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Music Theory Comprehensive: Part 4 - Modes and Counterpoint
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About Music Theory Comprehensive: Part 4 - Modes and Counterpoint
Welcome & Overview
Tools We Need
Review: Scales
Review: Diatonic Chord Progressions
Overview of Modes
How Modes Work
The History of Modes
The Ionian Mode
The Dorian Mode
The Phrygian Mode
The Lydian Mode
The Mixolydian Mode
The Aeolian Mode
The Locrian Mode
From Old To New Again
Analysis: The Simpsons TV Theme Song
Analysis: Choir Example
Analysis: The Beetles: Eleanor Rigby
Melodic and Harmonic Intervals
Using Visual Landmarks
Compound Intervals
Major, Minor, and Perfect Intervals
Rules of Inversion
Summary of Intervals So Far
Augmented and Diminished Intervals
The Tritone
Enharmonic Equivalence
Consonance and Dissonance
Rules of Resolution
Interval Classes
Analyzing Intervals
What is Counterpoint?
Different "Species"
Connecting Melodic Intervals
Rules of First Species Counterpoint
Connecting Harmonic Intervals
Types of Contrapuntal Motion
Parallel Fifths and Octaves
The Beginning and the End
The Middle
Riemenschneider
All The Rules
What Next?
Thats it! (For now...)
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What You Will Learn?
- For years I've been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. These classes I'm making for Skillshare use the same syllabus I've used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost. I believe anyone can learn Music Theory - and cost shouldn't be a barrier..
- Recently I was named as a semi-finalist for the Grammy Foundation's Music Educator of the Year award because of my in-person university classes. Now I'm taking those classes to Skillshare in an online format in order to reach more students and give them the joy of Music Theory..
- My approach to music theory is to minimize memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own..
- This class is a Comprehensive class - it will have many parts, going through my entire annual curriculum..
- This class is Part 4: Modes (Musical Modes, AKA The Church Modes) and Counterpoint..
- Throughout this class, I'll be providing you with many worksheets for you to practice the concepts on. If you get stuck, you can review the videos or post a question, and I'll back to it as fast as possible. Also in this class, I have several complete analysis projects that we will complete together - just like in my college classes..
- In this class, we will cover:.
- And of course, once you sign up for Part 4 - Modes and Counterpoint you automatically get huge discounts to all the upcoming parts of this class..
- You will not have another opportunity to learn Music Theory in a more comprehensive way than this. Start here..
- Dr. Jason Allen is an Ableton Certified Trainer and a Ph.D. in Music Composition and master of Electronic Sounds. His music has been heard internationally in film, radio, video games, and industrial sound, as well as the concert hall and theater. His 2015 album, Aniscorcia, reaching the CMJ Top200 Charts and radio broadcasts nationwide. In 2014 he was named a semi-finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award..
- He currently is a professor at Augsburg University and the CEO of Slam Academy in Minneapolis..
- Praise for classes by Dr. Jason Allen:.