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Music 101: A Guide to Active Listening for a Generation Online

Author(s): James E Shearer, Fred Bugbee

Music 101: A Guide to Active Listening for a Generation Online presents a balance of commentary, historical documentation, and insightful listening guides into the diverse world of classical, jazz, and world music. Music 101 is a highly readable text that offers students a lifelong guide into all fo...

Exploring the Nature of Creativity

Author(s): Jon Michael Fox, Ronni Lea Fox

Exploring the Nature of Creativity provides an introduction to creativity for the curious, the uninitiated, the students of beginning classes, and all other interested persons beginning their inquiry into the field of creativity research. Conversational knowledge is not easily gleaned from formal re...

Passage to Music Literacy: Syllabus for Aural Skills

Author(s): Gene J Cho, Laila K O Sullivan

Passage to Music Literacy is an inspirational and imperative pedagogical resource for all instructors assigned the responsibility for teaching any portion of a traditional four-semester aural skills sequence. Starting from the most basic diatonic principles and continuing through posttonal practice,...

Conversing in Art: Learning the Language of the Visual Arts

Author(s): CAROL ECKERT

Revised 1st Edition Now Available! Comprehensive and concise introductory level art text. Conversing in Art: Learning the Language of the Visual Arts represents a starting point to help students facilitate conversations about the world of art. This text covers topics from the basics of form, t...

Exploring the World of Music

Author(s): Educational Film Center

Exploring the World of Music by Dorothea E. Hast, James R. Cowdery, and Stan Scott gives back to music the instrumental, ethnic, historical, geographical, and social contexts that are too often lost in sound recordings alone. The world is full of many kinds of music, each embodying different cultura...

Essential Piano Techniques: A Guide to Practice and Performance

Author(s): Polli Chambers-Salazar

Essential Piano Techniques: A Guide to Practice and Performance focuses on developing the skills essential to a successful pianist: one’s physical approach to the instrument; effective practice techniques; tools for mastering sight reading; and a thorough approach to memorization. It acts as a s...