Welcome to MUS 1 on the Web
From the Classroom
- Review Material for Quiz on January 12
- Syllabus (PDF file)
- Intelligent Listening
- Full Intelligent Listening Checklist
- Full Practice Checlkist
- 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
- Music Notation (material about the written language of music)
- Analyzing a Melody
- More on Texture
- More about Rhythm
For Your Ears
- Music Player: Music from the 50s (How it all started)
- 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: Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 15 in C
- Flash Movie: the first page of Mozart's sonata (the music for the page you received in class)
- 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 assignment
Textbook Links
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