MUSIC THEORY: The Complete Course

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Discover the magic of music with our one-of-a-kind Theory Course, specially designed for beginners in composition and piano performance! 

Unleash your creative potential and embark on an exhilarating journey into the enchanting world of musical theory. Our expert instructors will guide you through the captivating process of constructing melodies and harmonies while providing the essential building blocks for a strong foundation in music. 

As a budding composer, this invaluable knowledge will empower you to explore the realms of counterpoint, harmony, and orchestration, allowing you to create spellbinding musical masterpieces.


For piano performers, this course is your golden key to unlocking a deeper understanding of the music you play. By delving into the underlying principles of musical theory, you will not only enhance your performance skills but also develop the ability to analyze and interpret the intricate elements of the pieces you love.

 Our engaging and interactive approach ensures that you’ll be captivated every step of the way. 

With the knowledge and skills gained from our Theory Course, you will be well-equipped to take your compositions and piano performances to new heights, as you continue to explore the fascinating world of music. Don’t miss this opportunity to ignite your passion and transform your musical journey!

 

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Gisela Paterno Gisela Paterno Author

Elementary: Preparatory Theory

Names of the notes on the keyboard
Lesson 1 of 7 within section Elementary: Preparatory Theory. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Before we start
Lesson 2 of 7 within section Elementary: Preparatory Theory. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Staff. Treble and Bass Clefs
Lesson 3 of 7 within section Elementary: Preparatory Theory. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
How this course works
Lesson 4 of 7 within section Elementary: Preparatory Theory. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Note Values
Lesson 5 of 7 within section Elementary: Preparatory Theory. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Rests. Values
Lesson 6 of 7 within section Elementary: Preparatory Theory. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Time Signatures. Simple and Compound Time
Lesson 7 of 7 within section Elementary: Preparatory Theory. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation – Practical exercises

Notes. Staff. Treble and Bass Clef
Lesson 1 of 9 within section Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation - Practical exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Note Values. Tempo and BPM
Lesson 2 of 9 within section Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation - Practical exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Rest Duration
Lesson 3 of 9 within section Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation - Practical exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Dots and Ties
Lesson 4 of 9 within section Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation - Practical exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Accidentals: Flats, Sharps and Natural signs
Lesson 5 of 9 within section Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation - Practical exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Time Signatures: Simple and Compound Meter. Duple, Triple and Quadruple Meter
Lesson 6 of 9 within section Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation - Practical exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Grouping and Stem direction
Lesson 7 of 9 within section Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation - Practical exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Naming Octaves. Octave registers 
Lesson 8 of 9 within section Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation - Practical exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Enharmonic notes. Double sharps and flats
Lesson 9 of 9 within section Level 1: Basics of Musical Notation - Practical exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Level 2: Time Signatures (Cont.) Intervals

Time Signatures: Odd Meter
Lesson 1 of 6 within section Level 2: Time Signatures (Cont.) Intervals. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Generic Intervals
Lesson 2 of 6 within section Level 2: Time Signatures (Cont.) Intervals. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Specific Intervals
Lesson 3 of 6 within section Level 2: Time Signatures (Cont.) Intervals. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Interval Inversion
Lesson 4 of 6 within section Level 2: Time Signatures (Cont.) Intervals. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
How to write intervals
Lesson 5 of 6 within section Level 2: Time Signatures (Cont.) Intervals. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Key Signatures. Circle of fifths
Lesson 6 of 6 within section Level 2: Time Signatures (Cont.) Intervals. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Level 3: Advanced Rhythmic concepts

Triplets, Duplets, Quintuplets and Sextuplets
Lesson 1 of 3 within section Level 3: Advanced Rhythmic concepts. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Dotted Rhythm grouping
Lesson 2 of 3 within section Level 3: Advanced Rhythmic concepts. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Upbeats and downbeats. Anacrusis
Lesson 3 of 3 within section Level 3: Advanced Rhythmic concepts. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Level 4: Scales

Major Scales
Lesson 1 of 6 within section Level 4: Scales. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Natural Minor Scale
Lesson 2 of 6 within section Level 4: Scales. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Scale Degrees
Lesson 3 of 6 within section Level 4: Scales. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Minor Harmonic Scale
Lesson 4 of 6 within section Level 4: Scales. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Minor Melodic Scale
Lesson 5 of 6 within section Level 4: Scales. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Roman Numeral Notation
Lesson 6 of 6 within section Level 4: Scales. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Acoustics: Overtone series and the beginning of Harmony

Overtone series: Harmonicity and inharmonicity as the foundation of Harmony
Lesson 1 of 2 within section Acoustics: Overtone series and the beginning of Harmony. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Relationship between the overtone series and the Major Scales
Lesson 2 of 2 within section Acoustics: Overtone series and the beginning of Harmony. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Triads

Major and Minor Triads
Lesson 1 of 5 within section Triads. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Augmented and Diminished Triads
Lesson 2 of 5 within section Triads. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Root position, First and Second inversion notation
Lesson 3 of 5 within section Triads. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Roman Numeral Analysis
Lesson 4 of 5 within section Triads. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Diatonic Triads
Lesson 5 of 5 within section Triads. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Exercises

Tonic Family
Lesson 1 of 4 within section Exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Sub-Dominant Family
Lesson 2 of 4 within section Exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Dominant Family
Lesson 3 of 4 within section Exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Analysis
Lesson 4 of 4 within section Exercises. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Family Chords: Minor Mode

Tonic Family
Lesson 1 of 5 within section Family Chords: Minor Mode. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Sub-Dominant Family
Lesson 2 of 5 within section Family Chords: Minor Mode. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Dominant Family
Lesson 3 of 5 within section Family Chords: Minor Mode. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Analysis

