tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/musicOpen Textbook Library - Music Textbooks2024-03-17T02:37:36Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png16272024-03-17T02:56:51Z2024-03-18T16:57:08ZUnlocking the Digital Age: The Musician's Guide to Research, Copyright, and Publishing<img alt="Read more about Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician's Guide to Research, Copyright, and Publishing" title="Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician's Guide to Research, Copyright, and Publishing cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="457" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTEzNDUsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--97e6c588041f4da065b04b29e5300c83d8c93894/OER_Cover_PDF-1-350x457.png" />Based on coursework developed at the Peabody Conservatory, this book serves as a crucial resource for early career musicians navigating the complexities of the digital era. This guide bridges the gap between creative practice and scholarly research, empowering musicians to confidently share and protect their work as they expand their performing lives beyond the concert stage as citizen artists. It offers a plain language resource that helps early career musicians see where creative practice and creative research intersect and how to traverse information systems to share their work. As professional musicians and researchers, the authors’ experiences on stage and in academia makes this guide an indispensable tool for musicians aiming to thrive in the digital landscape.12092023-08-31T23:31:26Z2023-08-31T23:31:26ZComprehensive Musicianship, A Practical Resource<img alt="Read more about Comprehensive Musicianship, A Practical Resource" title="Comprehensive Musicianship, A Practical Resource cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTQ4NiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--cef2529f531aa81f99ddbc3f8441bef9267b39f2/CompMusic_Cover1-350x453.png" />This OER presents an integrated suite of learning resources developed for the core music theory and musicianship curriculum at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music. It provides a more comprehensive symbiosis of musicianship and music theory learning than can be found in existing textbooks, including engaging and progressive video demonstrations and interactive listening and vocal exercises that integrate musical knowledge with foundational musical skills.14472023-08-07T01:31:31Z2023-08-07T01:31:31ZTheory Fundamentals Workbook<img alt="Read more about Theory Fundamentals Workbook" title="Theory Fundamentals Workbook cover image" class="cover " width="606" height="782" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTIzOCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7c239168bc7a6229751a0c090a7d64fc7796da7f/Screenshot%202023-08-06%20at%208.24.18%20PM.png" />This workbook is a practical method for learning the rudiments of music, which are essential to a thorough understanding of music in general. Designed as a supplement to professional instruction rather than a manual for self instruction, the text is intentionally brief. The emphasis is on using practical exercises to develop fluency. Aural, vocal, and keyboard skills must be integrated into the study of music theory from the very beginning. I encourage all students, regardless of their principal instrument, to learn to hear, sing, and play on the piano everything that they do in theory. All exercises in this book should be completed thoroughly. Usually a sample will be completed in brackets for each exercise, as a demonstration. Fluency with these basic materials of music will be a great asset to any further musical endeavors. For students who need additional exercises, suggestions for further study will be given.14462023-07-25T03:37:40Z2023-07-25T03:38:57ZFoundations of Aural Skills<img alt="Read more about Foundations of Aural Skills" title="Foundations of Aural Skills cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="1024" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Nzg3MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--708e6cd4c8b11efd55723ea4b95468c73c2b128e/Foundations-of-Aural-Skills-OER-Book-Cover1024_1.png" />Foundations of Aural Skills is a research-based, accessible, relevant, creative, inclusive, empowering textbook for teaching introductory aural skills. The first seven chapters provide thorough instruction in aural fundamentals, allowing students to build their foundations from a variety of starting points. The following chapters address the traditional tasks of sight-reading and dictation, but also improvisation, mimicking music you hear (“playback”), transcription, and ensemble skills. The final two chapters add some basic form- and chord-listening skills. Every section includes creative activities that learners can try out on their own or do in class. Embedded playlists for practicing listening skills include a diverse range of music that will connect with students’ preferences and allow them to experience music they haven’t worked with before. While the text is primarily designed for a first semester or year of instruction, it also includes some instruction on modulation, chromaticism, and mixed meter, and future additions/development will make these advanced applications more robust.14362023-06-02T16:56:03Z2023-06-02T16:56:03ZPay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why<img alt="Read more about Pay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why" title="Pay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why cover image" class="cover " width="693" height="1024" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzAzMCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--c6f5b0398861a7827b8f2ed3fc91e679e4139ec3/Pay-for-Play-Cover-1-693x1024.png" />The history of music is closely linked to the history of copyright law. This book explores how the law shaped music and the music industry. From church and court patronage in pre-19th Century Europe, to the effects of social media on music, this book explores the abiding influence of the law on music.13192023-05-01T14:54:19Z2024-01-22T19:20:49ZOriginal Études for the Developing Conductor<img alt="Read more about Original Études for the Developing Conductor" title="Original Études for the Developing Conductor cover image" class="cover " width="327" height="426" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDY0NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--71b325429db8a6816704596b35d8a6f031dcc9a3/Cover-Etudes-thumbnail.png" />Original Études for the Developing Conductor is a collection of supplemental études designed to enhance contemporary conducting pedagogy by amplifying the voices of composers from historically excluded groups. Each étude was commissioned from and composed by a living composer, the