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1 Kamien: Music an Appreciation, 8 th Edition Multimedia Companion CD-ROM A Guide for Instructors Paper is marvelous technology. It is accessible, durable, and portable. It is, however, a silent and motionless medium. In contrast, the study of music is filled with sound and motion. The Multimedia Companion CD-ROM contains sound and motion activities to help students better understand the Kamien text and appreciate the music they are studying. This document will guide you through the many resources in the Kamien Multimedia Companion CD-ROM and provide suggestions for how you can use this valuable tool in your teaching. Figure 1 Opening Screen of the Multimedia Companion CD-ROM Getting Around the CD Insert the CD-ROM into your Macintosh or Windows computer. If the software does not autorun, double-click the Start_Here icon to begin. The software will display a licensing agreement the first time it is run on a given computer. Dismiss the licensing agreement to see the opening screen pictured in Figure 1. You can navigate among the pages using the links on the left side of the browser window. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 1 of 26

2 Speed Tip: If you have room on your hard drive, consider copying all the files from the CD-ROM into a single folder on your hard drive. Then use Internet Explorer 5.5 or later or Netscape 7 to open the file frames.htm found in the media folder and make a bookmark in your browser. Now you can demonstrate the CD-ROM at any time without the CD-ROM in the drive. The audio, animations, and video will load very quickly when all the files are stored on your hard drive. Overview Read through the INTRODUCTION to become familiar with the contents of the CD-ROM. Take a look at the HELP AND FAQ section to learn all about the system requirements and run the browser check program to make sure your Web browser is up-to-date and has the necessary plugins to use the CD-ROM. Notice that two of the menus, the ELEMENTS OF MUSIC and CONCERT-GOER S GUIDE, both end with an ellipse ( ). That indicates that these menus open up to show more options when you click them. When you click on any menu item, new content loads in the right frame of the Web browser. The upper right corner of the Web browser will always show the title of the current page. Figure 2 Elements Menu Speed Tip: The page title in the upper right corner of the top frame is more useful than you may realize. Click it anytime you wish to scroll back up to the top of the page you are viewing. ELEMENTS OF MUSIC The ELEMENTS OF MUSIC section contains subsections for sound, rhythm, melody, harmony, key, texture, form, and music notation. Each subsection ends with one or more quizzes of between 5 and 14 questions in length. At the beginning of each quiz, the student enters his or her full name. The quiz questions are unusual in that they provide detailed feedback to the students regarding why an answer is correct or incorrect. These quizzes are teaching tools and not mere drills or assessments. At the end of each quiz the student will see a Printer Friendly button. Students should click this button to view and print their quiz results. You may wish to require that students hand these in to you to make sure they are reviewing all the content in the Elements of Music section. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 2 of 26

3 Sound: Sound page 1 discusses the roles of sound and silence in our lives. The famous work 4'33", for any instrument or instruments, by the American avant-garde musician, John Cage is mentioned as one way to direct the listener s attention to the power of silence and reveal the often unnoticed sounds that exist all around us. Perhaps you might wish to begin one of your classes by standing at the lecture podium for a few minutes in complete silence. After a time, ask the class to discuss some of the things they heard during your performance and some of the thoughts that passed through their minds. Art of all kinds often uses the element of shared experience. This type of activity can foster a discussion about how sound and silence influences human emotion and behavior. Sound page 2 introduces the basic theory of sound. Students can click the play button to view a simple animation showing the impact of sound waves on the ear and mind of a listener. Notice the volume controller on the lower left side of this activity. You will see a similar volume controller on many of the activities. Just click the + and signs on the volume controller to change the volume. Figure 3 Sound Waves Activity Sound pages 3 through 5 introduce the concept of high and low in pitch. Students can click the play buttons on the animations to hear a familiar tune while the movements of a red notehead and arrow over notation show the contour of the melody. This animation can serve as a model for classroom activities on the topic of high and low pitch and melody contour. Teaching Idea: Play a phrase from a familiar tune like Twinkle, twinkle, little star and ask the class to use a piece of graphing paper to write the words and draw the melodic contour they hear. This activity actually mimics the early development of music notation where the contour of a melody was expressed as neumes over the text of a familiar chant. On Sound page 5, when the concept of intervals is introduced, you can use graphing paper and contour lines once again to help students understand relative distances among pitches. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 3 of 26

