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Media and Methods: Sound
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This course explores the ways in which humans experience the realm of sound and how perceptions and technologies of sound emerge from cultural, economic, and historical worlds. It examines how environmental, linguistic, and musical sounds are construed cross-culturally. It describes the rise of telephony, architectural acoustics, sound recording, and the globalized travel of these technologies. Students address questions of ownership, property, authorship, and copyright in the age of digital file sharing. There is a particular focus on how the sound/noise boundary is imagined, created and modeled across diverse sociocultural and scientific contexts. Auditory examples will be provided. Instruction and practice in written and oral communication provided. At MIT, this course is limited to 20 students.

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Arts and Humanities
Graphic Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Picker, John
Date Added:
09/01/2012
Memphis: Beyond Blues, Jazz, and Soul
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With Blues, Jazz, and Soul Music as a foundational backdrop, Memphis has made many other significant contributions to music.  Artists such as Maurice White, (leader/founder of the 70s/80s supergroup Earth, Wind, and Fire), Big Star, and even the most recent Band Camino all call Memphis Home.  These artists along with others continue to push the creative envelope and discover new avenues of expression for Memphis Music.     

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Arts and Humanities
Film and Music Production
Performing Arts
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Author:
Charles Pender
Date Added:
01/13/2023
Memphis Blues and Soul: A Closer Look
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Blues and Soul music intersect in Memphis Tennessee.  Southern Soul as it is usually called, originated in Memphis and was greatly influenced by the blues of the city and the Mississippi Delta.  

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Arts and Humanities
Film and Music Production
Performing Arts
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Author:
Charles Pender
Date Added:
01/13/2023
Memphis: Jazz Piano earlier years
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A Look at Memphis Jazz Piano before James Williams, Donald Brown, and Mulgrew Miller made their significant contributions.  In addition to the great Phineas Newborn jr., Charles Thomas and Harold Mabern also made a tremendous impact.  Live music at local venues provided informal educational opportunities for students of all ages.   

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Arts and Humanities
Film and Music Production
Performing Arts
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Author:
Charles Pender
Date Added:
01/09/2023
Memphis: the Jazz Tradition
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This is a look at some of the more successful jazz pianists from Memphis Tennessee.  Each artist has experienced national and international acclaim as both a pianist and composer.  What's more, they are all comtemporaries having attended the University of Memphis (then Memphis State University)at the same time.  

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Film and Music Production
Performing Arts
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Author:
Charles Pender
Date Added:
01/09/2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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This web app is a complete critical edition of MND, which can be viewed as plain text or in a mode with glosses appropriate to students just getting familiar with the play. It has a second mode for more advanced students with textual notes and explorations of mythology and classical allusions. A final mode for performers/experiential learners displays the text showing typographical indications of scansion and rhetoric. The app also includes an interactive mode for memorization drills. The text from all modes is fully printable.

The text is accompanied by a full set of features, including:
a full cast list and doubling chart,
a textual history,
a performance history,
an essay on performance challenges and opportunities,
a guide to practical scansion principles,
a resources guide connecting readers to facsimiles and study aides,
and a special section covering all the music and dance cues in the show with suggestions and examples.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
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Interactive
Reading
Author:
David Daw
Nicole Thayer
Kurt Daw
Date Added:
10/14/2021
Modern Drama
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This course analyzes major modern plays featuring works by Shaw, Pirandello, Beckett, Brecht, Williams, Soyinka, Hwang, Churchill, Wilson, Frayn, Stoppard, Deveare Smith, and Kushner. The class particularly considers performance, sociopolitical and aesthetic contexts, and the role of theater in the world of modern multimedia.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Graphic Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Henderson, Diana
Date Added:
02/01/2006
Modern Music: 1900-1960
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This subject covers a specific branch of music history: Western concert music of first sixty years of the twentieth century. Although we will be listening to and studying many pieces (most of the highest caliber) the goal of the course is not solely to build up a repertory of works in our memory (though that is indeed a goal). We will be most concerned with larger questions of continuity and change in music. We will also consider questions of reception, or historiography - that is, the creation of history and our perception of it. Why do we perceive much of this music, so much closer in time to us than Mozart or Beethoven, to be so foreign? Is this music aloof and separate from popular music of the twentieth century or is there a real connection (perhaps hidden)? The subject will continue to follow some topics of central interest to music before 1960, such as serialism and aleatory, beyond the 1960 cutoff. Conversely a few topics which get their start just before 1960 but which flourish later (minimalism, computer music) will be covered only in 21M.263.

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Arts and Humanities
History
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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Author:
Cuthbert, Michael
Date Added:
09/01/2006
Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800
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This course surveys seven Baroque and Classical genres: opera, oratorio, cantata, sonata, concerto, quartet, symphony, and includes work by composers Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, Purcell, Schütz and Vivaldi. Course work is based on live performances as well as listening and reading assignments.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Neff, Teresa
Date Added:
09/01/2013
Music Appreciation: A Thematic Approach (Complete Course)
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This course is designed to teach not only historical facts about music but also to encourage deeper listening to music from a variety of sources. The course is a guided journey of listening, reading, and discussion (oral and written) of music, with corresponding recommended listening and assignments for deeper understanding. An emphasis of this design is to place music within the framework of how music is experienced instead of in a chronological sequence. To that end, the modules include a unit on the music of the Civil Rights movement, with optional material on music for social justice in contemporary America, and the musical contributions of musicians from Alabama. Instructors are encouraged to modify the materials to serve the needs of the students or audience they are serving.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Author:
Caterina Bristol
Brenda Luchsinger
Date Added:
06/03/2019
Music Appreciation: History, Culture, and Context
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This text covers basic elements and vocabulary of music; appreciation and understanding of diverse styles of music past and present; developing listening skills. Includes opportunities for experiencing music (recorded and/or live).
I. Music Fundamentals
II. History of Western Music before 1600
III. History of Western Music after 1600
IV. Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries
V. Listening to Genres
VI. Music of Louisiana, the Americas, and the World

