About Course
This is where things start to get a little weird.
My approach to music theory is to minimize the 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. If you've tried to learn music theory before, or if you are just starting out - this series of courses is the perfect fit.
This class is Part 18: The 20th Century. It starts what would be the fourth semester of a college music theory class (according to the typical American academic system for learning music theory).
Here is a list of some of the topics we will cover:
- The Big Picture: History
- Collections
- Linear Analysis
- Sets and Subsets
- A Return to Modes
- Whole Tone scales
- Octatonic Scales
- Integer Notation and Analysis
- ...and much, much more!