4 Figure 4 Highness and Lowness Activity Sound page 6 contains a solfege activity. Students can click the notes on the staff or keys on the on-screen keyboard to hear solfege syllables sung. For an even more interactive experience, students can play the notes by typing the number keys 1 8. This activity helps students relate notation to what they hear by associating the familiar (a voice singing a scale) with the unfamiliar (a keyboard and notes on a staff). Figure 5 Solfege Activity Sound page 7 presents the student with the first of many interactive keyboard animations. This one helps students understand intervals and scales. The C Major scale is shown in three colorcoded octaves and the animation plays the complete range while highlighting each white key. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 4 of 26

5 Figure 6 Keyboard Activity The next interactive animation is found on sound page 10. Students can click on any dynamic marking to change the volume of a short excerpt of a Bach cello suite. To experience gradual changes in volume the students can click and hold the mouse on the crescendo and decrescendo symbols. There are certainly musical distinctions between dynamics and volume. Most changes in dynamics, for example, also involve changes in articulation and tone quality on most instruments. Even so, a simple example like this can help bridge the gap between the familiar volume controls students use on their CD players and the unfamiliar terms and concept of dynamics in music. Figure 7 Dynamics Activity Sound pages 12 and 13 introduce the concept of tone color. On page 13 there is a tone color mixer to allow students to experiment with different combinations of synthesized tone colors. Each of the six audio files uses the same melody with the same timing and articulations. In this way the concept of tone color is learned in isolation from the many other qualities and nuances of expression typically heard in an instrumental performance. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 5 of 26

6 Figure 8 Tone Mixer Activity Teaching Idea: Combine the Tone Mixer Activity with classroom demonstrations of acoustic instruments or recordings of solo instrumental performances. Does the English Horn sound more like a horn or an oboe? Sound Quiz 1: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color This quiz has 14 questions and covers vocabulary and concepts related to sound. At the end of this and every quiz, students should click the Printer Friendly button to view and print a summary of their quiz results to hand in to you. Sound Quiz 2: Pitch Discrimination This quiz has 10 questions that drill the concepts of higher, lower, unison, and octave. For each question, the student clicks a speaker button to hear two tones. They must then identify the relationship of the second pitch to the first. Is it higher, lower, unison, or octave? Rhythm: Rhythm page 1 discusses the role of rhythm in our lives and relates rhythm to the natural cycles and pulsations of nature. Rhythm page 2 introduces the concept of beat and contains a fun, interactive animation to help students learn to perform a steady beat. Students can click the play button to see and hear the claves and then type the s key to play the rhythm sticks in time with the claves. Teaching Idea: The steady beat activity on Rhythm page 2 is one of many activities on this CD-ROM that promote active learning through aural and kinesthetic participation. Singing, listening, and moving in rhythm are fundamental to music learning at any age. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 6 of 26

7 Figure 9 Steady Beat Activity On Rhythm pages 3 and 4 the beat and groupings of the beat are shown graphically and in motion while students listen to the first 6 measures of My Country tis of thee. On page 4, for example, click the play button and count the beats as the tune is played. While students view this animation, point out the appearance of the arrow on the divisions of the beat. The graphics and animation help to illustrate the triple meter structure of the piece. On pages 5 and 6, similar activities illustrate duple, quadruple, and sextuple meter (compound duple). Figure 10 Triple Meter Activity Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 7 of 26

