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Music and Dance
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Welcome to the Wikiversity School of Music and Dance. Music is an extremely broad topic. This school will offer learning material in music theory, composition, ear training, and history courses. The courses in each field of study are numbered in the order that the courses should be completed. Please feel free to add courses or subject matter.

School news August 15 - School founded! -what year? Divisions and Departments Here are the current departments in the School of Music and Dance Music in Film - Participants study the history of music in film and create sound tracks for new movies. Basic Blues & Rock - participants learn and practice the fundamental patterns, chord progressions and other basics of Blues, Rock and related music styles. Department of Music Theory and Composition Music Appreciation and History Department of Conducting And Musical Direction Department of Folk, Traditional and Country Music Vocal Performance Department Sacred Music department Sound Design Learning resources Where are the courses? Waiting for you to create one. Wikiversity is a developing project, and depends on its contributors (anyone can contribute) for its content. Whether you call it a "course" or a "learning project", you can organize it here. Courses/Learning projects can be organised from a new "Topic" page, or directly in the Main namespace (ie without any prefix). We encourage you to take the initiative and add your materials here! Follow these links to learn how: Intro to Learning Projects • The Main Learning Projects Page • Credentials, diplomas & provenance • Policies • Learning • Education Performance Brass instruments Trumpet French Horn Trombone Tuba Euphonium Keyboard instruments Organ Piano Harmonium (Indian music instrument) Percussion instruments Auxiliary Percussion (Cymbals, wind chimes, other toys, etc.) Concert Drums (Snare drum, bass drum, timpani, etc.) Drum set Mallet Instruments (Marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, chimes, etc.) Tabla (an Indian pair of drums) Pipe and tabor World Percussion String instruments Violin Viola Violoncello Double bass Fiddle Harp Guitar Acoustic Guitar Electric Guitar Bass guitar Banjo Ukulele Mandolin Lute Rebec Voice Soprano Contralto Countertenor Tenor Baritone Bass Woodwind instruments Flute Oboe Clarinet Bassoon Saxophone Soprano Saxophone Alto Saxophone Tenor Saxophone Baritone Saxophone Recorder Ocarina Pipe and tabor Bagpipes performing live rock and metal bands Theory and Composition 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 Music Theory III Music Theory IV Chords Harmony Form and Analysis Beginning Composition Lyrical Composition Counterpoint Advanced Composition Music Technology Arranging Orchestration Film scoring -- These lessons allow you to actually score real scenes from television dramas. This course is taught 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 Jazz Studies Jazz Theory Survey of Jazz History Jazz Piano I Jazz Piano II Jazz Vocals Jazz Arranging I Jazz Arranging II Jazz Improvisation I Jazz Improvisation II Subgenres of Jazz African Music African Music and Dance Musicology Intro to Musicology (Wikipedia-Article) Survey of Musical Genres Music in Film The Symphony and the Opera Musicology Final Research Project Ethnomusicology (Wikipedia-Article) New musicology (Wikipedia-Article) What is music? Western Music A 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 Hands On Building A Cigar Box Guitar [1] CBG Building Tips [2] Home Made Electric Pickups [3] Basic Blues & Rock - Blues basics, Rock basics Wikiversity the Movie/music Jamming Online Experimental music Practical lessons in film scoring -- These lessons allow you to actually score real scenes from television dramas. This course is taught in conjunction with the film editing course. Library Musical works available for download 'History of music' on Wikipedia Textbooks Music Theory Western Music History Garageband Quick Tutorial History of Opera Mixing and Mastering:Bass mixdown Tablature:Drums Triads Sound Recording Note to new instructors Proper formatting If you wish to start your own Division or Department in the School of Music and Dance, please use the page naming format of: [[Topic:Your Department Name | Your full departmental name]] Divisions and Departments of this school exist on pages in "topic" namespace. Start the name of departments with the "Topic:" prefix; departments reside in the Topic: namespace. Departments and divisions link to learning meaterials and learning projects. Divisions can link subdivisions or to departments. For more information on schools, divisions and departments look at the Naming Conventions. Active participants The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. 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). Tdawggk Dr. Lovely Sharma, Sitarist Pianist Mr Music play a note Chridall Pedmands Matt Kaner HappyCamper Jonathan Chasteen CQ Robert Elliot, the instructor for the "Film scoring introduction for filmmakers (non-musicians) and the Film scoring for musicians." If you want more information about the courses, you can contact me by clicking here. GeoBardRap Fiddle, ethnomusicology, others. Shadow Song Ahmednh Capacchione Aidan Scott Raspberry - Ear training, Western music theory, many broad topics Bananagirl Nannus the focus of my interest is in African music and dance. I also want to work on making the structure of this school a little less eurocentric. MusicWeaver Randalllin Kittybriton I know a little about the recorder, and its part in early music, so will try to start building a course for recorder students. Richums BigBear - Jazz Vocals (my professional Area), maybe some theory, Arranging and Eartraining Laleena 19:01, 6 July 2007 (UTC) My specialty is Biblical music & musical instruments, including piano & flutophone. Not much theory/composition. Aaron Walden Specializing in folk instruments and early instruments. Dr. Raphael Thoene Graduate in composition, music theory, Ph.D. in musicology. I look forward to contribute a few articles on Music-Theory related questions or musicological concepts. User:Chocoman User:Piratebob13 specializing in Bluegrass, New Acoustic and folk music, especially concerning the mandolin. P.M. Dahl Matt Balmer -- specializing in brass instruments, music theory, and music education in general. User:goodguy007 -- specializing in country and christian music, along with clairnet drum and piano areas. gaidheal1 : I am a professional singer and pianist, currently studying at Birmingham Conservatoire (UK). I look forward to contributing as much as I can! Clockery External links Wikipedia Music Portal Music topics on Wikia Open Source Software for musicians Metronome Free Music Instrument Tuner - a great tool that has nice features such as showing harmonics, wave form,... (Guitar) Tuner Vtones - Cross platform midi editor Audacity - The Free, 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,...) for Linux Calf Plugins - Very nice plugins (Compressor, Multichorus, Reverb,...) GTick - a very nice and useful Metronome for Gnome desktop