Private: Faculty of Fine Arts
Music
Open Textbooks and Concordia Courses
| Open Textbook Title | Potentially Relevant Courses |
| Music: Its Language, History and Culture | MHIS 204 |
| Fundamentals of Music Theory | MUSI 201 |
| Open Music Theory – Version 2 | MUSI 201 |
| A Practical Approach to Understanding Music Theory | MUSI 201 |
| Understanding Basic Music Theory | MUSI 201 |
| Fundamentals, Function, and Form: Theory and Analysis of Tonal Western Art Music | MUSI 223 |
| Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context | MUSI 223 |
| Sound Reasoning | MUSI 223 |
| Understanding Music: Past and Present | MUSI 223 |
| Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method Book and Video Series |
Description and Access
Music: Its Language, History and Culture
The chapters in this book contain definitions and explanations of musical terms and concepts, short essays on subjects related to music as a creative performing art, biographical sketches of major figures in music, and historical and cultural background information on music from different periods and places.
Includes: instructor and student resources
May suit: MHIS 204 Music History from 1800 to the Present
Fundamentals of Music Theory
This open e-book is the result of a project funded by a University of Edinburgh Student Experience Grant. It presents materials that deal with the building blocks of musical stave (sometimes known as staff) notation, a language designed to communicate about musical ideas which is in use around the world. The resources in this e-book include video lectures and their transcripts, as well as supporting text explanations, examples and illustrations. The materials introduce topics such as the organization of discrete pitches into scales and intervals, and temporal organization of musical sounds as duration, in rhythm and metre. These rudiments are presented through an introduction to the elements of five-line stave notation, and through critical discussion of the advantages and limitations served by notational systems in the representation and analysis of musical sounds. This serves as the basis of further explanations, to illustrate musical concepts including key, time signature, harmonisation, cadence and modulation.
May suit: MUSI 201 Introduction to Music Fundamentals
Open Music Theory – Version 2
Open Music Theory is an open-source, interactive, online textbook intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. OMT2 has been designed inclusively. Topics range beyond the standard harmony and atonal theory to include fundamentals, musical form, jazz, pop, and orchestration. And within those traditional sections of harmony and atonal theory, the authors have deliberately chosen composers who represent diverse genders and races.
Includes: interactive music-notation modules
May suit: MUSI 201 Introduction to Music Fundamentals
A Practical Approach to Understanding Music Theory
A Practical Approach to Understanding Music Th