Welcome to MUS 1P on the Web
[New links are in bold]
From the Classroom
- Practice Material for the Final Exam
- Syllabus (PDF file)
- 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
- More on Texture
For Your Ears
- How to Login to WebCT
- Music Player (with music from the 18th, 19th and 20 centuries)
- Original Music Player (with music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque eras)
- How It All Started (Music from the 50s)
("Rock around the Clock" was the first Rock 'n' Roll record to hit #1 on the Billboard charts.
However, it's not the first Rock 'n' Roll record. There are other records that can make that claim) - The music of Aaron Copland (1900-90) (How many do you recognize?)
Textbook Links
Acid Links
- Get ACID XPress (free version of ACID)
- ACIDPlanet (listen to what others are doing with the program)
- Use this search to find free Acid loops to download
Interesting Links
- Some places for you to visit on the Web
In order to hear the music examples on these pages you need the Flash Player and RealONEPlayer plug-ins installed in your browser. All are free. Click the above links or icons to get them. (For RealONEPlayer, look for the link to the free version.)
Also needed is the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in.
Please note: Some pages mention the Beatnik browser plug-in. This plug-in is not available at this time.
...On the Side
April 17, 2006
• Review material for the final is online. The required reading material list is included in a table on that page. E-mail me if you have a question
• Here is a Music Player with the two songs we're using to review for your Intelligent Listening paper. Here's a 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
• Here's more on how to do two of the observations in the Melody section of the Checklist
[JM]