Tom Rudolph's Online Courses: Fall, 2014
Music Notation Using Sibelius
Author: Tom Rudolph Learn to write music notation using Sibelius. Through hands-on lessons and activities you'll learn proven methods and techniques to enter, edit and modify music notation including single and multiple staff scores. You will create lead sheets, choral and instrumental scores, drum maps and guitar notation, and explore many other ways to use Sibelius for your own personal and professional needs. You will become an independent user of Sibelius, and will learn the skills to find solutions to problems that you encounter in the future. You will also learn to share your Sibelius files with others in a variety of venues and formats. |
Music History of the Western World 1: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque
Author: Tom Rudolph | Course Code: OLART-210 Music History of the Western World 1, explores the development of Western European music from its earliest traceable roots during the Antiquity and Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and the Baroque periods. You will experience the music that led to the Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras - music that is, in its own right, sophisticated, diverse, entertaining, solemn, and emotionally rich. Composers studied include Guillaume de Machaut, Josquin des Prez, Claudio Monteverdi, Guillaume Dufay, J.S. Bach, and G.F. Handel. Other relevant information from these periods will be included with a focus on music and its impact on society of the times. |
Music History of the Western World 2: Classical, Romantic, and Modern
Author: Tom Rudolph | Course Code: OLART-211 The course begins with the Age of Enlightenment and the rise of opera, early symphony, and keyboard music, and then explores the emergence of the classical style and the works of Haydn, Mozart, Paradis, and Beethoven. It delves into the Romantic period, profiling such composers as Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wagner, Rossini, Verdi, Brahms, Bruckner, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler, followed by an exploration of impressionism, including the works of Debussy, Fauré, and Boulanger. The course then chronicles music in the 20th century, including such topics as Russia’s Silver Age, atonality, the twelve-tone method, music in Latin America, electronic music, new textures, and minimalism, exploring the music of Ravel, Webern, Clarke, Copland, Barber, Penderecki, Cage, and others. |
Integrating the iPad into the Music Education Curriculum (7554)
Author: Tom Rudolph Looking for ways to integrate the iPad for your own use and/or with your students? This course provides a comprehensive exploration of the many tools and apps that are available. Topics include using the iPad as an interactive whiteboard for class and rehearsal presentations; displaying and annotating music notation and PDF files; exploring apps designed to enhance the study of music theory, ear training and for vocal and instrumental practice and performance; connecting MIDI keyboards, microphones and other music gear to your iPad; recording audio and creating video "screencasts"; creating music notation and composing music with music production apps such as Loopy and GarageBand for iPad; and developing course materials using iBooks Author. You'll leave the course with an awareness of and specific plans for using the iPad as a teaching tool, and in the hands of your students. |
Teaching Music in the Cloud (7544 )
Author: Tom Rudolph Focusing on many of the new developments in cloud-based music teaching, this course takes an in-depth view of how free and low-cost cloud-based tools can be used to enhance teaching and learning in the K-12 music curriculum. Topics include tools for teacher presentations including Google Docs and Prezi; streaming music using Spotify, SoundCloud and the Naxos Music Library; creating playlists and classroom integration strategies for streaming video services such as TeacherTube and YouTube; creating music notation using Noteflight; using "Soundation for Education," a cloud-based audio recording and composition tool; and an overview of Learning Management Systems. You will leave the course with specific plans for integrating cloud-based options for immediate use in your classroom. Students should have access to either a PC or Mac computer. No additional software is necessary. Basic computer skills are required such as setting up accounts & usernames/passwords, basic typing skills, uploading/downloading files, and familiarity using the Internet. |