Chapter 12: MELODIC DEVELOPMENT – PART 2

Lecture 1: Intervallic Expansion and Compression

Lecture 2: Octave Transfer

Lecture 3: Change of Tonality

Lecture 4: Memory Questions (sec.12)

Lecture 5: Composition Assignments (sec.12)

Lecture 6: Listening Assignments (sec.12)

Chapter 13: THE MELODIC PHRASE

Lecture 1: The Musical Sentence Revisited

Lecture 2: Multiple Motifs

Lecture 3: Transposition of Multiple Motifs

Lecture 4: Memory Questions (sec.13)

Lecture 5: Composition Assignments (sec.13)

Lecture 6: Listening Assignments (sec.13)

Chapter 14: THE MELODIC PERIOD

Lecture 1: Types of Melodic Phrases

Lecture 2: The Melodic Period & Phrase Group

Lecture 3: Memory Questions (sec.14)

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