9 Best Music Theory Courses on edX
We compared 9 Music Theory courses currently listed on edX, priced from $59.00 to $169.00. 3 come from a named university or institution, including Berklee College of Music, Adelaide University and Harvard University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 9
- Price range
- $59.00 – $169.00
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 9 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, matched to "music theory" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $59.00 to $169.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction To Music Theory
Offered by Berklee College of Music
Learn key concepts and approaches needed to understand, create, and perform contemporary music.
$59.00listed price -
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Solfege at your fingertips 2
Offered by Université de Montréal
Music theory is often perceived as difficult to understand, and music theory as complex to learn. These courses aim to change this perspective by offering a dynamic method that links music theory to the sounds it represe...
$120.00listed price -
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Solfege at your fingertips 3
Offered by Université de Montréal
Music theory is often perceived as difficult to understand, and solfege is seen as a complex learning process. These courses aim to change this perspective by proposing a dynamic method that, from the start, associates m...
$120.00listed price -
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Solfege at your fingertips 1
Offered by Université de Montréal
Music theory is often perceived as difficult to understand, and music theory as complex to learn. These courses aim to change this perspective by offering a dynamic method that links music theory to the sounds it represe...
$120.00listed price -
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Solfege at your fingertips 4
Offered by Université de Montréal
Music theory is often perceived as difficult to understand, and solfege is seen as a complex learning process. These courses aim to change this perspective by proposing a dynamic method that, from the start, associates m...
$120.00listed price -
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Grabar y mezclar música
Offered by Berklee College of Music
Conoce y practica las técnicas y herramientas que necesita un productor musical para escribir y producir su propia música.
$59.00listed price -
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Music Technology Foundations
Offered by Adelaide University
Learn how to use creative music technology to make your own music and get a step closer to a career in music.
$169.00listed price -
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First Nights - Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of Opera
Offered by Harvard University
Learn about Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo , one of the first operas ever written.
$149.00listed price -
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First Nights - Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra
Offered by Harvard University
Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.
$149.00listed price
Best Music Theory Courses on edX compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Introduction To Music Theory | edX | Berklee College of Music | $59.00 | View → |
| 2 | Solfege at your fingertips 2 | edX | Université de Montréal | $120.00 | View → |
| 3 | Solfege at your fingertips 3 | edX | Université de Montréal | $120.00 | View → |
| 4 | Solfege at your fingertips 1 | edX | Université de Montréal | $120.00 | View → |
| 5 | Solfege at your fingertips 4 | edX | Université de Montréal | $120.00 | View → |
| 6 | Grabar y mezclar música | edX | Berklee College of Music | $59.00 | View → |
| 7 | Music Technology Foundations | edX | Adelaide University | $169.00 | View → |
| 8 | First Nights - Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of Opera | edX | Harvard University | $149.00 | View → |
| 9 | First Nights - Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra | edX | Harvard University | $149.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 9 priced courses on this page run from $59.00 to $169.00, with the middle of the range around $120.00 — a spread of $110.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from edX. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Berklee College of Music, Adelaide University and Harvard University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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