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Name: What Kind of Music is That?
ID: m11421
Language: English (en)
Summary: An explanation of some of the terms used to classify music.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: atonal, chromatic, classical music, diatonic, folk music, jazz, modal, Non-Western music, polytonal, tonal, twelve-tone, Western music, world music
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.12 (history)
First publication date: Apr 22, 2003 12:00 am -0500
Last revision to module: Jan 18, 2013 5:32 am -0600

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Version History

Version: 1.13 Feb 17, 2013 7:07 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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took down call for study participants
Version: 1.12 Jan 18, 2013 5:32 am -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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added call for research study participants
Version: 1.11 Mar 11, 2011 7:47 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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removed from survey
Version: 1.10 Apr 12, 2010 8:47 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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linked to survey
Version: 1.9 Jan 2, 2010 4:08 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Added Google analytics code
Version: 1.8 Jan 10, 2007 8:58 am -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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added links
Version: 1.7 Jan 4, 2007 12:07 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Updated links and made small changes to clarify text.
Version: 1.6 Mar 13, 2006 12:09 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Added some links and small text changes.
Version: 1.5 May 24, 2005 3:09 pm -0500 by Charlet Reedstrom
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update to cnxml-0.5
Version: 1.4 Feb 4, 2005 2:39 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added polytonal and twelve-tone, and added links
Version: 1.3 Dec 11, 2003 2:20 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Added links
Version: 1.2 Aug 27, 2003 10:37 am -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added keywords. Added paragraph on diatonic and chromatic music.
Version: 1.1 Jul 3, 2003 12:00 am -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
New module

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