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Welcome to the Wikiversity School of Music and Dance. This school will offer learning material in music theory, composition, ear training, and history courses. Please feel free to add courses or subject matter.

Divisions and departments

 * African music and dance
 * Basic blues & rock
 * Conducting & musical direction
 * Dance
 * Folk, traditional & country music
 * Hymnology (sacred music)
 * Jazz
 * Music in film
 * Music theory
 * Sound design
 * Voice

Western music
The goal of the 'Theory and composition' department is to equip the student with the tools and skills necessary to compose, arrange and analyze music. At the completion of this course of study, students will possess the skills and knowledge of western theory, creative writing, arranging, as well as having a portfolio of original works.


 * Introduction to music
 * Fundamentals of music
 * Music Theory I
 * Music Theory II
 * Chords
 * Harmony


 * Form and analysis
 * Composition : Beginning
 * Composition, Advanced
 * Lyrical composition
 * Counterpoint
 * Music Technology
 * Arranging
 * Orchestration


 * Film scoring (in conjunction with the Film editing course)
 * Final Theory Project
 * Music appreciation
 * Glossary of musical terms

Ear training
Ear training is learning/training your ears to recognize what you hear and put it down onto paper. These are basic learning guides, exercises and projects to help you understand in a meaningful way the flurry of sound in music.


 * Ear training : intervals and harmony (pitch oriented)
 * Ear training : rhythm

Generalities

 * Music appreciation and history
 * Survey of musical genres
 * Music in film
 * Symphony and opera

Western music

 * Brief History of Western Music
 * Music of the Medieval Era
 * Music of the Renaissance


 * Music of the Baroque Era
 * Music of the Classical Era
 * Music of the Romantic Era
 * Music of the 20th Century

String instruments

 * Violin
 * Viola
 * Violoncello
 * Double bass
 * Fiddle
 * Harp
 * Guitar
 * Acoustic guitar
 * Electric guitar
 * Bass guitar
 * Banjo
 * Mandolin
 * Lute

Woodwind instruments

 * Flute
 * Oboe
 * Clarinet
 * Bassoon
 * Saxophone
 * Soprano saxophone
 * Alto saxophone
 * Tenor saxophone
 * Baritone saxophone
 * Recorder
 * Ocarina

Brass instruments

 * Trumpet
 * French horn
 * Trombone
 * Tuba
 * Euphonium

Percussion instruments

 * Concert percussion (Snare drum, crash cymbals, timpani, etc.)
 * Drum set
 * Mallet instruments (Marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, chimes, etc.)
 * Tabla (an Indian pair of drums)
 * Pipe and tabor

Keyboard instruments

 * Piano
 * Organ

Voice

 * Soprano
 * Contralto
 * Countertenor
 * Tenor
 * Baritone
 * Bass

Hands on

 * Building a cigar box guitar
 * Blues basics
 * Rock basics
 * Wikiversity the movie : music
 * Jamming online
 * Experimental music
 * Practical lessons in film scoring (in conjunction with the film editing course)

Textbooks

 * Music theory
 * Western music history
 * Garageband quick tutorial
 * Triads
 * Sound recording

Open Source softwares
For all operating systems


 * Metronome
 * |Free Music Instrument Tuner (a great tool that has nice features such as showing harmonics, wave form, etc.)
 * Guitar tuner
 * Vtones (cross platform midi editor)
 * Audacity (cross-platform sound editor ; a helpful tool for simple recordings and editing)
 * Ardour (digital audio workstation ; a great program for multi-track recording, mixing, mastering, etc.)
 * Musescore (cross-platform music notation software)

For Linux


 * Calf Plugins (very nice plugins : compressor, multichorus, reverb,etc.)
 * GTick (very nice and useful metronome for Gnome desktop)

Active participants
If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better ; for large schools it is not needed) :


 * CQ
 * HappyCamper
 * Thierry613

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كلية علوم الموسيقى Departamento de Artes Escénicas fr:Faculté:Musique it:Facoltà:Musica ja:School:音楽とダンス pt:Portal:Linguagens e Artes Факультет журналистики
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