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Developing Your Musicianship

Nurture your love for, and understanding of, music with this specialization. Learn the fundamentals of music theory, including major and minor tonalities, chord scales, song forms, and chord qualities. You’ll also practice training your ear to hear and recognize various intervals, chord progressions, and chord qualities. For the Capstone project, you will directly apply the knowledge you’ve gained to write and perform a short musical composition. This specialization begins with the basics of music and builds to more advanced concepts, providing you the knowledge you need to improve your skills as a musician.

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Four courses

Developing Your Musicianship

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Learn the fundamental concepts and approaches needed to understand, create, and perform contemporary music.

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Musicianship: Chord Charts, Diatonic Chords, and Minor Keys

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After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the second course in the series. If you have a basic knowledge of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I, this course will continue to help you understand key musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music.

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Musicianship: Tensions, Harmonic Function, and Modal Interchange

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After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the third course in the series. If you have a general understanding of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I and II, this course will continue to help you understand musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music.

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Developing Your Musicianship: Final Project

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This course guides you through the final project for the Developing Your Musicianship Specialization. It helps you apply musical concepts to create and perform a 36-measure composition.

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Learning objectives

Aurally identify musical intervals, chords, and chord progressions
Write and practice major and minor scales in a variety of keys

Compose a 12-bar blues with a melody
Define and discuss harmonic function and modal interchange

Aurally identify musical intervals, chords, and chord progressions
Write and practice major and minor scales in a variety of keys
Compose a 12-bar blues with a melody
Define and discuss harmonic function and modal interchange

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50 hours

Level

Introductory

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Institution

Berklee

Instructor

George W. Russell, Jr.

Level

Introductory

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