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Affordable Learning LOUISiana
Author:
Bonnie Le (Author & Editor)
Brenda Wimberly (Author & Editor)
Constance Chemay (Editor)
Francis Scully (Author & Editor)
Jesse Boyd (Author & Editor)
Steven Edwards (Author & Editor)
Date Added:
01/14/2023
Music Composition
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This course features directed composition of larger forms of original writing involving voices and/or instruments. It includes a weekly seminar in composition for the presentation and discussion of work in progress. Students are expected to produce at least one substantive work, performed in public, by the end of the term. Contemporary compositions and major works from 20th-century music literature are studied.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Child, Peter
Date Added:
09/01/2008
Music, Dance and the Archive
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Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creative research. In this edited volume, Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy bring together performing artists, cultural leaders and interdisciplinary scholars to highlight the limits of archival records of music and dance. Through artistic methods drawn from Indigenous methodologies, dance studies and song practices, the contributors explore modes of re-embodying archival records, renewing song practices, countering colonial narratives and re-presenting performance traditions. The book’s nine chapters are written by song and dance practitioners, curators, music and dance historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists, who explore music and dance by Indigenous people from the West, far north and southeast of the Australian continent, and from Aotearoa New Zealand, Taiwan and Turtle Island (North America).

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
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Provider:
Sydney University Press
Author:
Edited Amanda Harris
Jakelin Troy
Linda Barwick
Date Added:
06/27/2023
Music: Its Language, History, and Culture
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Welcome to Music 1300, Music: Its Language History, and Culture. The course has a number of interrelated objectives:
1. To introduce you to works representative of a variety of music traditions.These include the repertoires of Western Europe from the Middle Agesthrough the present; of the United States, including art music, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater; and from at least two non-Western world areas (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent).
2. To enable you to speak and write about the features of the music you study,employing vocabulary and concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre,and form used by musicians.
3. To explore with you the historic, social, and cultural contexts and the role of class, ethnicity, and gender in the creation and performance of music,including practices of improvisation and the implications of oral andnotated transmission.
4. To acquaint you with the sources of musical sounds—instruments and voices fromdifferent cultures, found sounds, electronically generated sounds; basic principlesthat determine pitch and timbre.
5. To examine the influence of technology, mass media, globalization, and transnationalcurrents on the music of today.
The chapters in this reader contain definitions and explanations of musical terms and concepts,short essays on subjects related to music as a creative performing art, biographical sketchesof major figures in music, and historical and cultural background information on music fromdifferent periods and places.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
CUNY Academic Works
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Brooklyn College
Author:
Douglas Cohen
Date Added:
11/14/2018
Music Since 1960
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This course begins with the premise that the 1960s mark a great dividing point in the history of 20th century Western musical culture, and explores the ways in which various social and artistic concerns of composers, performers, and listeners have evolved since that decade. It focuses on works by classical composers from around the world. Topics include the impact of rock, as it developed during the 1960s - 70s; the concurrent emergence of post serial, neotonal, minimalist, and new age styles; the globalization of Western musical traditions; the impact of new technologies; and the significance of music video, video games, and other versions of multimedia. The course interweaves discussion of these topics with close study of seminal musical works, evenly distributed across the four decades since 1960; works by MIT composers are included.

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Arts and Humanities
Graphic Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Robison, Brian
Date Added:
02/01/2006
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
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Music Theory for the 21st–Century Classroom is an openly–licensed online four–semester college music theory textbook. This text differs from other music theory textbooks by focusing less on four–part (SATB) voiceleading and more on relating harmony to the phrase. Also, in traditional music theory textbooks, there is little emphasis on motivic analysis and analysis of melodic units smaller than the phrase. In my opinion, this led to students having difficulty with creating melodies, since the training they are given is typically to write a “melody” in quarter notes in the soprano voice of part writing exercises. When the assignments in those texts ask students to do more than this, the majority of the students struggle to create a melody with continuity and with appropriate placement of harmonies within a phrase because the text had not prepared them to do so.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Textbook
Provider:
University of Puget Sound
Author:
Robert Hutchinson
Date Added:
11/18/2021
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
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Music Theory for the 21st–Century Classroom is an openly–licensed online college music theory textbook that is meant to take the student from the basics of reading and writing pitches and rhythms through twelve–tone technique and minimalism over the course of four semesters. This text differs from other music theory textbooks by focusing less on four–part (SATB) voiceleading and more on relating harmony to the phrase. Also, in traditional music theory textbooks, there is little emphasis on motivic analysis and analysis of melodic units smaller than the phrase. Whenever possible, examples from popular music and music from film and musical theater are included to illustrate melodic and harmonic concepts, usually within the context of the phrase. Practice exercises (with answers), homework exercises, and practice tests are included.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
University of Puget Sound
Author:
Robert Hutchinson
Date Added:
06/03/2021
Musical Analysis
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This class is an introduction to the analysis of tonal music. Students develop analytical techniques based upon concepts learned in 21M.301-21M.302. Students study rhythm and form, harmony, line and motivic relationships at local and large scale levels of musical structure. Three papers (totaling 20 pages, one to be revised) and one oral presentation are required.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Child, Peter
Date Added:
02/01/2008
Musical Improvisation
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In this course, students study concepts and practice techniques of improvisation in solo and ensemble contexts. The course examines relationships between improvisation, composition, and performance based in traditional and experimental approaches. Hands-on music making will be complemented by discussion of the aesthetics of improvisation. Weekly lab sessions support work on musical technique. Guest artist / lecturers will engage students through mini-residencies in jazz with film, Indian music, electronic music, and blending improvisation with classic music; and an accompanying concert series will feature these artists in performance. Open by audition to instrumental or vocal performers.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Hall, Tom
Harvey, Mark
Date Added:
02/01/2013
Musical Instruments of the European Orchestra
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European orchestra musical instruments with classification, and the country and year of the most recent commonly used version of the instrument. A link to a Youtube example is provided.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
World Cultures
Material Type:
Module
Author:
Eric Schroeder
Date Added:
08/21/2023
Music and Technology: Algorithmic and Generative Music
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This course examines the history, techniques, and aesthetics of mechanical and computer-aided approaches to algorithmic music composition and generative music systems. Through creative hands-on projects, readings, listening assignments, and lectures, students will explore a variety of historical and contemporary approaches. Diverse tools and systems will be employed, including applications in Python, MIDI, Csound, SuperCollider, and Pure Data.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Computer Science
Engineering
Graphic Arts
Graphic Design
Mathematics
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ariza, Christopher
Date Added:
02/01/2010
Music and Technology (Contemporary History and Aesthetics)
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This course is an investigation into the history and aesthetics of music and technology as deployed in experimental and popular musics from the 19th century to the present. Through original research, creative hands-on projects, readings, and lectures, the following topics will be explored. The history of radio, audio recording, and the recording studio, as well as the development of musique concrète and early electronic instruments. The creation and extension of musical interfaces by composers such as Harry Partch, John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, and others. The exploration of electromagnetic technologies in pickups, and the development of dub, hip-hop, and turntablism. The history and application of the analog synthesizer, from the Moog modular to the Roland TR-808. The history of computer music, including music synthesis and representation languages. Contemporary practices in circuit bending, live electronics, and electro-acoustic music, as well as issues in copyright and intellectual property, will also be examined. No prerequisites.

