A Learning Pathway

The resources that accompany The Enjoyment of Music have been conceived to be an essential part of the pedagogy of the book and designed to provide a learning pathway to help students build and practice their listening skills.

Norton Illumine Ebook

Norton’s high quality content shines brighter through engaging and motivational features that illuminate core concepts for students in a supportive, accessible, and low-stakes environment. Embedded Check Your Understanding questions and interactive exercises, as well as redesigned interactive Listening Guides, offer a seamless marriage between the reading and listening experience.

• At the beginning of each chapter, students encounter a “First, listen” interactive that engages them with the music and gets them listening before they even start reading.
• Every section ends with a few Check Your Understanding questions to ensure students have understood what they’ve just read and motivate them to keep working.
• Newly redesigned and now embedded into the ebook, interactive Listening Guides walk students through each featured piece of music and ensure they are hearing the important elements in each work as they listen. 

Tutorials

Assignable tutorials offer students low-stakes opportunities to hone their understanding of the elements of music and develop their ear as they listen to each featured piece of music. 

• Materials of Music tutorials help students understand the elements of music with interactive questions.
• Newly assignable What to Listen For tutorials help students focus their attention on the most important elements in each featured piece of music. 

InQuizitve

InQuizitive offers students low-stakes opportunities to put their listening skills to the test and understand chapter content. Through a variety of question types, answer-specific feedback, and game-like elements such as the ability to wager points, students are motivated to keep working as they build their listening skills.

• For the Fifth Edition, the Listening and Chapter InQuizitive activities have been combined into one activity for each chapter. 

Listening Challenge Activities

These low-stakes activities offer a capstone activity for each part in the book, helping students put their listening skills to the test. Students encounter an unfamiliar musical selection from each era explored in the book and work through a set of exercises to identify the piece, composer, and genre. 

• These Listening Challenge activities offer a digital, assignable version of the Listening Challenge activities found at the end of each part in the book.