8 Teaching Idea: Distribute copies of the lyrics of a few familiar tunes in the public domain. Ask the students to create their own charts in a style similar to the ones on Rhythm pages 3 through 6. Students can present their charts to the class and use body movements to demonstrate their understanding of meter. Rhythm page 7 demonstrates accent and syncopation using an animation with sound. Figure 11 Syncopation Activity On Rhythm page 8 there is a tapping activity. This activity demonstrates common Italian tempo terms by relating them to something every college student understands (coffee). Students can click the play button to hear a song and tap the beat using the shift key. As the student taps the beat, the tempo marker indicates the student s tempo. Students can use the popup menu to select different tempos. Another way to use this activity is to click the stop button to turn off the sound then have the student tap in time with their heart beat of some other regular pulse heard in their environment. The idea here is to use this tool to help students develop a sensitivity to tempo and the vocabulary to describe it. Figure 12 Tempo Activity Rhythm Quiz: The rhythm quiz has 8 questions covering rhythm terms and concepts. There are also a few questions with audio examples to test how well students identify meter, accent, and syncopation. Melody: Melody page 1 introduces fundamental concepts of melody such as melodic line, curve, steps, and leaps. Page 2 discusses expression and phrasing in melody. On pages 3 and 4, a familiar Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 8 of 26

9 melody is illustrated with interactive animations that allow students to play the two phrases alone or in sequence. The measures highlight as the tune plays. Melody pages 5 through 8 contain similar activities to help students learn about melodic form, phrasing, and melodic sequences. Figure 13 Phrase Activity Melody Quiz: The melody quiz contains 10 questions that cover terms and concepts related to melody. Teaching Idea: Print the melodies found on Melody pages 4 through 7. Use a rote procedure to teach these simple melodies to the class. Distribute the printed melodies to your students along with transparency sheets and magic markers. Ask the students to draw a line on each transparency to connect the noteheads of the music notation. Take the transparencies to the projector and show them to the class. See if the class can recognize the melodies from their contours. Harmony: Harmony page 1 introduces the concepts of harmony and chord and includes an activity that allows students to easily compare two different harmonies applied to the same melody. Figure 14 Harmony Activity Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 9 of 26

10 Harmony page 4 describes the triad. An activity allows students to create many different triads, see them in notation, and hear them both melodically and harmonically. Figure 15 Triad Activity Teaching Idea: Distribute a worksheet showing the note names of the Tonic, Dominant, and Subdominant chords in C Major. Ask students to create triads using the Triad Activity on Harmony page 4 and the note groupings from your worksheet. Harmony page 5 introduces the all-important dominant-to-tonic progression. An activity allows students to view the solfege syllables and highlights the tones of each chord as the progression plays. Figure 16 Dominant-Tonic Activity Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 10 of 26

11 The activity on page 6 helps students understand how chords are made up of individual notes. The notes of a chord are played in the context of a melody and then played together as a chord. Students can view the chord as it appears in notation and on a piano keyboard. Figure 17 Broken Chord Activity Harmony page 7 contains an activity to demonstrate how harmony can bring even a somewhat static melody to life. Students can click the play button to hear a famous Chopin prelude. They can pause, rewind, fast forward, stop, and change volume. The animation highlights the measures and displays the measure numbers to help students study the harmony while they listen. Figure 18 Static Melody and Harmonization Activity Harmony Quiz: The harmony quiz contains 10 questions that cover concepts and terms related to harmony. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 11 of 26

12 Key: Key page 1 introduces the concept of central tone. An animation plays a familiar tune and stops just before the final tone. After the final tone is played, students are asked to consider the effect of the delayed resolution. Teaching Idea: Print and distribute copies of the tune found on Key page 1. Ask students to circle each example of the keynote found in the notation. Divide the class into two groups located on opposite sides of the room. Have one group sing only the keynote each time it appears in the tune. Have the other group sing all the other notes. After the class can perform the work successfully in this fashion, swap the groups to give everyone a chance to sing both parts. Key pages 2 through 7 introduce the major, minor, and chromatic scales and provide musical examples for students to study. The interactive scale activities allow students to play any of the three scales and then experiment with other tones found on the keyboard. Figure 19 Scale Activity Teaching Ideas: You may wish to click the keys of the on-screen keyboard to demonstrate other scales such as the harmonic minor or melodic minor, or modes such as dorian and mixolydian. Show students how to play the theme to Gilligan s Island using only the white keys on the keyboard and the notes in the dorian scale. On page 4, students can view and hear the score of Joshua won the battle of Jericho in c-minor. Ask students to use the on-screen keyboard on page 5 to try to play it in d-minor instead. Encourage a playful and creative atmosphere so students won t be embarrassed to make mistakes. Key Quiz: The key quiz contains 5 questions covering terms and concepts related to key. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 12 of 26

