About the Book

People and Music: An Appreciation and History

by J. Richard Freese, DMA

This Open Educational Resource (OER) was made possible by an OER Creation Mini-Grant from the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Markwood Center for Learning, Innovation, and Collaboration’s (CLIC) OER Committee: Janet Baltes, Travis Mann, Emily Moran, and Stephanie Warden. Special thanks goes to Emily, who helped shepherd this project through numerous iterations over multiple years.

For this most recent version, sincere thanks goes to Jax Kobielus for his editing work. Jax’s formatting and proofing have resulted in a text that is more welcoming, readable, and accurate.

Additional sincere thanks goes to Sara Valentiuk for making this resource available in Pressbooks and for her work cleaning up and formatting imagery and videos.

People and Music: An Appreciation and History is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license allows you to remix, tweak, and build upon this work, even commercially, as long as you credit this original source for the creation and license the new creation under identical terms.

Disclaimer: All remixed text, images, downloadable examples, and figures in this book are believed to be (after a reasonable investigation) either in the public domain, used by permission, or carry a compatible Creative Commons license. If you are the copyright owner of content in this book and you have not authorized the use of your work under these terms, please contact the author at jrfreese@wisc.edu to have the content removed.

A quick note from the author: as a point of interest, if you’re outside of the Universities of Wisconsin Independent Learning Program and using this text, I’d love to hear about it! You can reach me at jrfreese@wisc.edu.

Copyright 2023 by J. Richard Freese

Credits and licenses for images are listed under each image. Credits and licenses for music examples are listed in the Listening List.

Cover image by Matheus Viana