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Music

..... an art form consisting of sound and silence. Elements of sound in music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, structure, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and sub-genres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, or an auditory art form - Wikipedia.

Performing Arts

..... those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object - Wikipedia.

Free Online Courses

BBC Training and Development (UK)

Television (DV Camera Shooting Guides, Lighting Safety, Usage Guides, Good Shooting Guide: the basic principles,Introduction to Video Production, Post Production, Pre-production, Rigorous Recces,Television Glossary), Radio (News Styleguide, Cool Edit Pro (Basics, Editing Process, Multitrack Packaging, Mix Down and Housekeeping), Interviewing for radio, Microphones and sound for radio, Minidisc for Radio), Broadcast Technology (DV Camera Shooting Guides, Journalism,News Styleguide, Good Shooting Guide, Health & Safety (DV Lighting Safety), Broadcast Management (Giving and Receiving Feedback)

Sound for Music technology

Open University (UK), LearningSpace

concept of sound and be introduced to the physics behind travelling pressure waves as the physical manifestation of sound. You will also learn about the subjective perception of pitch and loudness, in particular their relationship to frequency and amplitude.

Lawyers and Film

West Virginia University (US)

What can we learn about ourselves as lawyers from watching lawyer films?: reading films, obstacles to reading, story, hero, screenwriting, genre, theory, academic disciplines, women/film, film journals, links, course writing & resources

Modern Music: 1900-1960

MIT OpenCourseWare (US)

Western concert music of first sixty years of the twentieth century, larger questions of continuity and change in music, of reception, or historiography

Introduction to Western Music

MIT OpenCourseWare (US)

broad overview of Western music from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, with emphasis on late baroque, classical, romantic, and modernist styles (1700-1910), Major composers and their works will be placed in social and cultural contexts: Readings, Study Materials, Related Resources, Listening

Structure and Interpretation of Music Concepts

Carnegie Mellon University (US)

constructive approach in which students build computational models of music theories, how various disciplines contribute theories of music, including psychology, musicology, computer music, artificial intelligence and linguistics: handouts, slides, midi specification

Physics of Music

Illinois University (US)

physics of (sound (propagation of sound waves), hearing (psycho-acoustics), music (all musical styles, and music in the natural world -- living organisms and physical processes), musical instruments (brass, wind, strings percussion, song, electronic, computer and beyond))

Violent Visions - Representations of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Urban Cinema

Cambridge University (UK)

attempts to understand the linkages between the massive upsurge of urban cinema in Latin America and what has been termed the "power geometry" of global capitalism

Sound and Music

Lancaster University (UK)

Sound, frequency, pitch, harmonic content, timbre, intensity, loudness, pressure
& displacement in air, sound intensity in dB; percussion instruments, intervals, melody and harmony, consonance and dissonance, sound generation in strings, wind instruments, waves in pipes, organ design, human voice, formants, human hearing, microphones & loudspeakers, feedback, distortion, recording & broadcasting music, acoustics of rooms, reverberation, concert & lecture hall design.

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