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Spring 1995

TLTP

In 1993, a consortium of Music Departments was awarded a grant under the UK Funding Councils' Teaching and Learning Technology Programme to develop computer-based learning materials for use by undergraduate music students. The TLTP Music Consortium is co-ordinated from Lancaster University, where CTI Music is based, and the two programmes have benefited from a close association. Around 20 music lecturers in institutions throughout the UK have worked with four software developers who were based at Belfast, Lancaster, Leeds and Southampton.

The nine modules listed in our first newsletter are well under way. Many are now nearing completion and will be available at the start of the next academic year. In addition to these, a tool has also been developed to allow music lecturers to write their own analytical or critical text and synchronise it with a commercial CD performance of the work under study. This can be used as a stand-alone facility or it can be used to produce CD-tours for incorporation into any of the Musicological modules.

All of the ten modules have the same basic hardware requirements: Macintosh LC475, 4 Mb with 640 x 480 colour screen or PC 486, 8 Mb, Windows 3.x or higher with 14" colour screen (SVGA) and headphones or loudspeakers. All are available to institutions of Higher Education funded by the U.K. Funding Councils. A nominal charge will be made to cover production costs, distribution materials, postage and packing.

The modules are listed below, with details of their expected use.

Enquiries should be made to:

Dr Anthony Pople, Music Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW
Telephone: 01524 593772/4
Fax: 01524 593939
Email: TLTmusic@lancaster.ac.uk

Basic Musicianship and Studio Techniques

1: Basic Musicianship I: elements of aural perception

Course and Level: Music undergraduates (but suitable for most levels of musical education).
Brief Description: Practical exercises in interval, chord, cadence and rhythm recognition.
No. of hours of teaching material: Two semester course.
Anticipated Delivery Dates: October 1995 (Macintosh), Academic year 95 - 96 (PC version).
Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, MIDI Interface, 'General MIDI' synthesiser.
Distribution Media: Available on 1.4 Mb floppy disks.

2: Basic Musicianship II: fundamental theory

Course and Level: Music undergraduates, A-level students.
Brief Description: Learning material for developing a basic understanding of four-part tonal harmony; mainly expository material with embedded exercises.
No. of hours of teaching material: Four semester course.
Anticipated Delivery Dates: October 1995 (Macintosh), Academic year 95 - 96 (PC version).
Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, MIDI Interface, 'General MIDI' synthesiser.
Distribution Media: Available on 1.4 Mb floppy disks.

3: Introduction to Studio Techniques

Course and Level: Music undergraduates.
Brief Description: Reference material on underlying acoustical theory of studio equipment, its function and operation; to be used as an adjunct to a taught, practical-based course.
No. of hours of teaching material: Two semester course.
Anticipated Delivery Dates: October 1995 (PC version), Academic year 95 - 96 (Macintosh).
Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, CD-ROM drive, MIDI Interface, 'General MIDI' synthesiser.
Distribution Media: CD-ROM with paper supporting materials.

Musicological Topics

4: Techniques of Source Study

Course and Level: Music undergraduates.
Brief Description: Interlinked expository material about documentary sources and notation from middle ages to 19th century, with practical exercises in the transcription of medieval notation, forming part of seminar driven course.
No. of hours of teaching material: One semester course.
Anticipated Delivery Date: Academic year 95 - 96 (Macintosh & PC versions).
Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, CD-ROM drive.
Distribution Media: CD-ROM with paper supporting materials.

5: Techniques of Music Analysis

Course and Level: Music undergraduates
Brief Description: Interactive tasks in Schenkerian analysis and post-tonal analysis with introductory explanations and background material; to be used as self-assessed exercises for self-paced learning in an integrated course on analysis.
No. of hours of teaching material: One semester course.
Anticipated Delivery Dates: October 1995 (PC version), Academic year 95 - 96 (Macintosh).
Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, CD-ROM drive, MIDI Interface, 'General MIDI' synthesiser.
Distribution Media: CD-ROM with paper supporting materials.

6: Introduction to Medieval Music

Course and Level: Music undergraduates
Brief Description: Resource material to allow the user to develop an understanding of medieval musical culture; an encyclopždic browsing environment which would be integrated into a lecture or seminar-driven course.
No. of hours of teaching material: Two semester course.
Anticipated Delivery Dates: October 1995 (PC version), Academic year 95 - 96 (Macintosh).
Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, CD-ROM drive, MIDI Interface, 'General MIDI' synthesiser.
Distribution Media: CD-ROM with paper supporting materials.

7: Introduction to 19th-century Music: the cultural context

Course and Level: Music undergraduates
Brief Description: Early 19th-century resource material, including guided analyses of set works; an encyclopždic browsing environment which would be integrated into a lecture or seminar-driven course.
No. of hours of teaching material: Two semester course.
Anticipated Delivery Dates: October 1995 (Macintosh), Academic year 95 - 96 (PC version).
Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, 16-bit sound, CD-ROM drive, MIDI Interface, 'General MIDI' synthesiser.
Distribution Media: CD-ROM with paper supporting materials.
Customisation/Flexibility: Material, including new CD-tours (see CD-Tour Generator entry), may be added to this module by receiving institutions. Changes to standard text only by agreement with authors.

8: Introduction to 20th-century Music: the cultural context

Course and Level: Music undergraduates.
Brief Description: 20th-century resource material, including guided analyses of set works.
This is an encyclopždic browsing environment which would be integrated into a lecture or seminar- driven course.
No. of hours of teaching material: Two semester course.
Anticipated Delivery Dates: October 1995 (Macintosh), Academic year 95 - 96 (PC version).
Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, 16-bit sound, CD-ROM drive, MIDI Interface, 'General MIDI' synthesiser.
Distribution Media: CD-ROM with paper supporting materials.
Customisation/Flexibility: Material, including new CD-tours (see CD-Tour Generator entry), may be added to this module by receiving institutions. Changes to standard text only by agreement with authors.

9: Introduction to Opera

Course and Level: Music undergraduates.
Brief Description: This is an encyclopždic browsing environment which would be integrated into a lecture or seminar-driven course.
No. of hours of teaching material: Two semester course integrated with seminars.
Anticipated Delivery Dates: October 1995 (Macintosh), Academic year 95 - 96 (PC versions).
Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, CD-ROM drive, MIDI Interface, 'General MIDI' synthesiser.
Distribution Media: CD-ROM with paper supporting materials.

10: CD-Tour Generator

Brief Description: A software package for the generation of basic CD-tours (an analytical text synchronised to a chosen CD).
Can be used by lecturers to produce either stand-alone CD-tours or tours for incorporation into one of the browsing environments. The package is for use with commercially available CDs.
No. of hours of teaching material: unlimited.
Anticipated Delivery Date: October 1995 (Macintosh & PC version). Minimum Hardware Requirements: base machine, CD-ROM drive.
Distribution Media: 1.4 Mb floppy disk.