Getting Started With Music Theory
Learn the basics of music theory with this brief introduction course. Explore pitch, rhythm, notation, scales, keys, and more. Perfect for beginners or those wanting to understand how music is organized and notated. By the end, you’ll be able to read and write music, harmonize melodies, and even pursue advanced theory and composition. Taught by Bruce Taggart, an experienced music theory professor at Michigan State University. Start your musical journey today!
This course is a brief introduction to the elements of music theory for those with little or no music theory experience. We will explore pitch, rhythm, meter, notation, scales, keys, key signatures, meter signatures, triads, seventh chords, and basic harmony. If you listen to music or play music by ear, and you want to know more about how music is organized and notated, this course is for you.
By the end of the course, you should know all major and minor keys, how to read and write in treble and bass clef using standard meters and rhythmic values, and how to notate and harmonize a simple melody. This course can serve as a stand-alone basic music theory course, or it can be a springboard to more advanced theory and composition courses.
Your instructor is Bruce Taggart, Associate Professor of Music Theory at Michigan State University, in the College of Music, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate music theory since 1996.
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