Music Courses and Certifications

Valerio Velardo - The Sound of AI

Limitations and Future Vision of Generative Music AI

1 rating

Examines the limitations of generative music systems and research, and considers ways forward in deep learning, music representation, and interface design.

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

Fandom, Community, and Identity in Popular Music

Explore what it means to be a music fan: analyze case studies from Kendrick Lamar to k-pop, practice close listening and self-reflection, and create your own fandom project.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Strategies for Success in your Music Career

Take inventory of your musical skills, craft a mission statement, set and measure goals, manage your time, and build a professional network to advance your music career.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Procedural Music Software with Max

Matthew Davidson is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music’s Electronic Production and Design department. He is the course coordinator of the sound synthesis curriculum.

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

Music Theory

2 ratings

Learn music theory online with our comprehensive courses. Suitable for candidates preparing for ABRSM exams.

• YouTube
• 19 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

University of Victoria Career Certificate

Music Information Retrieval

5 ratings

Build music information retrieval systems: spectral analysis, monophonic pitch estimation, beat tracking, genre and mood classification, music recommendation, query-by-humming, and automatic chord detection.

• Kadenze
• 96 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Scores and Music Representation - Class 4

Explores how musical scores can be represented and coded efficiently for computer analysis.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Painting Emotions in Music and Text - Video 12a

A corpus-based analysis of how emotion is painted in music and text.

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

Music Representation - Ontology, Taxonomy, and Efficient Encoding - Class 5

Examines ontology, taxonomy, and efficient encoding as ways to represent music for computational analysis.

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

How Do Computers "Hear" Music? - Class 1

A live coding session asks what it means for a computer to hear music and how that differs from human listening.

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

Corpus Studies and Statistics in Computational Music Theory - Class 14

An in-class analysis of Bach and Haydn pairs close and distant listening with corpus statistics and music21 tools.

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

Music Visualization and Optical Music Recognition - Class 31

Examines how music theory can expose and correct optical music recognition errors when converting notation images into scores.

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

Music Representation III - Unlocking Pitch in music21 - Video 6a

Explore how music21 represents pitch through the functions of its Pitch object.

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

Music Information Retrieval - Sound to Score and Music Theory - Video 9a

An introduction to how translating audio into notation raises problems in music theory and analysis.

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

Music Representation and Hierarchies in Computational Music Theory - Class 7

Explores music representation and hierarchical structures through readings and live coding with the music21 toolkit.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video