Greenberg Robert. Understanding the Fundamentals of Music

Teaching Company, 2007. — 115 p.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 fundamentalsLecture Guides
Professor Biography
Course ScopeThe 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 FifthsIntervals 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
Appendix
TimelineBiographical Notes