Musical Cultures of the World

This website is a resource for students of MUSU 222: Musical Cultures of the World. Students will be sharing multimedia in Blackboard journals, discussion, and wikis and using the library for streaming audio/video and research.

Click on the week's topic for resources, videos, sound clips, and presentations.

The Elements of Music

  • Rhythm

  • Melody

  • Harmony and Form

  • Music Notation

  • Keys and the Circle of Fifths

  • Sound, Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color

  • Voices

  • Instruments

Using Multimedia in Blackboard Discussion, Journals, and Wikis

  • Tutorial for Blackboard Multimedia Responses - See the following tutorial for how to create multimedia responses in Blackboard using "hot link" to websites, inserting images and sound files, as well as embed YouTube videos, Google Slides, Prezis, and PowerPoint MP4 Videos.

Google Presentation