A Tool for Today's Students and Instructors
Transform your teaching through the rich content and responsive functionality that the A-R Music Anthology (www.armusicanthology.com) brings to music history and theory courses. Available exclusively online, ARMA is easy to use for in-person, online, or hybrid venues, and when it comes to assignments, your students have access to ARMA wherever they are. To take full advantage of ARMA, log into it to explore music scores, peer-reviewed articles, focused commentaries, and support pages, as well as its ability to accomodate various teaching styles.
Teaching Styles
As a digital publication, ARMA goes beyond printed books to offer many options that make it an effective tool in your classroom. Since it works on various platforms and with most commonly used browsers, ARMA can help you engage your students in ways that are not possible with a bound book. Because of this significant difference, ARMA can take your teaching to another, more interactive level and with that added impact, you can give your students a nuanced experience. First, immerse yourself in the digital milieu that shows ARMA’s features strongly.
Browser Tabs Instead of Post-Its
Let your browser serve your needs: Open as many tabs as you need to put ARMA’s contents at your fingertips. You will be a pro in the classroom as your use your browser to move from a resource page to a specific music score, an commentary on that score, and then onto the next topic. Your students will follow your ideas as you move between pages in ARMA dynamically.
Some instructors keep several browser tabs open so that they can refer to a music score, a video of a performance of that score, an article related to the music, and the notes they want to share with their students. ARMA makes it easy to harness media for your teaching when you use ARMA. This takes the music course into a new and enhanced environment, as ARMA lets you capture the imaginations of your students when you show them the ways music works. In this sense ARMA lets you build your own music history or music theory work station by having various, related resources at your fingertips in the tabs of your favorite browser.
Substance at your fingertips
ARMA offers substance with more than 50 peer-reviewed articles on various topics in music history and music theory. The articles range from 5,000 words to 12,000 words, and contain interactive bibliographies, music lists, and other details. More than that, each article is easy to navigate when you use the subheads linked to the first page of each article. The subhead links let you reach the specific content you want to emphasize with your students, so that you can use all or part of the articles or even build modules that let your students delve deeper into works and concepts that might receive only cursory treatment in a printed survey.
ARMA Offers More at No additional Cost
At no additional cost, you can give your students customized courses that meet their needs and, more importantly, shape them as musicians. It’s easy to manage the content by using the instructor login to refine your courses. That refinement is not just available when you set up the courses, but you can always return to your courses to update the content. If you find that your stuents are extremely responsive and want more material, you can add music scores, articles, and commentaries toyour courses in minutes to give your them additional content quickly. It’s all part of ARMA.
More for YOu, too
ARMA has more for you, too. In addition to its scores, articles, and commentaries, ARMA has other resources including:
Contents Guides are digital works thathow the ways you can integrate the materials in ARMA into your own presentations. Similarly Resource Pages focus on a topic with links to speific music scores, articles, and commentaries. In addition, the glossary offers concise definitions of selected terminology. Beyond those tools, the New Content page lists new and updated materials in ARMA as they are released.
your next steps To Success
With all that it brings your students, can you wait any longer to use ARMA to transform your teaching? Start now! Request your instructor login, explore the site with its responsive search utility, view the pre-set courses, build your own courses, invite your students: You will see a difference when you use ARMA!