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Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Graphic Arts
Graphic Design
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ariza, Christopher
Date Added:
09/01/2009
Music and Technology: Live Electronics Performance Practices
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This course is a creative, hands-on exploration of contemporary and historical approaches to live electronics performance and improvisation, including basic analog instrument design, computer synthesis programming, and hardware and software interface design.

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Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Computer Science
Electronic Technology
Engineering
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ariza, Christopher
Date Added:
02/01/2011
Music and Technology: Recording Techniques and Audio Production
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This course is an introduction to music recording and audio production from both a practical and a theoretical perspective. Learn about the physical nature and human perception of sound, how it is transformed to and from electrical signals by means of microphones and loudspeakers, and how it can be creatively modeled through mixing consoles, signal processors, and digital audio workstations. The course covers making informed choices about microphone selection and positioning, and various editing, mixing, and mastering techniques.

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Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Electronic Technology
Engineering
Graphic Arts
Graphic Design
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Hollerweger, Florian
Date Added:
09/01/2016
Music and Technology: Sound Design
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In this course, we will rebuild the everyday sounds of nature, machines, and animals from scratch and encapsulate them in dynamic sound objects which can be embedded into computer games, animations, movies, virtual environments, sound installations, and theatre productions. You will learn how to analyze and model sounds and resynthesize them with the open-source graphical programming environment Pure Data (Pd). Our work will be guided by Andy Farnell's book Designing Sound (MIT Press, 2010). No previous programming experience is required.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Electronic Technology
Engineering
Film and Music Production
Graphic Arts
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Hollerweger, Florian
Date Added:
02/01/2016
Music of Africa
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This course is an introduction to selected musical traditions of West Africa. A variety of musical practices and their cultural contexts will be explored through listening, reading, and written assignments, with an emphasis on class discussion. The course includes in-class instruction in West African drumming, song and dance, as well as lecture-demonstrations by guest artists.
After an introductory unit, the course will be organized around four main geographical areas: Senegal, Mali, Ghana, and Nigeria. An in-depth study of music from these countries will be interspersed with brief overviews of Southern, Central, and East Africa.

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Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
History
Performing Arts
Social Science
World History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Tang, Patricia
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Music of India
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This course focuses on Hindustani classical music of North India, and also involves learning about the ancient foundations of the rich classical traditions of music and dance of all Indian art and culture. Students explore the practice the ragas and talas through learning songs, dance, and drumming compositions, and develop insights through listening, readings, and concert attendance.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Social Science
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ruckert, George
Date Added:
02/01/2007
Music on the Move
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Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Michigan
Author:
Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Date Added:
11/18/2021
Musings on Digital Publishing
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Reflections on book publishing in a digital and online world

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Reflections on digital publishing and related matters, with links to other articles, posts and comments.

Please credit Anna von Veh, if any of the material is referenced. Thanks:)

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Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Communication
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Say Books
Date Added:
01/26/2024
Mythoi Koinoi
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An Open Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth

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Mythoi Koinoi: An Online, Open-Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth provides undergraduate university students with free, easy access to primary source texts and images for Greek and Roman mythology. Mythoi Koinoi means "Mythology for the People" in Ancient Greek, and it is intended to give everyone who engages with it access to the writings and artistic creations of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

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Mythoi Koinoi: An Online, Open-Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth began with the observation that many of the texts that we study in our Greek and Roman mythology classes have translations that are available online, either in the public domain or under open access copyright, though many of them are archaic, unreadable, and therefore inaccessible to modern students. Accessibility, then, has been the guiding principle for the book. We set out to update these open access translations, providing clear introductions that situate each text according to time, place, and genre, and organizing them into thematic chapters. We have adapted all translations that are more than forty years old for readability, while maintaining the integrity of the text and its faithfulness to the original languages.

Additionally, while there are thousands of primary source images related to Ancient Greek and Roman mythology available online, they are generally uncontextualized and scattered across multiple platforms, including museum databases, open access media collections, and popular webpages. We collected and organized these images, situating them within their respective chapters and providing necessary context for identification and interpretation.

The anthology contains more than 80 primary source texts from 35 authors, along with hyperlinks to online translations of many more. It has more than 600 high-resolution images of artwork from ancient Greece and Rome. In crafting the book, we have followed best practices for Universal Design for Learning. All images come with captions, descriptions and alternate text, for those that are unable to view them. There are over 500 glossary entries that are accessible either through links within each of the primary texts, or through the glossary section at the back of the book.

The book contains 43 chapters, organized into 7 parts, starting from the myths of creation and destruction, and going through the aftermath of the Trojan War. The sixth chapter focuses specifically on mythology unique to Ancient Rome, and the seventh chapter focuses on the mythology and archaeology of cities and spaces. We have also included mythology from Mesopotamia and the Levant in two chapters, “Aphrodite” and “Flood Myths.” We hope that these chapters will give instructors and students the opportunity to explore some of the ways in which ancient Greek and Roman myth is connected to earlier mythology from ancient West Asia.

