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About the Course

This course, revised in 2022, will introduce you to the theory of music, providing you with the skills needed to read and write Western music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, and listen informedly. It will cover material such as pitches and scales, intervals, clefs, rhythm, form, metre and time signatures, phrases and cadences, and basic harmony. This course covers the fundamentals of Western music theory, from the absolute basics to some more advanced concepts. As such, it delivers material for beginners and offers much to experienced musicians alike....

Top reviews

GE

Apr 1, 2021

Very good course which hammers home the essentials.

Good enthusiastic lecturing and importantly on completion progressed onto Coursera Musicianship Specialisation which I have now almost completed

SS

Aug 22, 2017

It was a very nice course. We were able to understand the basics of music theory and how the notations and chords work. Thank you so much to the entire staff of Edinburgh University and Coursera..:-)

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By Efraín F

Jun 18, 2021

Learning music with FoMT was a great experience and a really helpful way of getting into music theory. I am very grateful.

By Patryk M

Jan 14, 2021

This particular course gave me a lot. I had some fundamentals in music theory, but not as much as I thought. Great course!

By Diego B

Sep 20, 2019

All of the team is composed of very professional and knoledgeable professors who teach with joy and challenge the studens.

By Yuqi W

Nov 21, 2016

Thank you all so much! Really useful course and beginner-friendly journey! Hope to take more classes from your university!

By John C D

Jan 20, 2017

A steep learning curve for someone who has not gone beyond very basic music theory before, but worthwhile nevertheless.

By Lluis G

Oct 10, 2016

awesome, a bit hard at the end but, this course helped me alot to go much better along other courses. Thanks you !

By Raul R B

Sep 23, 2020

Muy buen curso, aprendí mucho sobre Teoría Musical y me ayudó a recordar muchos conceptos de una forma practica.

By Benoît T

Feb 14, 2020

It gives enough material to understand music in its core, with enough enthusiasm so that you want to learn more.

By Diana B

Jun 14, 2021

The instructors are quite knowledgeable about music theory and I would recommend this to my friends and family.

By TYCHICUS D

Jun 5, 2018

Beautifully explained in depth, very comprehensive for beginners to understand the essentials of music theory.

By Rojib S

Jan 19, 2018

This course is really helpful, it extends the music theory of musician. Really good way to learn new things.

By Diego D Á

Oct 10, 2020

I learnt a lot of new things. The course was very well organized and nicely explained. Thank you very much!

By Mohamad a k

Sep 18, 2020

It was fantastic with a valuable amount of musical information and terminology important to every musician

By Jennifer V

Aug 31, 2017

Great information and a great intellectual challenge for an advanced beginning piano student and vocalist.

By Michael N

Mar 14, 2023

I wanted to express my gratitude for this course, thank you for offering this course, it was very useful.

By Anderson C

May 26, 2018

I learned quite a lot of Music Theory, things started to make sense for me! Good job getting this course!

By Eloy S M L

Mar 15, 2017

Excellent!

Not so easy for begginers.

Very Useful. After this course I can explore many new possibilities.

By Oranee M S

Feb 20, 2021

This was a very informative and intense course . I learned a lot that I didn't know about Music Theory.

By Alex.Yu

Feb 1, 2018

It's really good if you want to step into the musical gate. And wish to have more and deeper contents.

By Alan C

Sep 8, 2021

I really enjoyed this course that imparted a good basic knowledge and understanding of music theory.

By Iván R

Nov 15, 2020

Learned a lot, very dynamic and entertaining. Totally recomended, specially if you don't read music

By Rahul B

Nov 8, 2019

Advisable and very good for the beginners, intermediates for students and as well as the teachers.

By Yuki I

Dec 17, 2017

Extremely difficult course, but it explains things very well, has a lot of personality and is fun.

By Christoph W

Jun 22, 2022

very well structured, likeable instructors. Some of the exams are very difficult, but not unfair

By Eduardo S C

Sep 27, 2022

Great course, fully recommend it for those who want to understand the basics of music theory!