(calming piano music)
- I'm really excited
about creating this class
because it's really virtually
a tasting menu of incredible techniques
that will allow students to
expand their musical vocabulary.
- This is the fourth of
a series of four courses,
and it is the culmination of a series
which goes through tonal harmony,
and then, this one especially,
extends beyond tonal harmony,
presenting the foundation for
anyone who wants to be a
composer, and theorist,
or even a complete musician.
A really important skill that students
are gonna walk away from this course
is that they are able to look at music
and understand how it works.
They will be able to analyze it,
they will understand what's
going on in the music
and what makes it dissonant or consonant,
how they can control
dissonance and consonance,
and how composers have figured this out
and created these systems.
Students get to see how
the same concept works
in a classical piece,
maybe a very modern piece,
a medieval piece, a
jazz piece, a pop piece,
and see that many of these
concepts are universal,
and often it's the elements of style
that make the difference,
not actual pitch elements
and chord elements.
- This course is obviously for people
who have gone through
levels one through three.
It was designed originally for students
in the Bachelor of Professional Studies
and Scoring for Media,
but anyone who's interested
in increasing their knowledge
in terms of music theory
and compositional technique
will find a treasure trove
of new information and experiences.
