Sound Reasoning
subject: Sound
description: Sound Reasoning is designed to help you listen. This course encourages you to be self-reliant--to get up close to the music, without mediation or interference. Too often, listeners may feel that they need pre-concert lectures, program notes and other verbal explanations to fully appreciate a musical work. These certainly may enhance and supplement one's enjoyment. But, ideally, a musical performance is a direct conversation between performers and listeners. No matter what your knowledge or training, you should be able to enjoy music with the fullness of your thoughts, should be able to explore and interpret it with confidence. The fundamental premise of this course is that, if you listen attentively and think constructively about what you are hearing, your awareness will prosper and your direct connection to the music will thrive. The course assumes little or no prior musical background. The ability to read music is not required. A minimum of musical terminology will be invoked. When it is necessary, all terms are defined in a glossary easily accessible by hyper-link. Most importantly, musical examples are interpolated directly into the text, making it easy to evaluate all the concepts that are introduced. Music's sounds lack literal or fixed meanings: as such, the experience of a musical work is a very subjective one. This course will not teach what to think. It will show how to think, to arrive at your own balanced and carefully considered opinions. A subjective perspective is strongest when it is built upon objectively verifiable observations. You will learn to develop a concrete understanding of the music's progress. The poetry and conviction of your interpretation will grow out of this concentrated hearing. You will also have the confidence to test others' views against your own perceptions. Our musical awareness now stretches further back historically and wider geographically than ever before. It is important to be prepared for music both familiar and unfamili…
creator: Anthony Brandt
creator: Robert McClure
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Popular Music in Southeast Asia
subject: Music
description: From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the music was intrinsically bound up with modern life and the societal changes that came with it. Reaching new audiences across national borders, popular music of the period helped push social change, and at times served as a medium for expressions of social or political discontent.
creator: Bart Barendregt,
creator: Peter Keppy,
creator: Henk Schulte Nordholt
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Trxtbooks

The Basic Elements of Music
subject: Basic Elements of Music
creator: Catherine Schmidt-Jones
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Sound, Physics and Music
subject: Sound
subject: Physics
subject: Music
creator: Catherine Schmidt-Jones
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Music Inquiry
subject: Music
subject: Arts
description: An inquiry based approach to learning about music provides flexible lessons that deepen and broaden learners' understanding of music while engaging with their current musical interests, preferences, and goals. This hands-on experience with inquiry in a subject area that appeals to most learners also provides practice in selfdirected learning that can be applied in any area of life-long learning.
creator: Catherine Schmidt-Jones
publisher: Connexions, Rice University, Houston, Texas
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Understanding Basic Music Theory
subject: Music Theory
creator: Chaterina Schmit-Jones
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Music Appreciation: Its Language, History and Culture
subject: Music
creator: Douglas Cohen
creator: Emily Fairey
creator: Miriam Deutch
publisher: OpenStax-CNX
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Music and the Child
subject: Music
subject: Child
description: Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers, or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into children’s natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing, moving and experimenting with instruments. But how, you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I’m working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts? This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.
creator: Natalie Sarrazin
publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism
subject: Music
description: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson’s fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts
creator: Thomas Patteson
publisher: University of California Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Music Appreciation (Georgia Gwinnett College)
subject: Music
description: "The author of this text has intentionally kept it general in nature in order to create a platform for those who want to expand content into more in depth studies of the mentioned concepts and traditions. I believe that appreciation of any subject comes from open-minded exposure to that topic. With the arts this generally must happen at a moment when the message and meaning of the work resonates naturally with the appreciator. Each instructor of music appreciation brings a unique expertise in differing genres. I encourage you to utilize this text along with musical examples of your choice. The music appreciation specific goals (found in the syllabus) vary between individual classes as the instructors see fit. These goals will be achieved by those who have competently met all of the requirements of the course. For the course that this text accompanies the goals for each student are: To gain basic exposure to the elements of music and their treatment in music To learn historical and cultural signifiers in a diverse body of music • To approach listening to music actively/analytically and to reflect on the experience To understand the factors that contribute to musical style in their own music and music presented in the course To gain knowledge about differing musical aesthetics and trends To become more knowledgeable and sensitive to varied human expression through music If we endeavor together to reach these course goals the successful student will be able to: Describe elements of music that s/he hears, employing correct musical terminology Place music into an appropriate historical and cultural context Listen critically and discuss a wide variety of musical styles Analyze the stylistic features of a diverse group of musical styles Identify nationalistic tendencies in musical expression Identify musical diversity and aspects of our global society"
creator: Todd Mueller
creator: Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment
creator: Catherine Kilroe-Smith
creator: Irina Escalante-Chernova
creator: Marc Gilley
publisher: University System of Georgia
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks