How music works - course RUB 3,375. from Level One, training 5 lectures for 2 hours, Date: November 29, 2023.

What music was like before: from the Stone Age to Pythagoras
- what were the first musical instruments;
- what music sounded like 1000 years before its official birth;
- is music possible without man and did it exist before man;
- what and how we hear, and what we want to hear;
- why Pythagoras is considered the creator of the first musical system and what is the music of the spheres;
- what are Pythagorean modes;
- how the musical system is structured, and where harmony arises in it;
- why the foundations of this harmony are based on the nature of sound.

Just about musical notation, consonance and dissonance
- why are the notes called do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si;

- why notes are difficult to master on your own;
- how to read notes and understand what is recorded in them and how;
- why notes are a universal language that will be understood throughout the world;
- what is consonance and why we like it;
- why do we need unpleasant consonances - dissonances;
- how the alternation of discomfort and comfort is used in other forms of art;
- why some consonances are pleasant to us, and some are not;
- how to organize experimental tests of music theory;
- Do we all feel the same way about what is pleasant in music?

What makes music harmonious: chords and keys 
- the revolution that major and minor chords brought about;
- why there were practically no such chords in the music of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance;
- why classical, jazz, rock and pop music consist of these chords;
- how to visualize musical harmony - getting acquainted with the space of multiplicities;
- why the space of multiplicities is not studied in music school, and why it is impossible to understand harmony without it;
- how did musical tonality appear, how is it related to major and minor chords;
- what tonalities look like in the space of multiplicities and what is their logic;
- what is the difference between music written in different systems;
- what is a wolf fifth and what does Bach have to do with it.

Revolution in music: Bach's temperament
- what is temperament;
- why classical music begins with the figure of Bach;
- how Bach changed music with the help of tempered musical scales;
- why this approach is still used today and how it influences modern music;
- how musicians experimented in the 20th century: dodecaphony, quartertones, microchromatics;
- how not to get confused in classical music, because there is so much of it.

How music has changed in the 20th century and what will happen next
- how new styles of music of the 20th century appeared: jazz, rock and roll, disco, hip-hop;
- experiments in academic music: from noise music to the performance of silence;
- how science has studied music in the 20-21st century and how it can help music;
- how to explain the evolution of music with the help of science and extend this line into the future.