Musical Explorations: Fundamentals through Experience

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Preface
To the Instructor
Text Outline
Active Learning
Using Classroom Instruments
The Barred Instruments
The Soprano Recorder
Fingering Sequence
Acknowledgements
To the Student
About the Author
Chapter One
Musical Essentials: Building Blocks
? Introduction
? Music and Its Meaning
? The Parameters of Sound
? The Elements of Music
? Learning to Listen
? Graphic Notation
Chapter Two
Rhythm: Feeling the Beat
? The Beat
? Tempo
? Notes and Rests
? Rhythmic Counting
Chapter Three
Rhythm: Keeping the Beat
? Meter
? Ostinato and Polyrhythm
? Dotted Rhythms
? Time Signature
? Syncopation and Backbeat
? Composing Rhythms
Chapter Four
Melody: The Sound of Music
? Treble Clef Pitches
? Bass Clef Pitches
? Pitch and the Piano Keyboard
? Accidentals
Chapter Five
Melody: Melodies and More
? Major and Minor Scales
? Chromatic Scales
? Key Signatures
? The Circle of Fifths
? Three Types of Minor Scales
? Melodic Key Identification
? Solfege
Chapter Six
Harmony and Texture: Unified Sounds
? Four Musical Textures
? Musical Intervals
? Intervals in Major Scales
? Altered Intervals
? Inverted Intervals
? Aural Recognition of Intervals
? Chords
? Chord Positions and Inversions
? Functional Harmony
Chapter Seven
Timbre, Dynamics, and Form: The Expressive Elements of Music
? Instrumental Timbres
? Vocal Timbres
? Keyboard Timbres
? Dynamic Factors
? Measuring, Indicating, and Expressing Dynamics
? The Form of Music
? Repetition in Music
Chapter Eight
Genre and Style in Music History
? Music in History
? Antiquity and The Middle Ages
? The Renaissance
? The Baroque Age
? The Classical Period
? The Romantic Era
? The Twentieth Century
Chapter Nine
World Music
? Music Around the World
? The Americas
? Cultural Focus: United States
? Cultural Focus: Argentina
? Europe
? Cultural Focus: Ireland
? Cultural Focus: Hungary
? Africa
? Cultural Focus: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
? Cultural Focus: Egypt
? Asia
? Cultural Focus: China
? Cultural Focus: Turkey
? Australia and Oceania
? Cultural Focus: Australia
? Cultural Focus: Solomon Islands
Glossary/Index of Key Terms and Concepts
Online Multimedia Guidelines
? Sequential Listing of Music Listening Selections
? Video Guidelines
References
Resources: Making More Music
? The Piano Keyboard
? Guidelines for Keyboard Playing
? Practice Keyboard
? Virtual Instruments
? The Soprano Recorder
? Guidelines for Recorder Playing
? Recorder Fingering Chart
? Recorder Music
? Folk Songs
? Online Music Theory Resources
? Blank Staff Paper

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Musical Explorations: Fundamentals through Experience is a music fundamentals text with a fundamental difference; it offers an innovative approach to the rudiments of music theory from an experiential and interactive perspective.

This text is written for both general survey courses and rudimentary music theory classes. It presents fundamental terms and concepts with suggestions for engaging and interactive classroom activities, designed to have students learn the fundamentals of music through experience.

Containing over one hundred explorations as interactive activities, guided listening experiences, exercises, and assignments, this text offers ample opportunities for students to participate in exploring music. Students also study the fundamental concepts of music theory and traditional Western notation, which could precede more in-depth study of music theory and history. In addition, this text makes historical and global connections to the traditional elements of music, fostering interdisciplinary and international education.

Each chapter contains examples, exercises, activities, and assignments, as well as learning objectives, a summary, and an indexed list of key terms and concepts. For classroom discussion or homework, review questions provide engaging opportunities for students to think critically about the questions and, more importantly, about music itself.

Although the rudiments of music theory are explained in many print and online resources, the experience of music is not. For the first time, this book offers interactive, interdisciplinary, and international pathways to explore the fundamentals of music in one concise text using applied learning as an active, hands-on approach.

Musical Explorations:

Includes a four-month access to Rhapsody, an online music listening service, which accompanies textbook playlists and gives the ability for students or instructors to create their own from over ten million titles
Can be used in general survey courses for non-music majors and traditional rudiments courses for beginning music majors
Begins with an overview of the study of music, followed by dedicated chapters to the seven elements of music (rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, dynamics, form, and texture)
Contains explanations of important terms/concepts and activities to guide student experiences with the musical element discussed
Provides additional online resources including video reviews and web-based music theory trainer

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