Understanding the Fundamentals of Music / Robert Greenberg
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TextSeries: The great courses: Fine arts & music. Music application. Course no. 7261 Publication details: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, c2007Description: iv, 109p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Includes DVDSubject(s): DDC classification: - 22 MUK 781.1 GRE
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Course no. 7261
Course guidebook includes Professor biography, course scope, lecture outline, timeline, glossary, bibliographic notes, and bibliography.
For anyone wanting to master music's language, being able to read musical notation is a necessity. But this course, as Professor Greenberg notes, is a basic course, designed to introduce you to music's language in a way that is similar to the way you learned your own native language, by "discovering and exploring musical syntax through our ears-- by learning what the parts of musical speech sound like--rather than what they look like on paper." By sidestepping the necessity to read music, these lectures represent an extremely rare opportunity in musical education--an opportunity to experience a solid introduction to music theory's basics in a way that is not technically intimidating, yet provides a substantial grounding in the fundamentals
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