13 Texture: Pages 1 through 3 of Texture introduce the concepts of monophony, polyphony, and the round. An animation on page 3 demonstrates the round by highlighting the notation and pointing out the entrance of each voice. Figure 20 Round Activity Teaching Idea: Use a computer and projector to display Texture page 3 on a big screen in your classroom. Divide up the class into three groups and have them sing the round as the computer plays through the animation. Afterwards, sing some other familiar rounds to reinforce the concept. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 13 of 26

14 Homophonic texture is introduced on Texture page 4 with a similar animation. On page 6 you will find a texture lab. This activity is a fun way for students to understand texture from both a visual and aural perspective. Students can choose a texture then click the play button. The animation and use of color makes it easier for students to understand the three common textures in Western music. While working with the polyphonic texture, students can turn voices on and off using the check boxes. Figure 21 Texture Lab Activity Teaching Idea: Divide the class into small workgroups. Ask each workgroup to learn how to sing one of the three melodies from the Texture lab using a neutral syllable. Have each group perform in class with the computer providing the other two voices. Identify the best workgroups in the class and see if you can get them to perform the work in three-part harmony without help from the computer. Texture Quiz: The texture quiz contains 10 questions covering terms and concepts. Form: Form pages 1 through 4 introduce the concepts of repetition, contrast, and variation. On page 5 students can play the Dance of the Reed Pipes while the ABA form is illustrated with changing facial expressions and animated instruments. If you demonstrate this activity in a teaching setting, you may wish to narrate the facial expressions. In the A section a happy face appears as the light, airy music plays. When the English horn enters, the expression on the face become contemplative for a moment. The simple happy face returns when the airy music returns. The B section is more intense and the facial expressions reflect the new intensity. But when the A section of the Dance of Reed Pipes begins playing, a look of joyous recognition appears on the man s face. It is as though he were saying Oh yeah! I know that tune. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 14 of 26

15 Figure 22 ABA Form Activity On page 6, an animation uses facial expressions, gestures, and gender contrast to illustrate the different emotional states associated with the form of a Chopin prelude. Figure 23 ABB Form Activity Form Quiz: The form quiz contains 5 questions covering terms and concepts. Music Notation: The Music Notation subsection of the Elements section is new to this edition of the Kamien CD- ROM. Page 1 introduces notes, staves, and accidentals. On page 2 an interactive keyboard with notation and sound can be a great help to students new to music. Students can see and hear each pitch on the bass and treble staves by clicking keys on the keyboard. You can use this tool during presentations to illustrate pitches, intervals, and patterns students are learning to sing and recognize. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 15 of 26

16 Figure 24 Interactive Keyboard with Notation Activity Teaching Idea: Print and distribute copies of Home on the Range found on Melody page 6. Ask students to use the on-screen keyboard with notation from Music Notation page 2 to play the melody. Notating rhythm is covered on page 3. Stems and flags are introduced and an interactive animation helps students to relate rhythm notation to actual sound. Figure 25 Rhythm Notation Activity Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 16 of 26

17 On Music Notation page 4, dotted rhythms are illustrated with an animation that uses parody lyrics to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Learning the lyrics helps students to understand and feel the dotted rhythm patterns. This activity builds on a tradition in music education of using familiar words and phrases to teach rhythm patterns. Here are the lyrics. Mine eyes have seen the dotted rhythms written in the score. They are patterns long short long short long too forceful to ignore. Makes you feel like marching to the beat, short long short long short long. I m reading music now. Figure 26 Dotted Rhythm Activity with Parody Lyrics Ties are introduced on page 5 with an animation that plays and shows a tune with and without ties. The student can play each selection simply by clicking on it. Figure 27 Ties Activity Triplets are introduced on page 6 using lyrics that count the divisions of the beat. Figure 28 Triplet Activity The structure of a musical score is explained on page 7 and there is a link to view one page of a sample small ensemble score. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 17 of 26

