Unit One: Philosophy of Music

1. What Is Music

2. Why Do Humans Compose Music?

3. Why Do I Enjoy Some Performances More Than Others?

Unit Two: Science of Music

4. How Does Sounds Travel?

5. What Is the Connection Between Mathematics and Music?

6. What Is Sympathetic Resonance?

Unit Three: Theory of Music

7. What Is Music Theory?

8. What Is Musical Form?

9. What Is Rhythm?

10. What Is Melody?

11. What is Harmony?

12. What is timbre (or Orchestration)?

Unit Four: History of Music

13. Would You Like To Be a Scholar?

14. What Are the Historic Periods of Music? Part 1

15.  What Are the Historic Periods of Music? Part 2

16. How Has 20th/21st Century Technology Changes the Culture of Music?

17. How Did Our System of Musical Notation Develop?

Unit Five: Anthropology of Music

18. What Is the Difference Between Folk Music and Art Music?

19. How Do Musical Genres Develop?

20. What Are the General Trends of Ethnomusicology in the U.S.?

21. How Are Instruments Sorted?

Unit Six: Sociology of Music

22. Why Do We Listen to Music?

23. What Is it Like to Play in a Symphony?

24. How Does Non-verbal Communication Work on Stage?

Unit Seven: Sport of Music

25. How Do Musicians Acquire and Maintain Their Physical Skills?

26. What are the Typical Roles in an Ensemble?

27. Why Do Musicians Need a Conductor?