TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 1: Basic Musical Concepts
Class 1: Unity and Variety
Class 2: The Performer's Role
Class 3: Structure of Music
Class 4: Can Music Have A Specific Purpose?
Class 5: Types of Listeners
Class 6: Folk Music, Art Music, and All That Jazz
Section 2: The Building Blocks of Sound
Class 7: Duration and Pitch
Class 8: Pitch Names
Class 9: Pitch Notation and Intervals
Class 10: Volume
Class 11: Instrumental Timbre
Class 12: Vocal Timbre
Class 13: Orchestral Timbres
Class 14: Strings
Class 15: Woodwinds
Class 16: Brass
Class 17: Percussion
Class 18: Keyboard Instruments
Class 19: Organ
Class 20: Synthesizer
Class 21: MIDTERM EXAM
Section 3: The Organizing Elements of Music
Class 22: Rhythm, Tempo, and Meter
Class 23: Rhythm, Tempo, and Meter
Class 24: Melody I
Class 25: Melody II
Class 26: Harmony
Class 27: Texture
Class 28: Form
Section 4: Historical Periods
Class 29: Medieval Period: Introduction
Class 30: Medieval Sacred and Secular Music
Class 31: Renaissance Period: Introduction
Class 32: Renaissance Sacred and Secular Music
Class 33: Baroque Period: Introduction
Class 34: Baroque Period: Introduction to Church Music
Class 35: Classical Period: Introduction
Class 36: Hadyn, Mozart, and Beethoven
Class 37: Romantic Period: Introduction
Class 38: Romantic Composers
Class 39: Contemporary Period: Introduction
Class 40: Europe, The United States, and Latin America
Class 41: FINAL EXAM
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OnMusic Appreciation is a digital music appreciation textbook solution for an online or face-to-face music appreciation course that fits in with and complements existing teaching and learning workflows. All course elements are integrated and easy-to-use.
Intended to develop critical listening skills and a deeper understanding of the elemental and structural nature of music, OnMusic Appreciation is a digital music appreciation textbook that explores how music is made, and how music has developed as an art form woven into the rich context of history. Designed for the non-music major, this title covers a wide variety of musical styles and genres, fostering attentive, intelligent listening with more than 36 hours of music.
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Academically rigorous, yet accessible and engaging, OnMusic Appreciation is a complete music appreciation textbook, and gives you the most music for your online, hybrid, or face-to-face music course. Everything you need for your course is included. No downloads or extra resources necessary.
Music – Contains over 400 complete pieces – streaming right out of the pages. No other textbook (at any price) includes more music, and no other publisher has better implementation.
Music Forever – Your students can download and keep all the music from our Music Appreciation title – over 36 hours. It is a solid library of masterworks that they can return to again and again, and it can become a gateway to further discovery.
Online Music Dictionary –
Only OnMusic titles offer integrated access to the Online Music Dictionary. This rich resource and C4E exclusive provides definitions, pronunciations, images, audio and much more.
Discover Video – Videos in every chapter reinforce student understanding and engagement. Our video applet keeps students on the page and on task.
Graphical Listening Guides - – Our listening guides are highly interactive and easy to understand. Like everything else in OnMusic Appreciation, they are fully integrated, making for an uninterrupted, logical, and focused student experience.
Artist Profiles – Information on performers, writers, and other important artists
Graphical Listening Guides – Our listening guides are highly interactive and easy to understand. Like everything else in OnMusic Appreciation, they are fully integrated, making for an uninterrupted, logical, and focused student experience. See the complete list of listening guides.
Tests & Quizzes - – Our online music appreciation textbook contains a comprehensive set of auto-graded quizzes and tests with test banks and anti-cheating measures built in. All testing is fully integrated and flows naturally from the text.
Interactive Period Maps – The text includes complete sets of interactive maps of the historical, geographical, and musical perspectives of composers and their works.
Meet the Composer – The text contains composer profiles, including text, graphic, and musical information on pages where composers or their works are discussed.
OnMusic Appreciation Fourth Edition Access Code
ISBN: 978-0-9965838-5-5
