Columbia University Record Vol. 24-hours a day, wherever a computer may be. The musical terms in Sonic Glossary which provide the foundation of music theory, have for generations bewildered students and are almost impossible to learn through traditional study.
Music provides the focus for a wide variety of contextual information.
The brain child of Michael Von der Linn, a graduate student in musicology, the Sonic Glossary has been an ongoing project led by Ian Bent, the Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music. Depending on its level of complexity, each term has a varied play time. These were the first terms defined in the Sonic Glossary. Currently there are 22 terms authored by eight instructors. By next summer, the goal is to have 40 available to Music Hum students online.