Introduction to Musical Concepts

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From the Classroom

• Practice Material for the Final Exam
• Syllabus (PDF file)
• How to Login to WebCT
• Intelligent Listening, the Full Checklist (PDF file) and Full Practice Checklist
• Music Notation (material about the written language of music)
• Note Tester (with all the notes on the original pitch notation handout)
• Time Signature Tester (with 4, 8 or 16 as bottom numbers)
• Looking at Form
• Analyzing a Melody
• Editing in Audacity [new window]
• More on Texture
• Questionnaire

For Your Ears

• Music Player: Music from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries
• Music Player: Music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque eras
• Music Player: How It All Started - Music from the 50s
• Music Player: The music of Aaron Copland (1900-90) (How many do you recognize?)
• Music Player: Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 15 in C (More, Interactive Version [requires Shockwave] ) (as mentioned in class, this is the correct name, not Sonata No. 1 as listed on top of the music)
• Flash Movie: the first page of Mozart's sonata (the music for the page you received in class)
• Audio Lesson on Analyzing a Melody. Podcast | MP3 version. [Experimental. Work-in-progress]
• Music Player: with the two songs used to review for your Intelligent Listening paper. Completed example Checklist for the Clapton record. Note: because we are discussing the Beatles and Clapton records in class, you can not use either one for your checklist paper

Textbook Links

• Course Textbook
• Enjoyment of Music Online Tutor
• Materials of Music
• Enjoyment of Music Glossary

Free Software +

• Get ACID XPress (free version of ACID for PC. MAC users, you have Garage Band)
• ACIDPlanet (listen to what others are doing with ACID)
• Use this search to find free ACID loops to download
• Audacity (audio editing software for PC and MAC)

Interesting Links

• Some places for you to visit on the Web