Musical Instruments Courses and Certifications

Guitar for Beginners

22 reviews

Grasp the essentials needed to begin playing acoustic or electric guitar. You'll learn an easy approach to get you playing quickly, through a combination of exploring the instrument, performance technique, and basic music theory. For students who have l…

• Coursera
• 6 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

15 reviews

Our relationship to Beethoven is a deep and paradoxical one. For many musicians, he represents a kind of holy grail: His music has an intensity, rigor, and profundity which keep us in its thrall, and it is perhaps unequalled in the interpretive, technica…

• Coursera
• 12 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Piano Sonata: Russian and 20th-21st Century Composers

In this course, you’ll review sonata form and learn how the piano sonata was revitalized in the 20th century, with a particular attention to composers from Russia, where the sonata was an especially popular and successful genre. You’ll study some of the…

• Coursera
• 4 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Piano Sonata: Beethoven and the Romantics

In this course, learners will review sonata form and learn how the piano sonata was taken to new heights by Ludwig van Beethoven. We’ll discover together how the generation that followed interpreted Beethoven’s achievements and put them into practice in…

• Coursera
• 4 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Piano Sonata: Origins to Mozart

In this course, you’ll be introduced to sonata form; how it works, where it came from, and how sonatas are put together as multi-movement compositions. We will analyze the early history of the piano sonata and discover the important early masters of this…

• Coursera
• 4 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The New World of Arnold Schönberg's Piano Music

This course will introduce you to the solo piano works of Arnold Schönberg (including the Three Piano Pieces (Opus 11), Six Little Piano Pieces (Opus 19), Five Piano Pieces (Opus 23), Suite for Piano (Opus 25), and Piano Pieces (Opus 33a & b). Schönb…

• edX
• 5-10 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Guitar Performance Techniques

Your favorite guitarist didn't become your favorite guitarist without the support of other musicians. The most important skill for a guitarist to learn is the exact same skill that was so important in kindergarten: playing well with others. Guitar Perfor…

• Coursera
• 4 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Part 2

1 review

Welcome to Part 2 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 2. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience…

• Coursera
• 7 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 3. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience…

• Coursera
• 7 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 6

Welcome to Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 6! You’re joining thousands of learners currently enrolled in the course. I'm excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the learning community. To begin, I recommend ta…

• Coursera
• 6 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Reinventing the Piano

4 reviews

The piano remains one of the great achievements of musical instrument design and has long served as a primary creative tool for musicians worldwide. In this course, we will look at how the piano’s design touches on a range of diverse topics, like: where…

• Kadenze
• 5 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Piano I: Introduction to the Piano & Staff

3 reviews

This course presents five sessions in which the student is introduced to playing the piano and reading music. Each session contains a video lecture presented by the Instructor, piano practice assignments and graded assignments that include a quiz about m…

• Kadenze
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Microcredential

Exploring Piano Literature: The Piano Sonata

These courses were filmed at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, among other locations. Across the series, learners will dive into compositions by Scarlatti, CPE Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin…

• Coursera
• 3 hours a week, 13 weeks long
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Piano II: Focus on Reading

This course presents six sessions in which the student continues to expand their knowledge of piano technique, repertoire and musical concepts, including eighth notes, treble C pentascale, G pentascales, sharps and flats and intervals of 4ths, 5ths and 6…

• Kadenze
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions

You’ve got the guitar basics down: You can strum your guitar and play a few of your favorite songs, but you’re ready to take the tunes to the next level. In Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions you’ll expand your knowledge of scales, chord fingerings, an…

• Coursera
• 4 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)