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william o'hara
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I'm a music theory professor, mostly publishing videos from my classes. Here, you'll find beginning and advanced topics in music theory, aural skills, film music, and video game music.
Early History of Game Sound, Part 3: How Game Music was Generated
Selected Bibliography (more coming soon!)
Altice, I Am Error (2015). MIT Press.
Collins, Game Sound (2008). MIT Press.
Collins, "Flat Twos and the Musical Aesthetic of the Atari VCS," Popular Musicology Online 1 (2006). www.popular-musicology-online.com/issues/01/collins-01.html
Altice, I Am Error (2015). MIT Press.
Collins, Game Sound (2008). MIT Press.
Collins, "Flat Twos and the Musical Aesthetic of the Atari VCS," Popular Musicology Online 1 (2006). www.popular-musicology-online.com/issues/01/collins-01.html
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History of Early Game Sound, Part 2: A Brief History of Computing and Games
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History of Early Game Sound, Part 2: A Brief History of Computing and Games
History of Early Game Sound, Part 1: Features of Early Game Music
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History of Early Game Sound, Part 1: Features of Early Game Music
What is Ludomusicology? (2024 update!)
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What is ludomusicology? This video introduces you to the scholarly field of video game music studies, including significant organizations, publication venues, and methodological approaches.
Emulator Sound Channels Demo - The Legend of Zelda - KeystoneDH
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Quick demo, showing how sound channels can be turned on and off to understand sound programming in NES games. For presentation with R.C. Miessler (Gettysburg College, Musselman Library) at KeystoneDH, Penn State-Erie, May 22, 2024.
Emulator Sound Channel Demo - Super Mario Bros. - KeystoneDH
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Quick demo, showing how sound channels can be turned on and off to understand sound programming in NES games. For presentation with R.C. Miessler (Gettysburg College, Musselman Library) at KeystoneDH, Penn State-Erie, May 22, 2024.
How to add figured bass, roman numeral analysis, and text underlay in MuseScore 4
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A short introduction to three (not two, as I say) useful tools in MuseScore 4: 0:27 figured bass 2:01 text underlay 5:22 roman numeral analysis
A Rough Guide to Chord Progressions
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A short introduction to understanding chords with roman numerals, and a couple of common progressions. Part 2 coming eventually! See the full lecture handout, including examples of these progressions, here: www.dropbox.com/s/anjgh7e2h2g8id5/Handout - Intro to Pop-Rock Harmony.pdf?dl=0
What are Whole Steps and Half Steps?
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A quick introduction to whole steps and half steps in music theory, illustrated on both guitar and piano.
Music Theory 3: Advanced RhythmicTechniques - Quadruplets, Quintuplets, Septuplets
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A brief tutorial on 4:3 rhythms (quadruplets), 5:4 quintuplets, and septuplets, using mnemonics and guided practice.
Music Theory 3: Changing Meters
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A brief and poorly lit lesson on changing meters (including both simple and compound meters, and unequal meters). Includes conducting, counting, and performing examples, based on material in Berkowitz et al, A New Approach to Sight-Singing, 5th edition.
SMT V 2022 Teaser Trailer - Nov 2, 2021
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SMT V 2022 Teaser Trailer - Nov 2, 2021
Amy Beach Among the Ornithologists (AMS 2021 Director's Cut)
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Amy Beach Among the Ornithologists (AMS 2021 Director's Cut)
A Rough Guide to Sound: The Physics of Pitch, Volume, and Timbre
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A Rough Guide to Sound: The Physics of Pitch, Volume, and Timbre
Music Theory 2 - Applied Dominants (Intro to Tonicization)
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Music Theory 2 - Applied Dominants (Intro to Tonicization)
Music Theory 2 - Descending Third Sequences (aka descending 5-6)
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Music Theory 2 - Descending Third Sequences (aka descending 5-6)
Schenker Diagram Tutorial: W.A. Mozart, Piano Sonata in C Major K 545, 3rd mvt, mm 1-8
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Schenker Diagram Tutorial: W.A. Mozart, Piano Sonata in C Major K 545, 3rd mvt, mm 1-8
O'Hara - Phrase Extensions in Haydn Minuets: A Preliminary Corpus Study (FDoMC Pre-Recorded Talk)
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O'Hara - Phrase Extensions in Haydn Minuets: A Preliminary Corpus Study (FDoMC Pre-Recorded Talk)
O'Hara MTMW 2020 - "It is Sheer Nonsense to Call This Atonal": Leichtentritt on Schoenberg
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O'Hara MTMW 2020 - "It is Sheer Nonsense to Call This Atonal": Leichtentritt on Schoenberg
O'Hara, Atari Adaptations - Preview (NACVGM 2020 Talk)
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O'Hara, Atari Adaptations - Preview (NACVGM 2020 Talk)
Communication, Collaboration, Cancellation: Sound & Music in Atari's Film-to-Arcade Adaptations
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Communication, Collaboration, Cancellation: Sound & Music in Atari's Film-to-Arcade Adaptations
14:10 the accented passing tone 15:32 20:05 appoggiatura 21:41
How to add a natural accidental to the figured Bass?
for me it's letter H
why won't the figures for roman numeral analysis work for me?