18 Figure 29 A Sample Small Ensemble Score Music Notation Quiz: The music notation quiz contains 14 questions covering symbol identification, terms, and concepts. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS A new feature of the Kamien Multimedia Companion CD-ROM is the inclusion of video demonstrations of 28 common musical instruments. Each instrument is shown both in a still photograph and in a short video performance together with a short description of the instrument and its special features. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 18 of 26

19 Figure 30 Video Demonstrations of Common Musical Instruments Teaching Idea: You may wish to use the Musical Instruments section for a class presentation introducing the instruments found in bands and orchestras. Ask your college s band or orchestra director to identify students who might be willing to come to class and demonstrate their instruments. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: INSTRUMENT LAB Students also will enjoy playing the virtual instruments found in the instrument lab. Faculty may wish to direct the activities of students in the instrument lab to ask them to perform rhythmic patterns with the claves or play pitch patterns using the xylophone. For example, after listening to a recording of Latin American music, the students could try to recreate patterns they heard played on the guiro by playing the virtual guiro in the instrument lab. Here is an example of instructions you might create for your students. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 19 of 26

20 How to Play the Claves and Guiro Click the button to begin the Instrument lab. Type c to play the claves in any rhythm you like. Try the guiro by typing the letters g and h in the following pattern: g Long h Short h Short g Long h Long How to Play the Xylophone Now type the letter x to bring up the xylophone. Then play twinkle, twinkle little star using the numbers on the keyboard. Have some fun. Try to play other familiar tunes such as Mary had a little lamb or America. 1 Twin- 1 kle 5 Twin- 5 kle 6 Lit- 6 tle 5 Star 4 How 4 I 3 won- 3 der 2 what 2 you 1 are Figure 31 Instrument Lab Activity The Quiz on musical instruments uses samples from a performance of Britten s Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra. For decades, music teachers have played Benjamin Britten s Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra to introduce students to the most common instruments of the orchestra. In the quiz, students are asked to identify instruments by their sound. Faculty may wish to assign this quiz as a required activity for students. As in every quiz, a printed record of completion is available at the end of the quiz using the Printer Friendly button. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 20 of 26

21 ORCHESTRA GUIDE The Multimedia Companion CD-ROM contains an interactive version of Britten s Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra. Students may click on any section of the work to hear a particular instrument or group of instruments. The ORCHESTRA GUIDE presents these instruments in an orchestral context in contrast to the MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS section that presents all the instruments in solo performance without accompaniment. Together, the MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS and ORCHESTRA GUIDE provide a complete introduction to musical instruments for persons who are new to the study of music. Figure 32 Interactive Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra TIMELINES The Multimedia Companion CD-ROM contains six interactive charts to help students learn the chronology of music. Each chart contains information, images, and audio examples covering historical and cultural events, arts and letters, and the great people and events in music. Students and instructors will find the timelines useful for presentations and for study. To demonstrate the timelines to your class, you might wish to use the classical period. It is the shortest period in music history but contains some of the most recognizable names such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Click a speaker icon next to any composer name to hear a work of music. Click the name of a composer to read a short essay on the composer s life. Click the magnifying glass icon in the Arts and Letters section to view paintings from the period. Notice how the highlighting helps to Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 21 of 26

22 make relationships clear among the events listed in the three sections of the chart. It is easy to see, for example, that Beethoven was writing his Symphony No. 5 during the middle of the Napoleonic Wars in the same year as the publication of Goethe s Faust. Figure 33 Timeline of Western Music History: The Classical Period Teaching Idea: Have each student choose a popular artist and assign them to research the dates of their major compositions. Each student could then create a timeline based on the models provided on the CD-ROM. Students will learn the relationships among music, arts & letters, and historical events while researching the music of their favorite artists. LISTENING SOFTWARE The Kamien Interactive Listening Guides were created by Larry Worster using ChartCreator. The player software for ChartCreator, ChartPlayer, transforms your computer into an interactive listening station for the study of music. The software contains a "chart" for every listening outline in the Kamien textbook and coordinates with the audio CDs that ship with the full version of the Kamien text. Once you have installed it and placed the appropriate audio CD into your CD-ROM drive, you'll be able to navigate through each listening outline with ease, and the Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 22 of 26

