Description
In this course, you will learn
- The Master college-level Music Theory Class.
- Compose music in the style of the great composers.
- Create more emotional music using suspensions, resolutions, and non-chord tones effectively.
- Pitches and Pitch Classes.
- The keyboard layout.
- The 2 main clefs.
- Reading Rhythms.
- The main musical symbols you find in scores.
- The 4 main scale patterns.
- The 3 notes in any chord (and how to find them!).
- Analysis projects of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and some modern music as well!.
- How 7th chords work.
- Keys and Key signatures.
- The circle of fifths.
- The 7 scale degrees.
- Compound meters.
- The 3 types of minor scales.
- Diatonic chord progressions.
- The 7 Modes.
- The 12 intervals.
- The 5 types of counterpoint.
- Writing melodies.
- Melodic embellishment.
- The 5 types of cadences.
- Harmonizing melodies.
- Figured bass.
- Harmonizing chorale melodies.
- Passing chords.
- Sequences by chords.
- Changing keys.
- Diminished chords and tonic expansion.
- Identifying phrases.
- Motives.
- Sentences, periods, and melody structure.
- Secondary dominants.