Understanding Music, Books a la Carte Edition, 7th Edition

Listening with More Depth, More Focus, and More Knowledge

 

Understanding Music teaches students what to listen for in music, while offering instructors and students an economical option for the music appreciate course. Jeremy Yudkin’s text is a rich music appreciation program that supports the instructor’s ultimate goal of students actively listening to the music.

 

The new seventh edition has been revised from beginning to end, making the text more focused, more accessible, and more engaging with new and improved features. Additionally, the new MySearchLab with eText, an online program that includes an interactive etext, assessment, and help with research and writing, can now be packaged with this program to help students develop a firm understanding of music.

 

A better teaching and learning experience

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience— for you and your students. Here’s how:

• Personalize Learning — The new MySearchLab with eText delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• Improve Active Listening - The author brings the music to the foreground for the student with features like “Quick Listen”, helping students listen to and analyze the music.
• Engage Students — Just like the printed text, students can highlight and add notes to the eText found in MySearchLab. In addition to the “Listening Guides” and focus features on artists and events, the new “Performance in Context” feature highlights a significant performance space or musical venue.
• Support Instructors — With and updated Instructor’s Manual, MyTest, PowerPoints, and MySearchLab assessments, instructors have all the resources they need to teach this course.

Note: MySearchLab with eText does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab with eText, please visit www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase the a la carte version of the text + MySearchLab with eText.  ISBN-10: 020588718X / ISBN-13: 9780205887187

 

This Books a la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-holed punched, loose-leaf version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalize their book by incorporating their own notes and taking only the portion of the book they need to class — all at a fraction of the bound book price.