OnMusic Appreciation
4th Edition
A digital textbook for an online, face-to-face, or hybrid Music Appreciation course. Instructors never pay and can request a free reviewer account and view all our courses without any commitment for 60-days!
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OnMusic Appreciation is a digital music appreciation textbook solution for an online or face-to-face music appreciation course that fits in with and complements existing teaching and learning workflows. All course elements are integrated and easy-to-use.
Intended to develop critical listening skills and a deeper understanding of the elemental and structural nature of music, OnMusic Appreciation is a digital music appreciation textbook that explores how music is made, and how music has developed as an art form woven into the rich context of history. Designed for the non-music major, this title covers a wide variety of musical styles and genres, fostering attentive, intelligent listening with more than 36 hours of music.
Integrated Resources
Academically rigorous, yet accessible and engaging, OnMusic Appreciation is a complete music appreciation textbook and gives you the most music for your online, hybrid, or face-to-face music course. Everything you need for your course is included. No downloads or extra resources are necessary.
Over 400 complete pieces of music streamed right out of the pages. 
Videos in every chapter reinforce student understanding and engagement. Our video applet keeps students on the page and on task.
Only OnMusic titles offer integrated access to the Online Music Dictionary. This rich resource and C4E exclusive provides definitions, pronunciations, images, audio and much more.
Our listening guides are highly interactive and easy to understand. Like everything else in OnMusic Appreciation, they are fully integrated, making for an uninterrupted, logical, and focused student experience.
Our online music appreciation textbook contains a comprehensive set of auto-graded quizzes and tests with test banks and anti-cheating measures built in. All testing is fully integrated and flows naturally from the text.
The text includes complete sets of interactive maps of the historical, geographical, and musical perspectives of composers and their works.
The text contains composer profiles, including text, graphic, and musical information on pages where composers or their works are discussed.OnMusic Appreciation Versions
We offer three different versions of OnMusic Appreciation:
Contemporary is a high school version that helps students appreciate music as a power to evoke deep primordial feelings of our shared human experience.
Standard provides the tools for a basic understanding of music. It give students the necessary background to understand what is going on technically when you are listening to music.
Extended concentrates on a) The development of an attentive style of listening, b) The introduction and systematic study of the building blocks of music, and c) Enhancing awareness of the main musical styles of selected western and non-western cultures.
Each course has instructor PowerPoints that can be downloaded and used in the classroom.
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