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| PROJECT NUMBER: 03 |
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INSTRUCTOR(S):
Alberto Bird , Emmanuel Diaz, Hostos C.C., CUNY, Miguel Garrido, Brandeis High School
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TITLE:
Music Appreciation
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Creation of interactive listening guides to enhance a Hybrid Music Appreciation Course, and developing an authoring tool (Listening Guide Creator) to author the abovementioned listening guides. |
DISCIPLINE:
Music
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SUBJECT AREA:
Music Appreciation |
GRADE-LEVEL:
Undergraduate |
INSTRUCTIONAL
GOAL: (competency that students should be able to demonstrate
upon completion
of the entire unit)
Develop the ability to listen to musical compositions with insight and appreciation of their structural, stylistic, and expressive components.
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PERFORMANCE
OBJECTIVE: (use an action verb in a description of a measurable
outcome)
Discern and appreciate elements of music such as dynamics, timbre, texture, and form, while listening to musical compositions, and understand these elements in the context of musical expression.
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RATIONALE:
(brief justification -- why you feel the students need to
learn this topic)
Using interactive listening guides greatly enhances the students’ ability to follow and appreciate extended musical compositions.
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LESSON
CONTENT: (what is to be taught)
Dynamics, timbre, texture, and form in music.
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INSTRUCTIONAL
PROCEDURES:
a. Focusing event (something to get the students' attention):
a. Interactive listening guides in the context of a webpage or as an independent entity. |
b. Teaching procedures (methods you will use):
b. Students are given CD-ROMs that contain interactive listening guides and webpages. They use the CD-ROMs both in a computer classroom during class and at home. |
c. Formative check (progress checks throughout the module):
c. Students are asked to respond to questions about the listening guide’s content to check their level of understanding. |
d.
Student Participation (how you will get the students
to participate):
d. Students participate in an online discussion using the Discussion Board in a Blackboard environment. |
e. Closure (how you will end the module):
e. Students are required to listen to additional musical compositions without the use of listening guides and are asked to identify/describe the musical elements being studied. |
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EVALUATION
PROCEDURES: (how you will measure outcomes to determine if
the material has been
learned)
Evaluation is based on participation in online discussions, quizzes, and two live concert reviews.
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MAJOR
TECHNOLOGY:
ASP
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OTHER
REQUIRED TECHNOLOGY: (what students will need in order to experience
this module online--plugins, viewers,
etc.)
Windows, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Flash plug, Quicktime plug. |
CONTACT
INFORMATION:
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Name: Alberto |
Last
Name: Bird |
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Address: abird@hostos.cuny.edu |
Phone: |
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ABSTRACT:
This project involves the design and creation of teaching modules to enhance a Hybrid Music Appreciation course for Community College liberal arts students who are not music majors. The project entails two components: 1) The creation of a template that will enable the development of listening guides that are an integral component of the teaching modules and 2) the development of content for the guides themselves and for modules that incorporate these guides. The template being developed, which we are calling Listening Guide Creator, includes an original program, created by Miguel Garrido and Emmanuel Diaz, which will allow the user to create listening guides.
Following listening guides while listening to music has traditionally been challenging for non-music majors. The interactive listening guides being designed and developed allow for the coordination of visuals and sound, which will boost the students’ ability to follow and understand the music being studied. These listening guides are being designed for use in the context of online instruction of Music Appreciation.
The Listening Guide Creator template will allow the instructor to create listening guides in three steps: In the first step, the user is provided with an interface for retrieving timings from the selected media file. In step two, the timings are assigned a section of the viewable area of the listening guide and its corresponding text which is displayed at that time during the media file’s playback inside the listening guide. An advanced feature of this step will includes an html-like script that allows the user to incorporate formatted text into the listening guide. The last step is to select the output filename of the completed listening guide, click on a ‘Finish’ button, which compiles the selected media file and the created configuration file into a completed publishable listening guide.
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