ARMA Offers a Multi-Author, Customizable Text for Music History and Theory
About ARMA's Contents
The A-R Music Anthology (ARMA) contains more than 650 music scores, 135+ commentaries that cover more than 180 pieces of music, and over 60 peer-reviewed articles on music history and theory. The articles are organized by type so that you can find the kinds of material you need for your courses:
- Surveys/Overviews;
- Genres & Forms;
- Music Theory Overviews;
- Major Composers; and
- Special Topics
Courses ARMA Supports
You can use ARMA's rich content of scores, articles, and commentaries for various music courses. The courses instructors make engaging with ARMA include:
- Music History Survey;
- Music History Review;
- Introduction to Music Literature;
- Music Analysis (at various levels);
- Courses on specific topics, like Black music traditions, women composers, American musical styles; and
- Seminars on special topics, including composers, like Bach, genres, like motets, and others
Our resource Resource Pages offer more information about specific topics that you may consider for webinars or courses. Most of all, you can use ARMA to adapt to meet your students' needs for music history and theory courses.
Commentaries
In addition to articles, ARMA contains commentaries on its music scores. Commentaries are shorter than articles, and on the average are three to four pages in length (approximately 1600 words). As we state in the overview of commentaries, our four-part format identifies the work; sets it in context; explores the structure; and explains its significance. You can find commentaries by using the term "commentary" in the search bar. Commentaries are available individually (like articles) and also appended to the scores they cover.
Resources for Integrating the Anthology into Your Program
Please use the links on our resource page to find features at our Anthology site to integrate the Anthology into your program.
For Instructors at Schools with Site Licenses
If your school has a current site license, your students do not pay to access your courses. After making your course, create a course link and share it with your students. Use the linking instructions to make a course link or contact us for assistance.
White Papers on Digital Publishing Strategies
Please download our white paper on navigating the shift from print to digital resources. Use this white paper to explore the advantages found in the digital world, especially the A-R Online Music Anthology.
We invite authors to contribute their best articles on music history and theory to our online textbook. We encourage new work and also welcome articles revised for the internet. Please use our strategies for digital collaborations to create engaging articles for ARMA.
Instructional Videos
Use our Instructional Videos for instructors. This is your quick way to set up your courses expertly and take advantage of other features of the A-R Online Music Anthology.
If you have questions about using ARMA, please send us an email.