Yale Music Course

Take this course for Yale College credit

Craig Wright is teaching his course through the Yale Summer Online. This course runs from July 8 - August 9 and features extensive interaction with faculty and fellow students. Click here to learn more and apply to this course.

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Course Structure

This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2008.

About the Course

This course fosters the development of aural skills that lead to an understanding of Western music. The musical novice is introduced to the ways in which music is put together and is taught how to listen to a wide variety of musical styles, from Bach and Mozart, to Gregorian chant, to the blues.

MUSI 112: LISTENING TO MUSIC

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Sessions

Lecture 1	Introduction
Lecture 2	Introduction to Instruments and Musical Genres
Lecture 3	Rhythm: Fundamentals
Lecture 4	Rhythm: Jazz, Pop and Classical
Lecture 5	Melody: Notes, Scales, Nuts and Bolts
Lecture 6	Melody: Mozart and Wagner
Lecture 7	Harmony: Chords and How to Build Them
Lecture 8	Bass Patterns: Blues and Rock
Lecture 9	Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven
Lecture 10	Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations
Lecture 11	Form: Rondo, Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations (cont.)
Lecture 12	Guest Conductor: Saybrook Orchestra
Lecture 13	Fugue: Bach, Bizet and Bernstein
Lecture 14	Ostinato Form in the Music of Purcell, Pachelbel, Elton John and Vitamin C
Lecture 15	Gregorian Chant and Music in the Sistine Chapel
Lecture 16	Baroque Music: The Vocal Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Lecture 17	Mozart and His Operas
Lecture 18	Piano Music of Mozart and Beethoven
Lecture 19	Romantic Opera: Verdi's La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo
Lecture 20	The Colossal Symphony: Beethoven, Berlioz, Mahler and Shostakovich
Lecture 21	Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet
Lecture 22	Modernism and Mahler
Lecture 23	Review of Musical Style

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