Instruments Course
This Instruments Course equips music professionals with essential tools to classify instruments by type, explain their sound production principles, and compile concise, well-researched teaching dossiers. Participants will confidently teach, write about, and analyze orchestral and global instruments using structured frameworks like Hornbostel-Sachs categories, basic acoustics, and reliable sources for lessons and workshops.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
The Instruments Course provides a structured approach to classifying musical instruments, understanding their sound production via basic acoustics, and using Hornbostel-Sachs categories. Learners will master concise descriptions of mechanics, history, and cultural roles, while building practical teaching dossiers and comparison summaries for immediate use in classrooms, workshops, and educational initiatives.
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Develop skills
- Master instrument classification to quickly identify families and categories.
- Gain insight into sound mechanics to explain tone production in strings, winds, and percussion.
- Create concise teaching dossiers with clear profiles for three instruments rapidly.
- Develop historical context skills to trace origins, design evolution, and styles.
- Curate citations and sources to select and present reliable references for teaching.
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