Teaching Workshop: Music Theory Introduction

Basic knowledge of the following points:
a) acoustic and psycho-acoustic nature of sound (vibratory phenomena, their propagation, sound parameters, notion of interval, effects of consonance and dissonance);
b) classification and description of musical instruments;
c) division of the acoustic space into sequences of sounds (scales);
d) basic grammatical elements of musical language and their representation in modern notation;
e) monodic, polyphonic, texture processes;
f) main forms of the western musical tradition;

A concrete familiarity with all this knowledge is consolidated with practical reading and writing exercises, recognition of intervals, construction of triads, fundamental harmonic sequences, essential formal processes.