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Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
Religious Studies
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of British Columbia
Date Added:
09/03/2021
Open Educational Resources
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This Open Educational Resources site will complement textbooks and lectures with obvious information gaps. An extension of regular learning content. For example, you can accompany the text with multimedia materials such as videos. By presenting information in multiple formats, students can more easily learn the material being taught.

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Accounting
Algebra
Anatomy/Physiology
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Architecture and Design
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Biology
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Calculus
Chemistry
Communication
Composition and Rhetoric
Computer Science
Criminal Justice
Culinary Arts
Cultural Geography
Early Childhood Development
Economics
Education
Elementary Education
Engineering
English Language Arts
Environmental Science
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Geology
Geometry
Graphic Arts
Graphic Design
Health, Medicine and Nursing
History
Language Education (ESL)
Law
Literature
Management
Marketing
Mathematics
Numbers and Operations
Nutrition
Performing Arts
Philosophy
Physics
Psychology
Public Relations
Reading Literature
Sociology
Statistics and Probability
U.S. History
World History
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Activity/Lab
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Lecture Notes
Author:
Vanessa Vazquez
Date Added:
09/20/2022
Open Guitar Building Project
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The Open Guitar Building Project—a part of ETSU’s Guitar Building project—is a repository of open source designs for teachers and builders of acoustic and electric stringed instruments. Affiliated with the STEM Guitar Project (http://guitarbuilding.org) since 2010, ETSU’s Guitar Building project is following the open access tradition of this National Science Foundation (NSF) grant-funded student engagement effort. The designs and support materials herein are made available through a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International) license; please feel free to use, share, and adapt these designs and materials for your use. All we ask is for you to give appropriate credit to the ETSU Guitar Building project and this Open Educational Resource page.

For more information on the ETSU Guitar Building project, please visit our social media site at http://www.Facebook.com/ETSUGuitars.

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Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Engineering
Film and Music Production
Mathematics
Performing Arts
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East Tennessee State University
Author:
Bill Hemphill
Date Added:
07/13/2022
Original Études for the Developing Conductor
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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.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Textbook
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Virginia Tech
Date Added:
05/17/2023
The Path to Funding
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The Artist’s Guide to Building Your Audience, Generating Income, and Realizing Career Sustainability

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Based on coursework developed at Peabody Conservatory, this book breaks down the process of developing an artist mission statement, generating new ideas for creative projects, and creating an engaging project description. It also covers methods for artists to identify their audience, generate a comprehensive project budget, collect compelling work samples, and identify potential funders to support their creative work. Written by a team of active artists and educators, this resource provides creatives with tools and strategies to communicate passionately and effectively about their work and take control of their financial and artistic future.

Word Count: 63170

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Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Film and Music Production
Performing Arts
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Textbook
Provider:
Johns Hopkins University
Author:
Christina Manceor
Robin McGinness
Zane Forshee
Date Added:
10/17/2022
The Path to Funding
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The Artist’s Guide to Building Your Audience, Generating Income, and Realizing Career Sustainability

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Based on coursework developed at Peabody Conservatory, this book breaks down the process of developing an artist mission statement, generating new ideas for creative projects, and creating an engaging project description. It also covers methods for artists to identify their audience, generate a comprehensive project budget, collect compelling work samples, and identify potential funders to support their creative work. Written by a team of active artists and educators, this resource provides creatives with tools and strategies to communicate passionately and effectively about their work and take control of their financial and artistic future.

Word Count: 63590

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Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Film and Music Production
Performing Arts
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Textbook
Provider:
Johns Hopkins University
Date Added:
10/17/2022
Phaedra: A Tragedy
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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Textbook
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Toronto Metropolitan University
Date Added:
07/24/2020
Playing Chords on Guitar
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This lesson provides three videos that cover the basics of playing chords on guitar. Each lesson is accompanied by questions that the student should be able to answer after watching the video.The three videos cover:Learning to read chord diagrams and play chordsLearning strum patternsLearning how to switch chords effectively 

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Performing Arts
Material Type:
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Author:
Michael Silva
Date Added:
01/28/2021
Playwrights' Workshop
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This course provides continued work in the development of play scripts for the theater. Writers work on sustained pieces in weekly workshop meetings, individual consultation with the instructor, and in collaboration with student actors, directors, and designers. Fully developed scripts are eligible for inclusion in the Playwrights' Workshop Production.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Brody, Alan
Date Added:
02/01/2012
Playwriting I
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This class introduces the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly assignments, in class writing exercises, and work on a sustained piece, students explore scene structure, action, events, voice, and dialogue. We examine produced playscripts and discuss student work. This class's emphasis is on process, risk-taking, and finding one's own voice and vision.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Harrington, Laura
Date Added:
02/01/2005
Pocket Share Jesus: Be a Digital Witness for Christ
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Why and how can followers of Jesus Christ share His message of love, grace and forgiveness with others in our increasingly digital world? in "Pocket Share Jesus: Be a Digital Witness for Christ," Wesley Fryer offers both reasons and eight different ways Christians should and can be "digital witnesses" for Jesus.