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Lesson 4 of 5 within section Family Chords: Minor Mode. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 5 of 5 within section Family Chords: Minor Mode. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Sevenths Chords

Dominant Seventh
Lesson 1 of 9 within section Sevenths Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Major Seventh
Lesson 2 of 9 within section Sevenths Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Minor Seventh
Lesson 3 of 9 within section Sevenths Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Half-Diminished
Lesson 4 of 9 within section Sevenths Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Fully Diminished
Lesson 5 of 9 within section Sevenths Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Augmented Sevenths
Lesson 6 of 9 within section Sevenths Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Seventh inversions
Lesson 7 of 9 within section Sevenths Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Chord Notation in Roman Numerals
Lesson 8 of 9 within section Sevenths Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Voicing concepts
Lesson 9 of 9 within section Sevenths Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Chord Progressions

Common Chord Progressions
Lesson 1 of 4 within section Chord Progressions. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Root movements: Strong, mild and Super-strong
Lesson 2 of 4 within section Chord Progressions. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Analysis
Lesson 3 of 4 within section Chord Progressions. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 4 of 4 within section Chord Progressions. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Cadences

Authentic Cadence
Lesson 1 of 4 within section Cadences. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Plagal Cadence
Lesson 2 of 4 within section Cadences. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Half-Cadence
Lesson 3 of 4 within section Cadences. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Deceptive, Broken or  Interrupted Cadence
Lesson 4 of 4 within section Cadences. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones

Active Steps
Lesson 1 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Non- Accented Passing Notes
Lesson 2 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Accented and Chromatic Passing Tones
Lesson 3 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Non-Accented Ancillary or Neighbouring Tones
Lesson 4 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Accented and Chromatic Ancillary or Neighbouring Tones
Lesson 5 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Incomplete Neighbour
Lesson 6 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Appoggiatura
Lesson 7 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Anticipation
Lesson 8 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Escape Tones
Lesson 9 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Suspensions
Lesson 10 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Retardations
Lesson 11 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Double Neighbouring or “Cambiata”
Lesson 12 of 12 within section Non-Chord or Non-Harmonic Tones. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Harmonisation of Melodies in Major and Minor Modes

Major Modes
Lesson 1 of 4 within section Harmonisation of Melodies in Major and Minor Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 2 of 4 within section Harmonisation of Melodies in Major and Minor Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Minor Modes
Lesson 3 of 4 within section Harmonisation of Melodies in Major and Minor Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 4 of 4 within section Harmonisation of Melodies in Major and Minor Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Harmonic Rhythm

This section does not have any lessons.

Harmonic Textures

Homophonic
Lesson 1 of 5 within section Harmonic Textures. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Chordal
Lesson 2 of 5 within section Harmonic Textures. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Alberti Bass
Lesson 3 of 5 within section Harmonic Textures. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Intermittent
Lesson 4 of 5 within section Harmonic Textures. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Complementary
Lesson 5 of 5 within section Harmonic Textures. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Chord Substitutions

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Neapolitan Chord

How to build it in Major and Minor Mode
Lesson 1 of 3 within section Neapolitan Chord. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Analysis and examples
Lesson 2 of 3 within section Neapolitan Chord. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 3 of 3 within section Neapolitan Chord. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Tonicization

Secondary Dominant chords
Lesson 1 of 6 within section Tonicization. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Examples and Analysis
Lesson 2 of 6 within section Tonicization. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 3 of 6 within section Tonicization. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Secondary Diminished chords
Lesson 4 of 6 within section Tonicization. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Examples and Analysis
Lesson 5 of 6 within section Tonicization. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 6 of 6 within section Tonicization. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Greek Modes

History, structure and Modern uses
Lesson 1 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Ionian
Lesson 2 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Dorian
Lesson 3 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Phrygian
Lesson 4 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Lydian
Lesson 5 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Mixolydian
Lesson 6 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Aeolian
Lesson 7 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Locrian
Lesson 8 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Gradient of light and dark in Greek Modes
Lesson 9 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Analysis and exercises
Lesson 10 of 10 within section Greek Modes. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Mode Mixture or Modal Interchange

What is modal interchange and when to use it
Lesson 1 of 4 within section Mode Mixture or Modal Interchange. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Application in Major and Minor Modes
Lesson 2 of 4 within section Mode Mixture or Modal Interchange. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Examples and Analysis
Lesson 3 of 4 within section Mode Mixture or Modal Interchange. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 4 of 4 within section Mode Mixture or Modal Interchange. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Augmented Sixth Chords

Italian
Lesson 1 of 6 within section Augmented Sixth Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
French
Lesson 2 of 6 within section Augmented Sixth Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
German
Lesson 3 of 6 within section Augmented Sixth Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Swiss or English-German
Lesson 4 of 6 within section Augmented Sixth Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Analysis
Lesson 5 of 6 within section Augmented Sixth Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 6 of 6 within section Augmented Sixth Chords. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Modulation

What is Modulation and when to use it
Lesson 1 of 8 within section Modulation. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Tonicization Versus Modulation
Lesson 2 of 8 within section Modulation. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Closely and Distantly related Keys
Lesson 3 of 8 within section Modulation. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Modulation by Dominant chords 
Lesson 4 of 8 within section Modulation. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Diatonic Pivot Chords and Common Chords
Lesson 5 of 8 within section Modulation. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Enharmonic Modulation
Lesson 6 of 8 within section Modulation. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Examples and Analysis
Lesson 7 of 8 within section Modulation. You must enroll in this course to access course content.
Exercises
Lesson 8 of 8 within section Modulation. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Revision and Exercises

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