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Format:

Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording, Electronic Resources

Author:

Greenberg, Robert, 1954- author.

Title:

Understanding the fundamentals of music / Robert Greenberg.

Publisher, Date:

[Chantilly, Virginia] : The Teaching Company, [2007]

Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books.

Description:

16 audio discs : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 PDF disc.

digital optical

audio file CD audio

text file PDF

Summary:

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-- Publisher.

Series:

The great courses. Topic, Fine arts & music. Subtopic, Music appreciation

Great courses (Compact disc)

Subjects:

Music -- Instruction and study.

Music theory.

Music appreciation.

Musical analysis.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Other Author:

Teaching Company.

Recorded Books, LLC.

Notes:

"Course no. 7261."

Compact discs.

PDF disc contains course workbook.

In container (17 cm.).

The length of each lecture is: ca. 45 min. The entire program consists of 16 lectures.

Lecturer: Professor Robert Greenberg, San Francisco Performances.

Contents:

The language of music -- Timbre, continued -- Timbre, part 3 -- Beat and tempo -- Meter, part 1 -- Meter, part 2 -- Pitch and mode, part 1 -- Pitch and mode, part 2 -- Intervals and tunings -- Tonality, key signature, and the circle of fifths -- Intervals revisited and expanded -- Melody -- Melody, continued -- Texture and Harmony, part 1 -- Harmony, part 2 : function, tendency, and dominance -- Harmony, part 3 : progression, cadence, and modulation.

ISBN:

9781490659558

1490659552

Publisher Number:

GC0027

7271

PC7261A

Other Number:

898127873

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

585026

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

GREAT CD 781.1 Greenber