HOW TO USE THE CLASSICAL MUSIC ONLINE LIBRARY, through the WMU Music & Dance Library website:

This semester, audio examples are available online through the WMU Music & Dance Library website.

To connect to this audio website site, you need to know your WMU Bronco NetID Username and Password (the same ones that you use to access your WMU e-mail). If you do not know this information, or if you have trouble logging on or following the instructions below, contact the WMU Computer Help Desk at online at http://www.wmich.edu/oit/helpdesk/index.html or call (269) 387-4357.

Please print out these instructions and follow them carefully.

STEP 1:

- Go to the WMU Music & Dance Library website at http://www.wmich.edu/library/music/index.php

- Click on the "Classical Music Library" link, as seen circled in the webshot below:

STEP 2:

When you see the login screen shown below, type in your WMU Bronco NetID Username and Password and then click the "Connect" button:

STEP 3:

When you get to the main screen, choose either of the "Course Folder" links, and then click on the "Music 1700 (Musical Styles and Structures)" folder

STEP 4:

After clicking on the "MUSIC 1700 (Jacobson)" folder, you will see a list similar to the one below (but for MUS1700) with pre-set playlists for Chapters 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the textbook (Note that there are no online listening examples for "Chapter 2-Non Western" or "Chapter 9- Modern Popular Music"):

STEP 5:

To see the contents in a specific playlist, click on the "i" circle-icon next to the playlist you want to listen to (see circled icon in the Step 4 picture above), and a list of specific audio examples will appear. Here is what you will see if you click on the "i" icon for the "MUS1500 Chapter 3 (Medieval)" link:

STEP 6:

When you click on the title of the specific piece you want to listen to, the following type of playback window will appear, with buttons that allow you to "Play," "Pause," "Stop," "Go to Start," or "Go to End" of the selected example. Here is what you will see if you click on the ""Gregorian Chant/Haec Dies" link:

You do not need to listen to every moment of every audio example in the lists--try to get the general idea of what each piece sounds like, and what makes each of them distinct.

When you listen to the example be sure to look at the Music Guide for that example in the textbook.