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Jan 20 — Welcome to Spring 2016. Let's hope it's a good semester.
Feb 15 — This week Tuesday is Monday. No class today, instead we'll meet tomorrow (Tuesday).
Mar 2 — According to the syllabus, the first Intelligent Listening Checklist Assignment is due today. As discussed in class, let's wait until we return from break to complete and submit the assignment.
Mar 16 — As mentioned last class, the first Intelligent Listening Checklist Assignment is due Wednesday, March 23. There will be no late penality if submitted by March 28.
Welcome to MUS 1P on the Web
From the Classroom
- Course Syllabus
- Instructions for Using StudySpace
- Practice Material for Quiz 3 NEW
- Notes on Intelligent Listening
- Full Intelligent Listening Checklist
- Current Intelligent Listening Checklist
- Full Online Practice Checklist UPDATED 4/12/16
- Looking at Form (requires Flash)
- Looking at Form 2 (Flash not required)
- Note Tester
- Time Signature Tester
(with 4, 8 and 16 as possible bottom numbers)
Textbook Links
- Course Textbook
- Enjoyment of Music StudySpace (login required)
To listen to the music featured in a chapter you're reading, click the Playlist link found in the Study Guide for that chapter. Links to the various Listening Guides can be found in these playlists as well - look for the "Launch iLG" link. Note: you won't find Listening Guides in every chapter. - Norton GradeBook (login required)
- Enjoyment of Music Glossary (login required)
For Your Ears – and Eyes too (IOS compatible except where noted)
- Music Player — The music of Aaron Copland (1900-90) (How many do you recognize?)
- Music Player — Music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque eras
- Music Player — Music from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries
- Music Player — Music from the 50s (How it all started)
- Videos - a follow-up to our discussion of meter in music
Count along as you watch.- Star Spangled Banner. Triple meter (1-2-3)
Traditional, U.S. Marine Band - Star Spangled Banner. Quadruple meter (1-2-3-4).
Whitney Houston and the Florida Orchestra, Super Bowl, 1992 - Theme from Mission: Impossible. Quintuple meter (1-2-3-4-5)
Original TV show, 1966 - Theme from Mission: Impossible. Quadruple meter (1-2-3-4)
Members of U2. Movie, 1996. Listen closely - it doesn't start with a 4 beat pattern. What is the meter at the start? Where does it change to the 4 beat pattern?
- Star Spangled Banner. Triple meter (1-2-3)
- Video: A very interesting video of J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor NEW
An example of Baroque Era music. More on "Toccata" (Baroque Toccata). More on "Fugue". - Video: Another Fugue from J.S. Bach - Fugue 20 in A minor, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 865 NEW. An example of Baroque Age music. Listen (and watch) as the different parts enter, each a separate independent voice.
- Video: Handel's Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah. NEW
An example of Baroque Age music. - For Your Intelligent Listening Assignment. Completed example checklist for Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven. There is a link on the page to listen to the song as you read the analysis. Note: because we will study the Clapton record in class, you can not use it for your checklist assignments NEW
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)
Links of Interest
- Some places for you to visit on the Web