Word Count: 16530

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Religious Studies
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Textbook
Provider:
Speed of Creativity Learning LLC
Date Added:
03/24/2023
Popular Musics of the World
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This course focuses on popular music, i.e. music created for and transmitted by mass media. Various popular music genres from around the world will be studied through listening, reading and written assignments, with an emphasis on class discussion. In particular, we will consider issues of musical change, syncretism, Westernization, globalization, the impact of recording industries, and the post-colonial era. Case studies will include Afro-pop, reggae, bhangra, rave, and global hip-hop.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Marketing
Performing Arts
Social Science
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Tang, Patricia
Date Added:
02/01/2005
Principles of Design
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This course deals with advanced design theories and textual analysis. Emphasis is placed on script analysis in general, as well as the investigation of design principles from a designer's perspective. Students also refine technical skills in rendering and presentation, historical research, and analysis. Class sessions include interaction with student/faculty directors and other staff designers. The goal of this course is for students to approach text with a fresh vision and translate that vision into design for performance.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Fregosi, William
Held, Leslie
Katz, Michael
Perlow, Karen
Date Added:
09/01/2005
The Public Domain Song Anthology
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The Public Domain Song Anthology by David Berger and Chuck Israels is a collection of 348 popular songs with modern and traditional harmonization for both study and performance. This open educational resource was curated by two leading jazz repertory experts and consists of songs in the US public domain. This anthology is the first of its kind and is free for students and performers to use, adapt, remix, and share. The songs, many of which are at risk of being forgotten, are free of copyright restrictions and are available in multiple formats to promote greater usage and dissemination.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Film and Music Production
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Author:
Chuck Israels
David Berger
Date Added:
07/15/2020
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture
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A guide for Artist and Musician Biographies at http://aaep1600.osu.edu

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This is a guidebook to a web resource of Artist and Musician biographies (http://aaep1600.osu.edu). We discuss art and music in the context of popular culture, so chances are you will see relationships between art and music and what you are learning and the way you live, to connect them to your own experience.

Word Count: 19387

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
Ohio State University
Author:
Clayton Funk
Date Added:
01/01/2016
“Reading and Interpreting Primary Source Documents: Irene Corey and Cats!”
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This lesson plan is designed to engage students in the reading an interpretation of primary source documents in a smaller group setting. The focus is on materials in the Irene Corey collection at Arizona State University. 

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Performing Arts
Material Type:
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Author:
Caelin Ross
Date Added:
11/24/2022
Recognizing Notes in the Context of a Key
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Improve your ear by learning to recognize pitches in the context of a key. Use the radio buttons to decide if you want to practice in a major or a minor key, whether you want to use notes only from the tonality you chose or from all twelve notes of the chromatic scale, and whether you want to hear the scale or a cadence in that key as a reference. Choose the range (in number of octaves) from which you would like the note selected. Click the "new example" button and the scale or cadence will be played, followed by a note selected at random subject to your restrictions. It is up to you to determine the note that was played. If you need to hear the randomly selected note again, click the "repeat note" button. You can check your answer by ear or you can have the answer displayed for you by clicking the "show answer" checkbox. The "fixed tonic C" checkbox lets you always work in C major or to have the tonic selected at random with each new example.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Homework/Assignment
Interactive
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Provider:
Wolfram Research
Provider Set:
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Author:
Marc Brodie
Date Added:
09/04/2013
Reflection Toolkit: Strategies for Facilitating Reflection in the Classroom
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This Reflection Toolkit, compiled by the faculty inquiry group (FIG), includes classroom strategies for integrating reflection into one's existing syllabi. The lesson plans highlight how to encourage effective student reflections.The toolkit includes best practices to facilitate reflection in classes across the disciplines in the context of a variety of student-centered activities (including group-work, online learning, and interactive modules).

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Information Science
Literature
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
CUNY Academic Works
Provider Set:
Queensborough Community College
Author:
Cimino, Alison
DiGiorgio, Elizabeth
Kim, Miseon
Murolo, Sebastian
Schrynemakers, Ilse
Tarafdar, Meghmala
Date Added:
11/18/2019
Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context
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Welcome to Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context! Although this book is intended primarily for use in the college music appreciation classroom, it was designed with consideration for independent learners, advanced high school students, and experienced musicians. That is to say, it includes enough detail that expert guidance is not required and is written using broadly-accessible language. At the same time, it addresses advanced topics and positions music as a serious object of study.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of North Georgia
Author:
Esther Morgan-Ellis
Date Added:
11/18/2021
Rock 'n' Roll: Beginnings to Woodstock
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This collection uses primary sources to explore the early history of Rock and Roll music. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
Performing Arts
U.S. History
Material Type:
Primary Source
Provider:
Digital Public Library of America
Provider Set:
Primary Source Sets
Author:
Melissa Strong
Date Added:
01/20/2016
Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series: Интервью с Вениамином Смеховым
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This is a series of 3 lessons based on an interview with actor, director, and writer Veniamin Smekhov. The topics of the lessons are: The Taganka Theater, Vladimir Vysotsky, and Censorship.

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This is a series of 3 lessons based on an interview with actor, director, and writer Veniamin Smekhov. The topics of the lessons are: The Taganka Theater, Vladimir Vysotsky, and Censorship.

Lesson authors: Shannon Donnally Quinn, Victoria Thorstensson, Benjamin Rifkin, Dianna Murphy

New version created by: Shannon Donnally Quinn with help from Lidia Gault and Isabella Palange

Cover photo by Dmitry Ruzov – http://ruzovdmitry.livejournal.com/208077.html, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69108888

Word Count: 5670

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Performing Arts
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Textbook
Author:
Benjamin Rifkin
Dianna Murphy
Shannon Donnally Quinn
Victoria Thorstensson
Date Added:
10/25/2021
Schubert to Debussy
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This course is a survey of developments in Western musical style, 1815-1915. Students will study works by 35 composers, including the romantics: Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann; the post-romantics: Wagner, Verdi, and Brahms; the turn-of-the-centurians: Mahler, Debussy, and Ravel; and the Americans: Gottschalk, Beach, and Joplin. Score-reading ability is beneficial.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Shadle, Charles
Date Added:
09/01/2006
Screening Shakespeare
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Screening Shakespeare is an open-access web-based textbook written and designed by Alexa Alice
Joubin based on her original research. It contains openly-licensed learning modules that introduce
students to key concepts of film studies, such as mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound and music,
and film theory within the context of film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Ethnic Studies
Film and Music Production
Literature
Performing Arts
Social Science
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Assessment
Interactive
Textbook
Author:
Alexa Alice Joubin
Date Added:
01/11/2023
Script Analysis
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This class focuses on reading a script theatrically with a view to mounting a coherent production. Through careful, intensive reading of a variety of plays from different periods and different aesthetics, a pattern emerges for discerning what options exist for interpretating a script. Students discuss the consequences of those options for production.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ouellette, Michael
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Script Analysis
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This course focuses on reading a script theatrically with a view to mounting a coherent production. Through careful, intensive reading of a variety of plays from different periods and different aesthetics, a pattern emerges for discerning what options exist for interpretating a script.
The Fall 2005 version of this course contains alternate readings and assignments sections.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Brody, Alan
Date Added:
09/01/2011
Shakespeare and Voice
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Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'. This audio recording is part the Interviews on Great Writers series presented by Oxford University Podcasts.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
University of Oxford
Provider Set:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Author:
Linda Gates
Date Added:
08/01/2012
Sight-Reading for Guitar
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Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method Book and Video Series teaches guitar players from all musical backgrounds to understand, read and play modern staff notation in real time. The Keep Going Method is designed to impart the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for sight-reading with efficiency, fun and encouragement.

