The Musical Experience

Whether it is Music to Celebrate, Music from the Stage, or Music for Mourning, each student will associate the music presented in The Musical Experience with a life experience - enhancing the classroom experience!

To meet the evolving needs of music appreciation students and instructors, the author of The Musical Experience has integrated: 

• An easy-to-read conversational writing style to resonate with students from diverse backgrounds and experience.
• Multiple delivery options! This complete course package with print textbook, online music library and accompanying website supplements make it ideal for face-to-face, hybrid, and distance learning settings.
• Real-time assessments throughout! Biographical Spotlights, Listening Exercise Questions, Chapter Question Assignments, and What Makes Music features provide gradable components that can be completed by the student on an ongoing basis throughout the semester.
• Course management tools including an electronic grade book, drop boxes, syllabus, calendar, online exams (with online listening tests), PowerPoint© presentations, and more provide time-stretched instructors with a ready-made, turn-key, easily customized course.
• Access to a completely re-tooled online music library that features over 32 million musical selections with accompanying textbook playlists, as well as the ability for students and instructors to create their own lists to expand their own listening library.
• A thematic approach to music appreciation - each theme is described along a historical timeline.
• Interactive listening charts that include all of the musical examples presented in each chapter. The charts help students with historical periods, genre, type of piece, and composer.