majority of whom are woman-identifying composers and/or composers of color. Each étude also addresses multiple specific pedagogical goals common to all conducting classrooms. Conducting textbooks commonly include musical examples to expose student conductors to various musical challenges and situations. However, due to the relative ease of using only music from the public domain, most examples found in commercially published books are excerpts of larger works composed by deceased cisgender white men of European descent. Often, this music bears little relation to a significant portion of the music contemporary students engage with and perform. These excerpts also tend to be quite short (i.e., less than a minute) and do not create cohesive, self-contained musical arcs. Instructors adopting or reviewing this text are encouraged to record their use on this form: https://bit.ly/original-etudes-interest. This helps the book's sponsors to understand this open textbook's impact. This project was made possible in part by financial support from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech Collaborative Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro University Libraries’ Textbook Affordability Program (TAP) Grants, and additional funding, technical, and publishing support from the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.13432023-02-16T15:35:50Z2024-01-22T14:52:40ZMusic Appreciation: History, Culture, and Context<img alt="Read more about Music Appreciation: History, Culture, and Context" title="Music Appreciation: History, Culture, and Context cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDU0NSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e4ceed4bc51931bd4f5adef74386a46ad2fc84d8/19-350x525.png" />Music makes us human. Every culture on earth has music. In fact, every human society extending back into prehistoric times has had music. Most of us are surrounded by music. We use it to enhance our mood and to regulate our metabolism, to keep us awake and help us go to sleep, as background to accompany the work, study, exercise, and relaxation that fills our days. But it is precisely when music steps out of this background and asks for our attention, engages our memory and our expectations, that it becomes a fundamentally artistic endeavor. Music is a sonic response to a question that’s not really about sound at all, but rather is historical and social. The study of music is the study of human thought, experience, and history. This course is about the musical imagination. It’s how to think about music, but it’s also about music as a mode of thinking. (inspired by Michael Hays, Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design: Welcome to The Architectural Imagination (edx.org). This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. This project features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks technology partner, and workforce representatives. It will enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials will be released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others.The target audience for this project and this textbook are dual enrollment students. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. A dual enrollment student receives credit on both their high school and college transcripts for the same course.10192023-02-06T18:26:49Z2023-08-31T14:10:20ZThe Bible and Music<img alt="Read more about The Bible and Music" title="The Bible and Music cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="530" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDUwMSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--d7303c4f3e5005bcd013f2f047fd0d12533bc2bc/The%20Bible%20and%20Music.png" />The Bible and Music by Dr. James F. McGrath provides an introduction and overview of the various ways that music and the Bible have been and continue to be connected. Part 1 focuses on history, presenting what we know about how music in the Ancient Near East sounded, how markings in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible have been interpreted as musical symbols, how chanting of biblical texts has featured liturgically in synagogues and churches, the impact of the Protestant Reformation, and musical developments in North America as enslaved Africans encountered biblical texts and stories. Part 2 focuses on specific texts in Jewish and Christian scripture and looks at how they have been interpreted through the process of setting them to music, including the soundtracks of cinematic depictions of biblical narrative and allusions to the Bible in popular music. Part 3 focuses on composers from the Middle Ages all the way down to the present day. Throughout the book, musical examples are not merely mentioned but embedded so that reading and listening may be seamlessly combined. The book does not presume prior knowledge of either music or the Bible, and additional links within the text provide definitions and further explanations for those who need or desire them.12932022-12-06T21:38:57Z2024-03-11T13:29:08ZFoundational Sight Singing<img alt="Read more about Foundational Sight Singing" title="Foundational Sight Singing cover image" class="cover " width="1420" height="1826" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDM0NiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--6010f26824347ab8896331baed6849eab8e55bbe/stewart%20cover%20image.jpg" />Sight reading music can be a daunting endeavor for aspiring, and even experienced, musicians. Foundational Sight Singing was created to provide a systematic approach to learn to read, hear and perform music. The ordered presentation of both melodies and rhythms in this text helps students develop accuracy and fluency in sight singing which is a fundamental skill for all musicians. It is a text for developing proficiency in reading and sight singing that can be used in a variety of contexts from individual practice to choral or instrumental ensemble rehearsals to college ear training courses. Multiple exercises are provided for drilling and practice at each level throughout the text to grow the students’ fluency and proficiency in reading and performing pitch and rhythm. This text will help students build a solid foundation upon which they can establish mastery.10672021-09-20T05:24:20Z2024-01-22T14:52:27ZMusic in World Cultures<img alt="Read more about Music in World Cultures" title="Music in World Cultures cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mjg3NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--02fd13f9c254c94984a86ae4c1dd1d0c139eaca0/mwc-350x453.jpg" />This text provides just a small sampling of some of the various musical styles and traditions that might be found, though the skills developed in this course can be applied to any type of music.
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