The team behind the series has decided to launch it early. We want to equip guitarists, who may be adjusting to new methods of teaching and learning, with a quality open resource.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Rebus Community
Author:
Chelsea Green
Date Added:
04/16/2020
So You Think You Know Dance? Fundamentals of Dance
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Introduction to various forms of dance (to include ballet, tap, jazz, modern, and social dance) with an emphasis on dance technique, history, theory and appreciation.
Chapter 1: What is Dance?
Chapter 2: Elements of Dance
Chapter 3: Ballet
Chapter 4: Modern Dance
Chapter 5: Tap, Jazz, Musical Theater, Television and Film
Chapter 6: Religious and Social Dance
Chapter 7: Hip Hop
Chapter 8: Current Trends

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Affordable Learning LOUISiana
Author:
Mary Francis "Cissy" Whipp
Peter Klubek (Editor)
Roshanda D. Spears
Susan Perlis
Vanessa Kanamoto
Date Added:
01/14/2023
Social World Sensing via Social Image Analysis from Social Media
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This work explores seven topics from various subject areas (global public health, environmentalism, human rights, political expression, and human predation) through social imagery and data from social media.

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Social imagery, the visuals shared by users via various platforms and applications, may be analyzed to elicit something of massmind (and individual) thinking. This work involves the exploration of seven topics from various subject areas (global public health, environmentalism, human rights, political expression, and human predation) through social imagery and data from social media. The coding techniques involve manual coding, the integration of multiple social data streams, computational text analysis, data visualizations, and other combinations of approaches.

Word Count: 101772

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Communication
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
New Prairie Press
Author:
Shalin Hai-Jew
Date Added:
04/15/2020
Some Plays (and Films) about Astronomers
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This is a first attempt at making an annotated list of plays and films that are specifically about astronomers. No claim is made for completeness and additional suggestions are most welcome.

I don't list operas here. A list of astronomy operas is included in my topical listing of music inspired by astronomy at: http://bit.ly/astronomymusic

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Astronomy
Performing Arts
Physical Science
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Reading
Student Guide
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Andrew Fraknoi
Date Added:
10/20/2019
Spring 18 – Introduction to Theater – Learning Resources
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Welcome to our Introduction to Theater – Learning Resources Spring 2018 book. The purpose of this book is to provide open educational resources for those who study Theater. It’s being authored by many helpful Cleveland State University Theater students, as well as Lisa Bernd, PhD, and Heather Caprette, MFA. In the spirit of open, it’s our desire that any alterations of the assignments be shared openly with others, at no charge, but realize we can’t control for this and there’s not always an easy way for someone to share publicly. Many authors of OER generate resources to freely help students and teachers because they realize the challenges students are facing with affording an education and educational materials. We realize this challenge and it’s our desire that these resources be provided for free.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Cleveland State University
Provider Set:
Michael Schwartz Library Pressbooks
Author:
Heather Caprette
Lisa Brenda
Theater Students at CSU
Date Added:
01/03/2020
Staging Shakespeare
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Staging Shakespeare is series of brief video commentaries on performing and directing Shakespeare including extracts of two plays- 'The Tempest' and 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'. An English teacher also explains how she uses IT resources to engage students.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
University of Oxford
Provider Set:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Author:
Archie Cornish
Dylan Townley
Joyti Chandegra
Kate O'Connor
Nick Lyons
Tiffany Stern
Date Added:
08/23/2012
Storytelling on Screen: An Online Playback Theatre Archive and Guidebook
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Playback Theatre is a form of community-centered storytelling theater where the audience tells stories, which are then reflected by a company of actors and musicians. Storytelling on Screen: An Online Playback Theatre Archive and Guidebook is an open education resource consisting of a collection of full-length recordings of online Playback Theatre performances, and a 55-page explanatory guidebook. The guidebook, featuring a foreword by Playback Theatre co-founder, Jo Salas, explains the adaptation to online performances and some of the key concepts, roles, and forms involved in online Playback Theatre. The resource as a whole is suitable for a wide range of theatre students in courses such as applied theatre, theatre for social justice, improvisation, theatre appreciation, or acting. The guidebook contains hyperlinks to specific sections of the archive where students can see a given form or concept in action, allowing for a comparison of how different companies approach a given form.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Virginia Tech
Provider Set:
VTech Works
Author:
Heidi Winters Vogel
Jordan Rosin
Sammy Lebron
Date Added:
10/07/2021
Stravinsky to the Present
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This course provides an overview of the musical styles and techniques developed over the past 115 years. The anthology and supplemental listening will present a range of art music aesthetics in a variety of genres such as chamber music, symphonic and choral music, and opera. While tuning your ears to novel sounds, you will hone your own preferences and aim to understand the motivations behind and importance of a wide diversity of compositional orientations, including Expressionism, Impressionism, atonality, neo-Classicism, serialism, nationalism, the influence of jazz and popular idioms, post-tonality, electronic music, aleatory, performance art, post-modernism, minimalism, spectralism, the New Complexity, neo-Romanticism, and post-minimalism.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Pollock, Emily
Date Added:
02/01/2016
Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Company
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Taking as its starting point the works of one of Britain's most respected, prolific—and funny—living dramatists, this seminar will explore a wide range of knowledge in fields such as math, philosophy, politics, history and art. The careful reading and discussion of plays by (Sir) Tom Stoppard and some of his most compelling contemporaries (including Caryl Churchill, Anna Deveare Smith and Howard Barker) will allow us to time-travel and explore other cultures, and to think about the medium of drama as well as one writer's work in depth. Some seminar participants will report on earlier plays that influenced these writers, others will research everything from Lord Byron's poetry to the bridges of Konigsberg, from Dadaism to Charter 77. Employing a variety of critical approaches (both theoretical and theatrical), we will consider what postmodernity means, as applied to these plays. In the process, we will analyze how drama connects with both the culture it represents and that which it addresses in performance. We will also explore the wit and verbal energy of these contemporary dramatists…not to mention, how Fermat's theorem, classical translation, and chaos theory become the stuff of stage comedy.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Henderson, Diana
Date Added:
02/01/2014
Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War
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This course explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Molière. The class compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
History
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Henderson, Diana
Sonenberg, Janet
Date Added:
02/01/2005
Studies in Drama: Too Hot to Handle: Forbidden Plays in Modern America
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Unlike film, theater in America does not have a ratings board that censors content. So plays have had more freedom to explore and to transgress normative culture. Yet censorship of the theater has been part of American culture from the beginning, and continues today. How and why does this happen, and who decides whether a play is too dangerous to see or to teach? Are plays dangerous? Sinful? Even demonic? In our seminar, we will study plays that have been censored, either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists). We'll look at laws, both national and local, relating to the "obscene", as well as unofficial practices, and think about the way censorship operates in American life now. And of course we will study the offending texts, themselves, to find what is really dangerous about them, for ourselves.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Philosophy
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Fleche, Anne
Date Added:
09/01/2008
Studies in Western Music History: Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Music History
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The disciplines of music history and music theory have been slow to embrace the digital revolutions that have transformed other fields' text-based scholarship (history and literature in particular). Computational musicology opens the door to the possibility of understanding—even if at a broad level—trends and norms of behavior of large repertories of music. This class presents the major approaches, results, and challenges of computational musicology through readings in the field, gaining familiarity with datasets, and hands on workshops and assignments on data analysis and "corpus" (i.e., repertory) studies. Class sessions alternate between discussion/lecture and labs on digital tools for studying music. A background in music theory and/or history is required, and experience in computer programming will be extremely helpful. Coursework culminates in an independent research project in quantitative or computational musicology that will be presented to the class as a whole.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Cuthbert, Michael
Date Added:
02/01/2012
The Supernatural in Music, Literature and Culture
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This course explores the relationship between music and the supernatural, focusing on the social history and context of supernatural beliefs as reflected in key literary and musical works from 1600 to the present. It provides an understanding of the place of ambiguity and the role of interpretation in culture, science and art. Great works of art by Shakespeare, Verdi, Goethe (in translation), Gounod, Henry James and Benjamin Britten are explored, as well as readings from the most recent scholarship on magic and the supernatural.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
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Full Course
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MIT
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Author:
Fuller, Mary
Shadle, Charles
Date Added:
09/01/2013
A Survey of Form in Music for the College Classroom
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A Survey of Form in Music for the College Classroom is a concise and practical text for use in undergraduate music form and analysis classes. It is an extension of A Survey of Form in Music for the College Classroom, a text for freshman and sophomore music theory courses, and shares two chapters – Cadences and Small-Scale Form and Binary and Ternary Form – with that text.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
10/05/2023
A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom: Chromatic Harmony 1
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A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom is a concise, practical, and readable text and workbook for use in the freshman and sophomore music theory curriculum.

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Performing Arts
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Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
09/29/2022
A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom: Chromatic Harmony 2 and 20th Century Music
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A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom is a concise, practical, and readable text and workbook for use in the freshman and sophomore music theory curriculum.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Author:
Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
09/29/2022
A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom: Diatonic Harmony
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A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom is a concise, practical, and readable text and workbook for use in the freshman and sophomore music theory curriculum.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Author:
Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
09/29/2022
A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom: Fundamentals
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A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom is a concise, practical, and readable text and workbook for use in the freshman and sophomore music theory curriculum.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
09/29/2022
Symphony and Concerto
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This course is a survey of significant orchestral masterworks composed during three centuries. Listening assignments include 34 symphonies and 24 concertos, composed from the 1720s to the 1990s. Class discussion and oral presentations focus on the works in 18 miniature scores; prior score-reading experience is helpful. Each of the three written papers reviews a concert attended during the term. Since this is a participatory subject, each student will give oral presentations concerning composers and their symphonies and/or concertos.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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MIT
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Author:
Lindgren, Lowell
Date Added:
02/01/2007
TA 121 - Oral Interpretation of Literature - OER Course
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Students will be able to foster an appreciation of literature and develop creative skills in public speaking and performance. Students will analyze various literary forms (poetry, novels, plays, letters, diaries, etc.) as texts for oral presentation. Students will explore oral traditions and other nonliterary sources and events as oral presentation material. Class exercises introduce vocal, physical and other speaking techniques to effectively communicate a point of view. Recommended: College-level reading and writing skills are highly recommended for success in this course.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Provider:
Linn-Benton Community College
Author:
Tinamarie Ivey
Date Added:
03/14/2019
TA 147 -  Introduction to Theater
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A comprehensive introduction to the art, history and workings of the theater. Students will be given a broad and general background in theater including production elements (lights, sound, sets, costumes, make-up, etc...) of acting, theater history and criticism. Students will attend live performances, view videos of plays and write reviews of live and filmed theater. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Develop a working definition of theatre. Identify the roles of theatre practitioners. Identify the basic structure of a play script. Apply the basic criteria for theatre criticism. Identify the various theatre genres. Identify and describe the functions and use of different lighting, sound and other stage equipment. Examine the values within the range of the human experience and its impact in the expression of Theater.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
Linn-Benton Community College
Author:
Dan Stone
Tinamarie Ivey
Date Added:
07/17/2019
TA 240 - Creative Drama for Classroom - OER Course
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This course is designed to train prospective teachers, theatre practitioners and those interested in broadening their skills in the of leading creative drama sessions within the classroom, studio or recreational facility. Class activities are designed to support curriculum development as well as promoting drama as an art and discipline. Through active learning students explore theories and concepts of Creative Drama practices that are used in the development of curriculum-based lesson plans. Creative Drama focuses on process.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Provider:
Linn-Benton Community College
Author:
Tinamarie Ivey
Date Added:
03/14/2019
TH 3633/3923 Library Instruction
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Word Count: 1722

