Understanding the art of film music
Learn about the musical languages of well-known film scores and add techniques to your toolbelt whether you are a composer, teacher, performer, researcher, journalist, or enthusiast.
Former professor of music theory, Mark Richards, breaks film music down into its basic elements, making even the most complex techniques easy to understand.
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Customize your learning of reading music with this comprehensive course, which covers all aspects of basic musical notation, scales, and chords. With nearly 3 hours of video lessons, 750 flashcards, and 220 quiz questions, and the ability to jump to any page in the course at any time, you can focus on the skills that you want to develop. Get this course absolutely free when you enroll in Diatonic Harmony!
I worked as a Professor of Music Theory for several years in universities, specializing in film music, Beethoven, and rock music in my teaching and research. For more than two decades, I have taught music theory and analysis to all ages and at all levels from the community music school to the large university. I have published articles on film music and have a new chapter on John Williams’ Star Wars themes forthcoming in 2022.
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To avoid copyright infringement, this course contains no score excerpts or audio from film scores. Students are directed to find and listen to soundtrack excerpts while the course content consists of:
1. Music theory connecting the techniques to be discussed
2. Analysis describing the techniques behind the assigned excerpt, and
3. Composition tutorials applying the techniques to original compositions
To avoid copyright infringement, this course contains no score excerpts or audio from film scores. Students are directed to find and listen to soundtrack excerpts while the course content consists of:
1. Music theory connecting the techniques to be discussed
2. Analysis describing the techniques behind the assigned excerpt, and
3. Composition tutorials applying the techniques to original compositions