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Experience Music offers a listening experience―first hearing, featured listening, and finale―along with Spotify playlists and interactive listening guides to motivate and engage students. With McGraw Hill’s Connect® students can come to class confident and prepared, as they develop the active listening skills they need for success in the course and a lifetime of more meaningful musical experiences.


McGraw Hill’s Connect® offers a learning environment for students to actively engage in listening to music and build their vocabulary in this course area. Students connect to music through interactive assignments such as listening experience activities and hearing the difference comparison questions. Students can access and stream music through the interactive listening guides or through embedded audio players in eBooks.


Instructors can assess the development of students’ listening skills―online and at any time―so that they don’t have to wait for a midterm for an update on their progress.

Katherine Charlton Calkins teaches in the music department at Mt. San Antonio College where she spent eight years on the all-college general education committee and then served as chair of the music department for the following ten years. During a yearlong sabbatical in 2007-2008 she studied women composers and compiled biographies, recordings, and listening guides, which she made available to her colleagues to help them add more women to their music appreciation and history classes. As a performer, she has a degree in classical guitar from California State University at Fullerton. She toured in Southern France and Tuscany, playing lute with an early music group led by her late, first husband Andrew Charlton and his friend Gloria Ramsey, both well known in the field of early music. Calkins also played percussion and toured in Japan with the CSUF Wind Ensemble. She got her M.A. in music history and has continued with further graduate study in that same field. As a teacher, she started the guitar program at Mt. San Antonio College, where she continues to teach music history, music appreciation, and history of rock music. Her first book, Rock Music Styles: A History, is now out in its ninth edition, published by McGraw Hill Higher Education. Experience Music is her second book.