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Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Computer Science
Performing Arts
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Oklahoma State University
Date Added:
08/25/2020
THEA 1100 - ABAC
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These supplements cover the outcomes for the Theatre Appreciation course at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, GA, as taught by Dr. Brian Ray.

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Performing Arts
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Reading
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Brian Ray
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06/10/2020
Tartuffe or the Hypocrite
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Translated by Curtis Hidden Page

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Toronto Metropolitan University
Date Added:
01/26/2024
Teaching Low Brass
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The purpose of this textbook is to provide resources about teaching low brass instruments to music educators and future music educators. The book was developed by the author as part of the open/alternative textbook initiative at Kansas State University. It Is the textbook used for the Kansas State University course Music 239-Low Brass Techniques and Materials.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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New Prairie Press
Author:
Steven Maxwell
Date Added:
01/07/2019
Technical Design: Scenery, Mechanisms, and Special Effects
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This class looks at the special structural and practical needs of theatrical scenery and effects and how they can be constructed. We map the technical design process from initial meetings to realization on stage. The class emphasizes safety, budgeting, and problem solving. Ten 1-3 page Tech notes are required as well as a final project. Work includes actual production assignments as well as paper design projects.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Engineering
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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MIT
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Author:
Katz, Michael
Date Added:
02/01/2004
Technical Theatre Practicum Textbook
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Technical Theatre II (Intermediate)
CHAPTER 1: JOBS IN TECHNICAL THEATRE
CHAPTER 2: WORKING IN A NEW VENUE
CHAPTER 3: PERFORMANCE ETIQUETTE
CHAPTER 4: THE ACTOR SCENE BREAKDOWN
CHAPTER 5: SCENERY
CHAPTER 6: STAGE PROPERTIES
CHAPTER 7: STAGE LIGHTING
CHAPTER 8: COSTUMES
CHAPTER 9: SOUND
CHAPTER 10: BLOCKING NOTATION
CHAPTER 11: PRODUCTION REPORTS
CHAPTER 12: CUEING SCRIPTS

Access also available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ibRKS2v_qeQwXuZHKAvb2I0jAn7GwCSM

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Author:
Christopher R Boltz
Date Added:
08/06/2020
Technical Theatre Practicum - Version 1
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Welcome to the exciting world of technical theatre. Studying this topic can lead to many different careers in several different sectors of the economy. The general skills needed for any of the careers or sectors have many things in common. Workers need to be dead-line oriented, as most productions have firm timelines that cannot be altered. Critical thinking and analysis are much needed skills. Almost every project in the field is unique and technicians and designers alike must discover the best way of reaching a project’s goal. Creative problem solving is trait successful practitioners have in common. With every project being unique, there are no guaranteed solutions to the problems that are presented. Technicians draw on their vast experience of what worked in the past that can be adapted to be a solution to the current problems. Clear communication and collaboration round out the necessary skills. No technical theatre project is ever handled by one person on their own. Collaboration with many people is the norm, and successful collaboration requires clear written and verbal communication skills.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Textbook
Provider:
College of the Canyons
Author:
Christopher R Boltz
Date Added:
11/18/2021
Terra Nostra Curriculum Resources
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The curriculum shared here utilizes Terra Nostra, a multimedia symphony about climate change. Variations of the curriculum were developed by Kim Davenport for use in several 100-, 200- and 300-level non-major music courses at the University of Washington, Tacoma. More than 50% of UWT undergraduate students are the first in their family to attend college, and nearly 60% are students of color.Depending on the exact level and subject-matter of each course, Terra Nostra was utilized in support of a variety of learning objectives:Building students’ listening skills, through the combination of music and video, and through the analysis of music without wordsDrawing interdisciplinary connections between music and other disciplinesProviding an example of music created to raise awareness about a timely social issueAlthough the assignments shared here were designed for music courses, they could easily be adapted for inclusion in courses in other disciplines, and this is indeed one of the motivations for sharing this curriculum through a Creative Commons license.

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Arts and Humanities
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Performing Arts
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Kim Davenport
Date Added:
11/12/2022
Testing out the standard pass through
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If I create a module in OER Commons and tag with a standard, will the standard be pulled through when I use the LTI app in Schoology?

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Performing Arts
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Author:
Bridget Mariano
Date Added:
02/25/2019
Theater 100: Interviewing Working Artists
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This is a lesson used in a Theater 100 Intro to Theater classat West Los Angeles College in 2022. Students were part of an open-pedagogy process that connected them with stage artists of color whom they interviewed about their careers in stage design, writing and directing.Artists were contacted directly and volunteered to be part of the project. Most were delighted to speak with students aboout their careers.

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Performing Arts
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Author:
Elise Forier Edie
Date Added:
06/22/2022
Theater 100--Interviewing Working Artists: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)
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This is a lesson used in a Theater 100 Intro to Theater classat West Los Angeles College in 2022. Students were part of an open-pedagogy process that connected them with stage artists of color whom they interviewed about their careers in stage design, writing and directing.Artists were contacted directly and volunteered to be part of the project. Most were delighted to speak with students aboout their careers.

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Performing Arts
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Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)
Date Added:
09/27/2022
Theater Arts Topics
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Directed practice in acting, directing, or design on a sustained theater piece, either one-act or full length, from pre-rehearsal preparation to workshop production.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Sonenberg, Janet
Date Added:
09/01/2004