Dear students of MUSC101, distance-learning.

Below is the message that I normally send to students by e-mail at the beginning of the term.


Enrollment and access to Sakai

If you are pre-enrolled, you should be able to access the materials on Sakai by the first day of classes.

If you enroll on the first day of classes or later, you may have to wait 2 days before you can access the materials on Sakai.

In either case, keep checking Sakai to see whether you can get in.

My primary purpose in sending this message is to make sure you know what materials you have to purchase for the course and to give you access to at least some of the online course materials while you are waiting to get onto Sakai.

Materials to purchase:

You need to have these three items:
  1. Forney, Kristine; Machlis, Joseph.  The Enjoyment of Music.  10th ed., shorter version.* New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. BE SURE TO GET THE 10TH EDITION, SHORTER VERSION.
  2. The above textbook is supposed to includes a Student Resource DVD; make sure you have this additional DVD with your book order.
  3. The Norton Recordings. 10th ed., shorter version. [4 CDs].*  New York: Sony Music Special Products, 2007. NOTE: These recordings apparently are routinely sold with the textbook, but check to be sure. With the Forney textbook you should have these four Norton Recordings CDs as well as the Student Resource DVD mentioned just above. (Furthermore, given what is required by the quiz-assignments in this course, students should not rely on a subscription to Norton's online listening lab as a substitute for the Norton CDs, because the audio selections with the listening lab are incomplete.)
Wherever you order these materials from, make sure that you get all three, and that the dealer doesn't send you more than one copy of each.

If you go to the UDel Bookstore's website (http://www.udel.edu/bookstore), after you enter the course information and choose "View Textbook List", you'll see a set of three packages to choose from (as of Aug. 18, 2010):


NORTON SCORES+ENJOY.OF MUSIC-4 CDS (SW)
FORNEY
Edition:10TH 07
Publisher:NORTON
ISBN: 9780393107586
REQUIRED PACKAGE
  Select this Item
 
  New
$53.35
 
  Used  if available
$40.00

ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC,SHORTER-W/DVD+4 CDS
FORNEY
Edition:10TH 07
Publisher:NORTON
ISBN: 9780393174236
REQUIRED PACKAGE
  Select this Item
 
  New
$116.00
 
  Used  if available
$87.00

ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC,SHORTER-W/DVD
FORNEY
Edition:10TH 07
Publisher:NORTON
ISBN: 9780393174205
BOOKSTORE RECOMMENDED
  Select this Item
 
  New
$82.65
 
  Used  if available
$62.00


Look for the item called "ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC,SHORTER-W/DVD+4 CDS" (2nd in this chart).  This apparently is the only "required" package that you should get (if you order from the UDel Bookstore) in order to have all the materials listed above. The other two packages listed at the bookstore are the textbook with DVD as one item and the 4 CDs as another  item (mistakenly labeled "Norton Scores").

You can use the ISBN numbers(s) to order item(s) from other vendors, such as Amazon, etc.  You can also order these items directly from the publisher W.W. Norton.

You have also the option of purchasing a subscription to an online version of the textbook. See the syllabus/policies page for the course -- linked below -- for more information about the materials.  If you buy the textbook subscription online from Norton, you'll need to purchase the CD and DVD separately from Norton, too.

In any case,  you need to get the textbook, DVD, and CDs right away.  If you're having trouble getting them, you need to contact me right away, too.
Online materials to get you started:

The rest of the materials for the course are on Sakai or linked from there.

So that you can at least see some of the online materials for the course while waiting for access to Sakai, go to this URL:

http://copland.udel.edu/~lneff/temphtml/

You'll see these Sakai files temporarily listed there:
(Please note that I may need to tweak one or more of these pages a bit before the first day of classes. In general, be sure to note the dates in the calendar at the bottom of the syllabus on that day to see whether any of them have changed and note them all down in your summer schedule.)

Most of the links in these files will not work, because you need to be in Sakai; but you should be able to get enough of an idea of things to get started. I am still tweaking the Sakai materials, so the above web pages may be changed slightly by the time the first day of classes comes around.

Once you get your bookstore materials and have read the above web pages, please begin the readings. Also, the first assignment involves listening to a piece on the Student Resource DVD (Britten's /Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra/), so you should study that as your first listening exercise.  The first assignment is due on June 15.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Again, welcome to the course!

lkn
-- 
Lyle K. Neff -- mailto:lneff@udel.edu
http://copland.udel.edu/~lneff

Last updated:  Aug. 18, 2010