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| This CD-ROM course is a combination of video lessons, a music library, and interactive exercises designed to enhance your learning experience. Composers covered in the course include Bach, Wagner, Antheil, Debussy, Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, Cage, Bartok, Copland, Ives, Gershwin, Stockhausen, Partch, Satie, Glass, and Reich, among others. Coupled with a printed composition book that is packed with critical thinking exercises and hands-on activities, this course is a musical tour de force. | ||||||
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| In your Composition Notebook, capture your thoughts and ideas about this period through challenging exercises and critical thinking activities. At the end of this command performance, you'll have a chance to send in a portion of your work and be recognized by Duke University as a savvy music critic. |  |
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Interactive Exercises Interactive exercises in each module provide a fun and engaging way for you to listen to music and analyze it with the ear of a critic; gain an understanding of musical elements like polytonality and equal temperament; and explore the history behind instruments and inventions of that time period. |
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Video Window and Demonstrations Join Anu Kirk, of the Duke University Talent Identification Program, on a tour through the Museum of 20th Century Music. His stories will engage you as he takes a series of events, people, and situations and fits them into the larger music history puzzle. Anu’s fascination with these connections is contagious! |
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Virtual Timeline This CD would not be complete without a virtual timeline that includes the major people and events in music, art, history, and literature of the twentieth century. Make your own connections as you travel through time, uncovering links between composers and artists, historical events and music, literature and art, and more. |
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