23 music will be accompanied by a written narration that's coordinated to the music. No more confusing CD timings and tracks just click, listen, and read! ADDITIONAL RECORDINGS The CD-ROM provides 52 additional selections that are related to composers and works discussed in the Kamien textbook. In some cases, where the text only discusses one movement of a work, the CD-ROM includes the other movements. All the recordings are MP3 files that play using the QuickTime plugin in a small frame at the bottom of the Web browser window. You can control volume during playback by clicking on the speaker icon on the left side of the QuickTime controller to reveal the volume slider. Figure 34 QuickTime Controller Showing Volume Slider NEW HORIZONS IN MUSIC APPRECIATION This whimsical work by Peter Schickele makes the first movement of Beethoven s Symphony No. 5 more accessible by treating it as a sporting event with running commentary from a pair of sportscasters. The Multimedia Companion CD-ROM contains a complete version of this work as an MP3 file that plays using the QuickTime plugin in a small frame at the bottom of the Web browser window. CONCERT-GOER S GUIDE Music faculty often ask their students to attend a number of musical performances and write short reports about their experiences. This section of the CD-ROM contains essential information for students new to the concert hall including concert procedures, ensembles, etiquette, vocabulary, advice on how to read the program booklet, and a sample concert report. CAPSTONE ACTIVITIES These six activities require students to listen carefully and drag sections of music around to match what they hear. The purpose of these activities is to solidify the student s understanding of common musical forms. An easy example to demonstrate is the Rondo from Beethoven s String Quartet in C Minor seen in Figure 35. The rondo form, A B A C A B A is illustrated with text and notation. Students can click any section to hear and compare one section with another. For example, the four A sections are each slightly different. The student s task is to listen to the whole piece, listen carefully to each section, then click the play buttons to hear the sections and drag them to their correct locations. The Theme and Variations activity is extremely whimsical. Six different varieties of trout and a fisherman are used to illustrate the theme and six variations found in Schubert s Trout quintet. Schubert based this quintet on a song that tells a story of a trout s efforts to remain safe from the fisherman. Once again, the object is for the student to drag the play buttons to their correct positions to demonstrate an understanding of form. You and your students will enjoy the light- Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 23 of 26

24 hearted humor of this piece as it uses graphics and animation to help students visualize the theme and variations form. Figure 35 Capstone Activity: Rondo Figure 36 Capstone Activity: Theme and Variations Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 24 of 26

25 OPERA CLIPS The CD-ROM contains plot summaries and short video excerpts from three major operas. Each video clip has English subtitles and running analytical commentary. The clip from La Bohème also has notation graphics showing important themes. A DVD containing full-screen, broadcastquality performances of these same opera clips is available upon request from McGraw-Hill for use in classroom presentations. Figure 37 Opera clip showing subtitles and analytical commentary GLOSSARY The glossary is largely unchanged from the previous version of the Kamien CD-ROM. If you wish to demonstrate the glossary to your students, open the glossary window and click the letter F. Then explore the entry for flats. This is a typical glossary entry containing notation graphics and a short QuickTime audio clip to demonstrate the concept. ONLINE LEARNING CENTER The second to last menu item on the CD-ROM contains a link to the Online Learning Center for the Kamien Text. There you and your students will find additional learning resources such as flash cards, multiple choice quizzes, summaries, and links to Web resources. Some areas of the Online Learning Center are password protected for use only by registered instructors. To Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 25 of 26

26 register, contact your local McGraw-Hill sales representative to obtain a username and password. If you don t know your representative, you can locate them on the Web at CREDITS The final menu item on the CD-ROM links to a page of credits with the names of the singers and ensembles featured in the Opera clips. CONCLUSION The Multimedia Companion CD-ROM is designed to make study of music easier, more rewarding, and more fun. It contains material to help students understand basic concepts, test their knowledge, and listen more effectively. In combination with Roger Kamien s textbook, Music: An Appreciation, and its accompanying recordings, the Companion will help your students make the most out of your music appreciation course. We'd like to hear what you think about this resource. Send comments or suggestions to music@mcgraw-hill.com. Kamien CD-ROM Guide, Page 26 of 26

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