Creative Courses and Certifications

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

3 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution, will introduce you to issues around the sexual revolution and how this, and other contemporary social revolutions of the 1960s, impacted ...

• OpenLearn
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Listening for form in popular music

2 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms ...

• OpenLearn
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

2 ratings at OpenLearn

Music is created to be performed, in most cases for an audience, whether in a concert hall, at a street fair or through a radio. But how those listeners receive a piece or style of music influences...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

2 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems, looks at the short poems in German that were set to music by Franz Schubert (17971828) for a single voice with piano, a genre known ...

• OpenLearn
• 16 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to music theory 1: form

2 ratings at OpenLearn

Learn to identify musical form through close listening, using AABA, genre-specific terms, and visual diagrams across folk, popular, and classical traditions.

• OpenLearn
• 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Innovation through representation

1 rating at OpenLearn

Innovations are realised through design, and some of the most useful tools in the designer's toolbox are the representations that are used to move from a vague idea, to a concept, and then to a ...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Seeing the light

1 rating at OpenLearn

This free course, Seeing the light, will teach you about how the Sun affects your home, both in terms of light and warmth and the energy it generates. You will learn about how it can affect your ...

• OpenLearn
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Cultures

1 rating at OpenLearn

In this free course, Cultures, you will address the question of traditional music and music from the francophone world, and you will examine the place they occupy in the world of artistic creation....

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground, continues our examination of 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of ...

• OpenLearn
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

The music of Mozart has been used to examine the foreground and middleground of harmony in free courses AA314_1 and AA314_2. In this free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background, ...

• OpenLearn
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

SketchUp Free Tutorials - Online Version

6 ratings

Learn SketchUp Free through beginner tutorials covering house modeling, floor plans, materials, images, units, printing, 3D Warehouse, and free rendering.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bass Patterns in Blues and Rock - Lecture 8

Learn to hear bass patterns and identify three- and four-chord harmonic progressions across popular and classical music.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Sonata-Allegro Form in Mozart and Beethoven - Lecture 9

Explores sonata-allegro form through harmonic analysis and examples from Mozart and Beethoven.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

Tecnología musical con software libre

269 ratings at Coursera

Explora la tecnología musical mediante producción con Ardour, programación sonora, Arduino, música colaborativa y un proyecto integrador.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 7 courses

Puppet Pin Rigging in After Effects

286 ratings at Udemy

Rig and animate a 2D cartoon character in After Effects: import layered PSD files, apply Puppet Pins, adjust mesh expansion and density, and export the animation.

• Udemy
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course