My name is Marc
Lowenstein and I'm on
faculty at the Herb Alpert
School of Music at CalArts.
I'd like to invite you to join
me for the four-week
online course,
Approaching Music Theory: Melodic
Forms and Simple
Harmony on Coursera.
I've designed a course that can
help you approach music theory in
a way that is both holistic
and enjoyably analytical.
We're going to start not from the
theory part of music theory,
but from the music
part of music theory.
I do take particular pleasure
in an approach to
music theory that includes
active performance,
active listening, and
active amusement.
As a working conductor and
composer specializing
in modern Opera,
and contemporary jazz, and
as a teacher at CalArts,
I see a lot of
different musical styles.
I love sharing an approach
that helps people
articulate in detail
those endlessly fascinating
questions such as,
why do we love music so much
and what does music do?
By the end of this course,
I think you'll be able
to talk about music,
to hear music,
and to read music with
more specificity and
with a more informed sense
of love of music.
This class is appropriate for
many different levels and
backgrounds and it's going
to be fun. Come on in.
