Blog 8: A subject I enjoyed studying this semester

Hi everyone! I hope the last week had been nice for you :)

In spite of the difficulties of studying by the online way, I think this semester I have learned many things. Some of the subjects have been more problematic, but there are others that have been very interesting to me.

These are "Workshop: Music Reading and Ear Training" and "Basic Harmony I". In the first one, we learn about theoretical elements of music, practice our reading and hearing skills and also we analyze music, popular songs and classic music. The main contents we have seen in the workshop are harmonic functions, chords, musical intervals, musical scales, rhythm on music, among others.

The second signature don't belong to my curriculum map (it belongs to the career Musical Composition), but I decided to add it because I want to go into detail about the area of musical composition. In the signature we learn about harmony, specially theoretical knowledge and examples, and we practice harmonizing some melodies. The main contents we have seen are rules to harmonize, musical keys, harmonic functions, musical candences, among others.

I like both signatures because they helped me to discover the hidden elements inside the music around me, and appreciate the music in a different way.

See you soon!

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