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Undergraduate Learning and Teaching In The Trenches - The Development of a Peer Run Music Tutoring Center
No full textThe Improvisation of Figuration Preludes and the Enduring Value of Bach Family Pedagogy
Get PDFThis article reveals how figuration preludes are flexible tonal models that provide a dynamic way for students to engage with musical structure. The variability of these models allows for musical creativity through progressive stages of mastery. When students encode voice-leading principles from these models into hand positions at the keyboard, they group discrete information into larger patterns, uniting voice leading and harmony. The Bach family pedagogy for improvising figuration preludes can provide benefits to students today, particularly since it anticipates aspects of modern pedagogy
Analysis as Multiplicity
Get PDFThis article addresses a central concern of everyone who teaches music theory: When we think about analyzing a piece of music, we should always be prepared to think about what kind of an activity analysis is, what it intends to do for us, and what the appropriate means are for carrying it out. An important goal is to enrich our perspective of what is possible within the context of the music: this is true whether we are coming from the standpoint of listeners, composers, interpreters, or improvisers. We should step back, too, and consider seriously how a creative reading of a musical work transcends the notes themselves to account for things like historical contexts and the range of previous performance practices that have affected subsequent interpretation. At the same time, we might strive to consider equally seriously the kinds of analytic methodologies that have been brought to bear on the music, and how those methodologies have worked both to illuminate various aspects of the music\u27s structure and possibly to foreclose alternative readings; that is, to limit how we might interpret the music. When we analyze music as improvisers - shifting our focus from interpretive to productive orientations - these kinds of considerations can become even more pronounced
Backlog 2013
Get PDFThe 2013 Backlog yearbook of Lipscomb University.https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/backlogs/1036/thumbnail.jp
Modernizing the Minuet Composition Project
Get PDFThis article re-visits the tried-and-true exercise and updates it with one that relies on one of the few remaining popular genres that employ conservative common-practice harmony: the college fight song chorus. Rogers takes the reader through a step-by-step working method, interweaving her students\u27 attempts at satisfying the project\u27s requirements