Free Online Music and Art Courses

Indulge your creative side with music and art courses that cover various forms of artistic expression, from painting to musical composition. A music and art course can enrich your life while enhancing your skills.

85 Music and Art Courses

The Technology of Music Production

Berklee

Learn about the music production process—including recording, editing, and mixing—and the tools available to you to create contemporary music on your computer....

UI / UX Design

California Institute of the Arts

The UI/UX Design Specialization brings a design-centric approach to user interface and user experience design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered...

Visual Elements of User Interface Design

California Institute of the Arts

This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design...

Web Design: Wireframes to Prototypes

California Institute of the Arts

This course is focused on the application of the early UX research to actual user interfaces: the creation of wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and clickable prototypes....

What Is Contemporary Art?

The Museum of Modern Art

What is contemporary art? In this course, you’ll consider this question through more than 70 works of art made between 1980 and the present, with a focus on art...

Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan

The University of Tokyo

In their ambition to capture “real life,” Japanese painters, poets, novelists and photographers of the nineteenth century collaborated in ways seldom explored...

Write Like Mozart: An Introduction to Classical Music Composition

National University of Singapore

This course introduces students to strategies for style writing of common practice European art music. The issues of harmonic progression, voice leading, and texture...

Writing a Personal Essay

Wesleyan University

This class is the chance to create your personal essay or extend into a full memoir -- from planning and structure to bold narrative brushstrokes to the layering...

Writing Stories About Ourselves

Wesleyan University

In this course, creative nonfiction writers will explore traditional storytelling methods, especially those which overlap between fiction and memoir. By looking...

中國園林文學 (一) (Chinese Garden Literature (1))

National Taiwan University

本課程以文人園林為窗口,觀察中國古典文學如何處理人與空間的關係。中國園林自秦漢上林宮苑樹立規模,隨著歷朝社會文化發展,唐宋以降逐漸凝塑出文人園林的主要美學型態。園林營造出一個可居可遊的人文活動空間,相關的書寫活動亦蓬勃展開。本課程選擇具代表性的案例,觀察園主如何營造一個可居可遊的人文活動空間,並藉由詩文記存相關的審美經驗、精神意趣與人生觀省。...

剪辑:像编剧一样剪辑

Fudan University

剪辑台前,剪辑师就像厨师对待食材一样,摆弄着拍摄现场记录下来的影像片段,用影像和声音去捕捉线索和瞬间,讲述一个故事,同时赋予故事以力量、以情感。怎样平衡剪辑給画面带来的跳跃?当有几条情节线索相互穿插时,又应使用哪些剪辑手法?剪辑过程和编剧的过程一样,以叙事和抒情为最高准则,同时不断突破陈规,创造专属于自己的独特风格。本课程将带领学习者从剪辑开始,认识镜头,认识剪辑的语法,揭开微电影创作的神秘面纱。...

東坡詞 (Ci Poetry of Su Dong Po)

National Taiwan University

東坡詞如秋夜的星光、月色,既遙遠又親近。我們以愉悅的心情展讀《東坡詞》,徜徉於〈水調歌頭〉、〈江城子〉、〈定風波〉與〈念奴嬌〉等作品裡,如晤故人,自能心領神會,除了可以看見天才駕馭技巧的藝術表現,更可貼近東坡的內在世界,親切感受一個偉大心靈的躍動,以豐富我們的生命境界,讓我們知曉如何在人情世界中尋得心靈的安頓。...

透过摄影看世界

The Museum of Modern Art

对于我们中的许多人来说,虽然拍照、分享和浏览照片已经成了日常生活中的习惯,但我们与图像的频繁接触并未培养我们在视觉表达上的素养。...