World Music in Contemporary Life
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Music in Our World Chapters

1. improve conceptual clarity,
2. identify and define important concepts,
3. distill text-based information into concise, understandable units,
4. identify relative importance of concepts - embeddedness,
5. interconnect text, graphics, audio and video to embrace all learning styles,
6. identify relationships between and among concepts,
7. embed multimedia objects to engage and reinforce student learning,
8. allow nonlinear navigation and access to smart pathways empowering student interests,
9. allow nonlinear navigation and access to smart pathways empowering student interests and faculty lectures and presentations.

The knowledge webs in Music 345 are discipline-specific ontologies of music. Read them in two formats; first, central concept displayed for learning and second, central concept masked for confirmation of learning. Learn concept meaning, learn that the knowledge webs are a way to "see the information as the professor sees the information," or read the knowledge webs to inform your understanding of the textbook concept information.

These Knowledge Web files of the Music in Our World textbook chapters are clickable image maps. Studying the knowledge webs begins by clicking on the respective title. (1) Click on the chapter you wish to browse below; then, (2) click on any concept in the table. (3) On the clickable Knowledge Webs, click on any of the related (at the clock points) bold concepts to go to that concept in another graphic frame or on the dark or light circle (on the central concept that is showing) to view the text or picture associated with that concept. If your window is large enough, the text and picture associated with the central concept will show automatically below the knowledge web. If there is a world wide web link, an "L" will be shown on the right and below the central concept. Click on the "L" to go to the www page.

The table that appears after you click on the chapter title has several columns. The column on the left contains the important course concepts. The column on the right is labeled "Embeddedness". For these knowledge webs, the notion of "Embeddedness" refers to the relative importance of the respective concept. Concepts with high numbers are more important than concepts with low numbers. Therefore, "Embeddedness" refers to how important the concept is for study, learning, and testing purposes. Second, each unit of the course (Elements of Music, Arab Music, Early Music, and others) has two knowledge webs that are exactly the same -- one is shown with the "central concept displayed" and the other is shown with the "central concept masked". The "central concept displayed" web should be used to study the course material, while the "central concept masked" web should be used to test the student's knowledge of the course content. This method of presentation is similar to "flash-card" study and helps students remember the content of the card. Explore, browse, learn, and enjoy the course information.