23 Mar, 2010
Learn the Art of How to Listen to Music
Posted by: Gina Alianiello In: Arts & Humanities|Music
Course / Program Name: Listening to Music
Hosted by / Sponsored by: Open Yale courses
Course of Study: Music
Course Link: Take this course
Description: This introductory course on Listening to Music is a longstanding favorite at Yale College. It includes 23 recorded video sessions by Yale Professor of Music, Craig Wright, author of six books on music.
You will learn to develop aural skills through an historic view of Western music—from the rhythms of jazz and pop, to the bass patterns of blues and rock to the piano music of Mozart and Beethoven. The course will examine how music is put together—from the structure of chords and harmony to various forms like rondos, sonata-allegros, fugues, theme and variations—and even the ostinato. By the end of the course you will be able to discern styles from ancient sounds to Modernism.
The course textbook Listening to Music is written by Professor Wright and includes a six-volume CD set. All lectures are downloadable as written transcripts and in both audio or video formats.