william o'hara
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.
Music Theory 1: Triad and Seventh Chord Positions Explained Using Lego
MT1 Analysis Session - Tonic Prolongation (Beethoven Piano Sonata, Op. 14, no. 2, 2nd movement)
Music Theory 1: Writing Second Species Counterpoint in class
Early History of Game Sound, Part 3: How Game Music was Generated
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
What is Ludomusicology? (2024 update!)
Emulator Sound Channels Demo - The Legend of Zelda - KeystoneDH
Emulator Sound Channel Demo - Super Mario Bros. - KeystoneDH
How to add figured bass, roman numeral analysis, and text underlay in MuseScore 4
A Rough Guide to Chord Progressions
A Rough Guide to Musical Intervals
A Rough Guide to Scales
A Rough Guide to Triads
What are Whole Steps and Half Steps?
Music Theory 3: Advanced RhythmicTechniques - Quadruplets, Quintuplets, Septuplets
Music Theory 3: Changing Meters
Music Theory 2: Suspensions
SMT V 2022 Teaser Trailer - Nov 2, 2021
Amy Beach Among the Ornithologists (AMS 2021 Director's Cut)
ES9: Tone Melody
ES9: Arduino Hardware Intro
Playing with Sound
A Rough Guide to Sound: The Physics of Pitch, Volume, and Timbre
Music Theory 2 - Applied Dominants (Intro to Tonicization)
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
O'Hara - Phrase Extensions in Haydn Minuets: A Preliminary Corpus Study (FDoMC Pre-Recorded Talk)
Music Theory 1: Embellishing Tones
SMT Forward Video - 2020