Understanding the Fundamentals of Music - Robert Greenberg Audiobook

Written by Robert Greenberg
Read by Robert Greenberg
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged

No matter what kind of music we listen to—symphony or string quartet, saxophone solo or vocal ballad, hip hop or Gregorian chant—we feel the impact of that music and have done so all our lives, even though we may not know how such impact is achieved, or understand the fundamental processes of musical composition.

But what if we did understand how certain musical effects were achieved? What if we could learn to follow the often-intimidating language of key signatures, pitch, mode, melody, meter, and other parts of musical structure used by composers? What if we could recognize these various components at work as we listened to our favorite music? What if we could “speak” the language of Western music? It’s a language that Professor Robert Greenberg calls rich, varied, and magnificent, and he has little doubt about the rewards of even a beginning level of fluency. In this course, Professor Greenberg offers a spirited introduction to this magnificent language—nimbly avoiding what for many of us has long been the principal roadblock, the need to read music.

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.”

Lectures:
01 - The Language of Music
02 - Timbre, Continued
03 - Timbre, Part 3
04 - Beat and Tempo
05 - Meter, Part 1
06 - Meter, Part 2
07 - Pitch and Mode, Part 1
08 - Pitch and Mode, Part 2
09 - Intervals and Tunings
10 - Tonality, Key Signature, and the Circle of Fifths
11 - Intervals Revisited and Expanded
12 - Melody
13 - Melody, Continued
14 - Texture and Harmony, Part 1
15 - Harmony, Part 2—Function, Tendency, and Dominance
16 - Harmony, Part 3—Progression, Cadence, and Modulation

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