Some Possible Uses
This project is designed for music faculty who want a wider variety of examples than are commonly available in textbooks. Each example has a sound file (.mov), a printable score (.pdf) and a score with an attached sound file (.swf). The site is openly available for use in class and for review outside of class. The following are some suggestions for how the individual files can be used.
1. Print files for students to use for harmonic analysis exercises.
2. Music history professors can use files for style or composer identification
exercises. None of the .pdfs have titles attached so that can be used with no
alteration necessary.
3. Professors who would like to add notes and comments to the score can download
the .pdf, open it in a graphics program, add comments, save it as a .jpg file,
and then be able to put it on a webpage, embed it in Blackboard or WebCT, or
distribute it like any other image file.
.MOV
1. Sound files can be played in class for ear-training exercises.
2. Sound files can be downloaded and posted on the web or burned on to CDs.
.SWF
1. The .swf files allow the viewer to hear the sound and scroll through the score simultaneously with the ability to pause and resume as needed.
2. The .swf files are placed in .html files for ease of scrolling in the longer examples. To download the .swf file itself, not embedded in the .html file, substitute a .swf extension for the .html extension. (For example, use www.colleges.org/~music/theory/1scales/ScA.swf instead of www.colleges.org/~music/theory/1scales/ScA.html.)
Blackboard and Course Management Systems
Prof. Leigh Van Handel of the University of Oregon provides this example of using the database files in the context of the Blackboard course management system. Blackboard only allows one file to be embedded per quiz question so Prof. Van Handel saved the .pdf as a .jpg, marked specific sections and embedded it in a multiple choice test. To hear the example the student clicks the link to the .mov file. The .mov file did not have to be downloaded, it is just referenced in its original location on the ACS server.
Please send additional suggestions for use to gray@colleges.org