I have the same problem, found a solution?
Maestro, thank you for your video "Descending Third Sequences (aka descending 5-6)" this is teaching. I need to ask a question that has to do with the wonderful video you have posted. In regards to the Descending Third Sequence (Down 4 Up 2 (5 - 6) that the (descending 5 -6 ) also pertain to the Ascending Seconds (Down 3 Up 4). Is there an Ascending 5 - 6 and to what Sequence does it pertain. Again, thank for sharing you knowledge with us. Grazie
Merci beaucoup for this. This is slightly out of my pay grade (actually a lot) but I've become the music theory geek, even though my ear training and keyboard skills are lacking. Very simply explained, and I'll soon be moving into another tax bracket.
this is fantastic, thank you!! way better than my textbook haha
can you make tutorial on how to make musical horn using arduino
Does it play the figured bass?
No, Unfortunately, it’s just notation.
I just started my musicology course in uni and this week learned about ludomusicology. I've always wanted to be a VGM composer and the fact that without having studying it in detail I already expected much of this info through experience made me feel like this is the right path to follow. Cheers!
I'm so happy you found this helpful - best of luck with your studies!
This video was super helpful to me, thanks so much! I'm a senior HS student currently taking AP Music Theory and my teacher is really bad. This video helped me a lot!
Glad to hear it was useful! Hang in there!
Thanks 🙏
I love this! Great job! I have studied music and classical piano my whole life. I only knew a little about Amy Beach. Recently, I became interested in bird songs. Your video is amazing! Thank you!
Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Very clearly explained!
Great
Really interesting and helpful ! Thanks !
When you’re right you’re right thanks for the clarity
Good teacher here! Hope he does more famous POP songs 🤣🤣!! Doo wop fun fun!! Enjoyed!!
Chart with letters above are helpful when they light 🕯️ up with roman numbers! Nice!
Well explained.... Best when EACH keynote or chords named by letters 🔤🍎🔠🔠 ! Nice job here... Without rushing it all ..
Very good explanation of a basic, but important, concept. Cheers, William !
As much as I wanna be a Jacob callior , I’m never gonna be anywhere close unless I practice. Guess I’ll be binging all your videos
Can you give us more examples of works in the field of musical meaning/narrative? thanks
Are there any recording of the group video chats? Would appreciate if you can provide. This video was tremendously helpful.
Can i put music on arduino n play whit buttoms next n volumen n repeat?
Hello William, great ideas! Are you reachable on the socials? Thank you!
Play is not the same as game
The 6th-step in the bass from bar 2 to bar 3 is quite unusual, and it's the source of the troubles in the bar before. At all, the bass line is strange, the leading tone b reached from c but not resolved. I would have written the bass rather: c-d-g-f-e-a-g-e-f-d-e-d-c, to avoid the descending scale at the end. Of course, one can write also the scale from a to c, but, in this case, the tonic is rather weak and would deserve one more d-c to be stable.
Thanks, I'm learning counterpoint. This really helps, and wish you could post all the 5 species guides.
Wheeler & Nichols predicted the rise of graphic scores nearly a half-century before their popularization, thanks to birds... Hilarious!
Really really awesome and clear keep it up. (Could you do other sequences as well)?
This is GREAT, it’s just soooo clear, I was surprised keep it up. (Can you do the other sequences)?
Than, you
Thank you*
I love this!
thanks for this vid man a nice introduction into this rather komplex topic
incredible, thank you!
This is amazing thank you!
Nice video mate 👍
Very good
2:31 So now you know better than Mozart what Mozart must have really intended? How did you learn to read the minds of dead people?
I am making a video about adults and play and this is invaluable. Thank you!
Can you play more than one note at a time ?
Hi Jeff - Unfortunately, no - the program runs sequentially, and even if you were to attach multiple speakers, you could not use the "Tone" command to create multiple notes - one note has to stop before the next can sound.
Thank you very much.
Great info in this!!!
Amazingggg!
Nice job - this helped me a lot, and I liked the human touch of watching you write out the exercise with good ol' fashioned pencil and staff paper.
Brilliant revelations
Counterpoint makes me want to reconsider being a music major
Counterpoint has changed my life
i just came here to better understand the concepts and references in Kojima's Death Stranding XD
Thank you for your wonderful video. I'm watching your video now in 2020.
youu explained everything in the best way possible i took hours trying to understand this code no one really explained it but now i get it 100% and i know exactly how to create my melody im grateful you're the best
wooooooooooooooww brooooooo thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
great please upload more about the play