OnMusic Explorations
A digital textbook for an online, face-to-face, or hybrid OnMusic Exploration 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 Explorations is the first step in your students’ journey to explore and hopefully start to untangle the mysterious power that music has on billions of people world-wide every day.
Beginning with a broad introduction to basic music concepts and organizing elements, OnMusic Explorations helps your students dig deeper into the musical components so they can become more perceptive listeners. With this foundation in place, the text shifts focus onto exploring the panorama of music genres from America, Europe, Africa, Japan, and Latin America.
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Discussion Questions Each section includes interactive discussion questions to encourage student engagement and peer interaction.
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With an extensive selection of world music, every lesson in this course contains streaming music.
Videos in every chapter reinforce student understanding and engagement. Our video applet keeps students on the page and on task.
Our listening guides are highly interactive and easy to understand. Like everything else in OnMusic Exploration, they are fully integrated, making for an uninterrupted, logical, and focused student experience.
Text is narrated for online listening.