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MUSC 1101: Music Appreciation: Open Educational Resources

This libguide will help in understanding the history of music and how it has influenced culture

Open Journals

Journal of New Music Research - from 1972 to present.--Publishes research on all genres of new music, from classical styles to modern popular music.

Music Theory Online -from 1993 to present --a peer-reviewed open-access electronic journal of research and scholarship in music theory, music analysis, and related disciplines

Journal of Music History Pedagogy -The Journal of Music History Pedagogy publishes original research on any aspect of the teaching and learning of music history at both the undergraduate and graduate level, for all audiences (majors, non-majors, and the public), and all genres of music. 

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music

Published by the Society for 17th-Century Music

Gramophone

Online classical music magazine includes reviews, playlists, blogs, and more.

Open Textbooks

Sound Reasoning: A New Way to Listen

Music Appreciation: History, Culture, and Context

Music Appreciation

Music in World Cultures

Cover image for Music on the Move Music on the Move

Understanding Basic Music Theory

Music Appreciation: Its Language, History and Culture Music Appreciation: Its Language, History and Culture

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

Project Hero Cover Music Appreciation

Open Music Theory

Music Appreciation (Georgia Gwinnett College) Music Appreciation

Fundamentals of Music Theory Fundamentals of Music Theory

Music Theory Music Theory

"Western Music History" icon Western Music History

 Understanding Music: Past and Present

"Introduction to Music Appreciation" icon Introduction to Music Appreciation

Resonances: Engaging Music in its Cultural Context ResonancesEngaging Music in its Cultural Context

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and CultureA Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture

Fundamentals, Function, and Form: Theory and Analysis of Tonal Western Art Music Fundamentals, Function, and Form: Theory and Analysis of Tonal Western Art Music

A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present icon A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present

Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its CultureAuld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture

MUS 101-Elliott Jones | Lumen Learning MUS 101-Elliott Jones | Lumen Learning

Music Fundamentals 2: Rhythm and Meter

Music Fundamentals 1: Pitch and Major Scales and Keys

The Physical Basis Of Music

Music and the Human Experience

 Cover image for OPEN MUSIC THEORY  OPEN MUSIC THEORY: Version 2

Sound Reasoning: A New Way to Listen

Music Appreciation 

Choral Techniques

Classical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and ChallengesClassical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges

Introduction to Music Appreciation

Music Inquiry by Catherine Schmidt-Jones Music Inquiry

book cover     Introduction to Music Appreciation 

Critical Listening: An Introduction to Classical Music

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book-cover Music 101

Two Centuries In One: Musical Romanticism & the Twentieth Century 

The Business of Music 

Book: Music Appreciation I (Lumen) Music Appreciation I (Lumen)

Book: Music Appreciation II (Lumen) Music Appreciation II (Lumen)

Music Theory Online 

Understanding Basic Music Theory

Exploring the Arts: A Brief Introduction to Art, Theatre, Music, and Dance

Memphis Blues and Soul: A Closer Look

music in general

American Song Online

The Foundations of Hip-Hop Encyclopedia

Welcome to the Beatles

Rare Book Room

A portal to digitized rare books and manuscripts at a variety of sites. 

Virtual Library of Musicology

The Bavarian State Library's central portal for music and musicology, allows you to access an extensive digital library containing the latest scholarly research and online resources.

Complete Marches of John Philip Sousa

The U.S. Marine Band offers free downloads of audio recordings, full scores, complete sets of instrumental parts, and more

Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians

From Iowa Public Radio

Music by Black Composers

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine's extensive collection of resources to spread awareness of and access to music by Black composers

African American Composer Initiative

Presents the works of living and historical African American composers in concert, shares video of these live concerts online, and commissions new compositions.

Living Composers Project

Information about the music of our time, verified by the composers themselves

New Music USA Online Library

A searchable database to digital scores, sound files and biographical information on contemporary American composers.

Institute of Jazz Studies

Located at Rutgers University, this is the largest and most comprehensive library and archive of jazz materials in the world.

History of Rock and Roll

AMERICAN ROCK & ROLL - HOW ROCK MUSIC ROLLED THE US INTO A MUSIC REVOLUTION

Tell It Like It Is: A History of Rhythm and Blues

Rhythm and Blues

Country Music

Country Music Timeline

No Future: The Conception and Evolution of Punk Music and Culture in the United States and Great Britain from 1965 to the Present

Hip-Hop Music Guide: History of Hip-Hop and Notable Artists

SUMMARY OF WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC HISTORY
by Marlon Feld

Carl Nielsen Edition - Download - The Royal Library

American Popular Music 

Country: Our National Soundtrack

Music Bookshelf (LibreTexts)

The Dictionary of Composers and their Music by Eric Gilder

Guide To Twentieth Century Composers by Mark Morris

Early Music

Baroque Music

Classical Period

Romantic Era

Modern Period

Music Links

Early Music 

Classical Composer History Timelines 

Classical music Navigator

Smalin’s YouTube Channel

History of Classical Music

Open Music Archives

Historic Music