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Let's talk about some Schumann. Check this piece out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNGjwARMrAA

http://imslp.org/wiki/Dichterliebe,_Op.48_%28Schumann,_Robert%29

It's slippery, isn't it? There's a few really interesting things going on:

• A constantly repeating C#Mm7 chord that never resolves to F# minor - not once!

• A reasonable amount of A major - and it's given a proper perfect authentic cadence! Yet, despite all the contrapuntal support, it's not really convincing, isn't it? This piece is, in my opinion, hardly in A major. Depending on how you hear the opening bar, it's initially hypermetrically weak, and then hypermetrically strong.

• Speaking of hypermeter, the hypermeter shif

I'm a musician and composer in school and I'm wrangling together a music theory class for the University of Reddit. I fully expect this question to come up - and it's a really good one, I think.

If I understand correctly, it has to do with the harmonic series. Certain instruments emphasize certain partials, and what we refer to as 'that oboe sound' is the result of those partials heard together. 'Brightness' is an emphasis on upper partials, and a 'dull' sound lacks partials altogether.

At least, that's what I understand. Is that correct? Am I missing anything? And is there a more effective way of communicating this?

Thanks!

Hello all,

If you made time for the whole live lecture thing this past week, I'd like to sincerely apologize. A combination of work and school made streaming impossible. I'll give more forewarning if I think I'll be unable to do the whole live lecture thing. I've been toying around with justin.tv. Livestream is infested with ads, and I've had a plethora of inconsistencies and reliability issues.

It seems like a significant number of you guys are more interested in some of the more esoteric and difficult aspects of music theory, so I've been poking at a lecture where we take a relatively harmonically complex piece of music and break it down step by step. Taking a leaf from r/musictheory,

An introductory lecture - we'll be discussing what music is comprised of and exactly what music theory is. See you there!

Hello all,

My microphone has a terribly annoying hiss, and I can't imagine anyone sitting through an hour-long lecture listening to it. My options are to find a better mic (and I think I know where to get one), or to figure out how to do live noise-scrubbing. Being able to hear what I'm referring to in my lecture notes would dramatically improve the quality of the class - it's something very important.

I've set up an IRC channel! It's fairly rudimentary, but it'll be a place to get live help if you catch me (or some other charitable music theory fan) while I'm on a computer.

Part two of the second lecture will be up soon. If you have comments, criticisms, or questions of the first part

I've tossed around the idea of teaching an online music theory class for a few months now and found the UoReddit provides an excellent forum from which to organize this sort of thing. Would anyone be interested in a basic music theory class? I'm planning on teaching via Livestream, and supplementing the lectures with written notes.

You can find a sample syllabus here: http://bit.ly/iHBv0A

To sign up, follow this link: http://ureddit.com/class/203

The class subreddit can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music110/

I've tossed around the idea of teaching an online music theory class for a few months now and found the UoReddit provides an excellent forum from which to organize this sort of thing. Would anyone be interested in a basic music theory class? I'm planning on teaching via Livestream, and supplementing the lectures with written notes.

You can find a sample syllabus here: http://bit.ly/iHBv0A

To sign up, follow this link: http://ureddit.com/class/203

The class subreddit can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music110/

In the interest of not being redundant - how basic (or complex) would you guys like the beginning of the class to be? Fundamentals tend to compound upon themselves in music theory, so I don't mind doing a lesson on intervals. If most people don't need it, I'd be happy to dive straight into chord construction and analysis.