If you experience difficulties studying chapters from A History of Western Music you could use the following approach:
Did you buy the hard-cover edition? Then
- Go to the site of the publisher www.wwnorton.com
- Log in with your account
- Search for the book A History of Western Music
- Enter the Study Space
- Choose the chapter you want to study
If not, use the material available on moodle.skole.nl (not the full package, but useful).
- Start with listening to the musical examples, pay attention to composer, composition genre, titles
- Use the flash cards, they provide key terms with definitions. Flash cards can be downloaded.
- Use the multiple choice questions:
collect the correct answers,
combine the questions with the correct answer: in that way you get a list of key sentences with a lot of information,
print the list of key sentences
another way is to make screenshots of each question with the correct answer displayed (cmd+shift+4 on Apple), the image is placed on your desktop - print the chapter outline:
use markers with different colors to mark
persons
events
geographical locations
key terms and so on - Read the chapter from the book and make a list of:
red printed words in the margin
bold printed words in the main text
titles of sections and paragraphs
print the list - Try to make a graphical representation our your info in the form of a mind map or concept map
CMapTools is a perfect and free tool to do this. - If your Concept Map is ready, print it and put it on the wall, preferably a place where you are passing by regularly (fridge :-), kitchen, couch)
- Try to explain the mind map to friends, fellow students to check if you understand what's in and on it. Or, even better: Let your friends or fellow students ask questions about the Concept Map you made!! :-)
