Solfege at your fingertips 2
Ref. MUSEN-2
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Effort: 40 hours
- Pace: ~8 hours/week
MUSEN-2+2T2024
- Enrollment
- From April 8, 2024 to April 30, 2025
- Course
- From May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025
- Languages
- English
Description
Welcome to the MOOC series: Solfege at your fingertips.
This series of free online courses focuses on music theory and its application through music theory.
Music theory is often perceived as difficult to understand, and music theory as complex to learn. These courses aim to change this perspective by offering a dynamic method that links music theory to the sounds it represents from the very beginning. In addition to the many animated videos that will be presented, activities and exercises will allow you to develop the reflexes necessary to read musical texts.
High school music programs often focus on ensemble playing, leaving less room for music theory. Furthermore, with the many music software programs available, it is easier to create music without mastering and understanding the mechanics of tonal music. It is thus to deprive oneself of all the richness of the colors and the possibilities that this one can bring. Whether you want to study music or are an amateur musician, you can take your playing to the next level by fully mastering the language of music!
The first MOOC in the series focuses on writing pitch, note names and accidentals, as well as understanding intervals, the relationship between two notes.
This second MOOC deals with tonality, the major scale and the different minor scales.
In the third MOOC, we will see the construction of 3 tone chords, 4 tone chords and tonal harmony.
In the fourth MOOC (to come), we will discover the writing of rhythms, simple and compound measures as well as binary and ternary beats.
Solfeggio and dictation preparation: Throughout these courses, we will also offer you numerous solfeggio capsules where you will be able to work on your sight-reading with our students, as well as a series of capsules where you will be guided step by step to make musical dictations. These capsules were prepared by Sylvie Ouellette who has been teaching ear training for over 20 years at Cégep Marie-Victorin. Each capsule will be followed by exercises on the theme previously discussed. Thanks to this incredible tool, you will be able to put into practice all the theoretical notions you have learned and be ready for your college or university auditions.
We hope that this series will help you demystify music theory so that you can read a score with as much pleasure as you would have reading a good novel!
Welcome to this MOOC series: Solfege at your fingertips
Other course runs
Archived
- Solfege at your fingertips 2, enrollment from Oct. 11, 2022 to March 28, 2024
Course team
Target audience
This series of courses is designed to adequately prepare students for admission to a pre-university or university music program, so that they can begin their studies with a solid foundation.
This course is designed for music enthusiasts as well. Whether they play an instrument, sing or compose music, they will learn to read and write music while mastering the mechanisms that structure it.
Course area
- Music
- Jazz and classical performance
- Composition
Course content
Solfege at your fingertips 2
Module 1 - the major scale
The tones and semitones, the names of the degrees, the pentacord and tetrachord, the weaves and the key in sharps and flats, the cycle of fifths and the enharmonic scales.
Module - Preparation for Dictation and Major Solfege
Degrees 123, degrees 1234, the lower pentacord, the 1st degree arpeggio, etc.
Module 2 - The minor
Numerical naming and the three minor modes, the relative minor, homonymous scales, enharmonic scales and the use of accidentals in minor.
Module - Dictation and minor solfege preparation
The lower pentacord, 1st degree arpeggio and tonal attractions, harmonic tetrachord, natural tetrachord, etc.
Design team
Design of the project
Matthieu Van Vliet | Music teacher
Music Department, Cégep Marie-Victorin
Design of the solfege and dictation activities
Sylvie Ouellette | Music teacher
Music Department, Cégep Marie-Victorin
Production of the videos and pre-editing
David Blain | Specialist in teaching aids and techniques
Audiovisual Service, Cégep Marie-Victorin
Mathieu Racicot | Technician in audiovisual practical work
Audiovisual Service, Cégep Marie-Victorin
Design of the interactive exercises
Alex Soucy | Master's student in Music Interpretation
Faculty of Music, Université de Montréal
Consultation and revision of the contents
Luce Beaudet | Associate Professor
Faculty of Music, Université de Montréal
Sylvie Ouellette | Music teacher
Music Department, Cégep Marie-Victorin
Techno-pedagogical support
Caroline de Coninck | Pedagogical Advisor
Center de pédagogie universitaire, Université de Montréal
Mediatization - CPU team
Center de pédagogie universitaire, Université de Montréal
Cédric Joyal | Media Designer
Video editing, programming and integration
Francis Brosseau | Media Designer
Video editing
Mélodie Averna | Media Designer
Integration of interactive exercises
David Baltazar | Graphic Designer
Logo and trailer
Jean-Christophe Schaffner | Graphic designer
Character of Matthieu
Quality control
Vincent Laberge | Techno-pedagogical assistant
Center de pédagogie universitaire, Université de Montréal
Special Projects Advisor
Robert Gérin-Lajoie | EDUlib Coordinator
Center de pédagogie universitaire, Université de Montréal
Thanks to Jonathan Ménard and the students of Cégep Marie-Victorin for their precious collaboration.
Rights of use and reproduction
The contents of this course are available under the Creative Commons license "CC BY-NC-ND".
This course is a collaboration between the Music Department of Cégep Marie-Victorin and the Faculty of Music and the Centre de pédagogie universitaire of the Université de Montréal.
Organizations
This course is part of a program
Solfege at your fingertip
Series of 4 courses on EDUlib