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A Compendium Of Voice-Leading Patterns From The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries To Play, Sing, And Transpose At The Keyboard, Derek Remeš
Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy
An original Compendium of baroque and classical voice-leading patterns offers a wealth of historically informed teaching materials for today's pedagogues. Drawing from recent scholarly trends in the German-language music-theoretical community, the historical approach offered here is at odds with many aspects of current Anglo-American music theory pedagogy. Chief among these is the absence of any reference to Roman numerals, chordal roots, or chordal inversion in the Compendium. Instead, a thoroughbass-centered approach is favored, in which the scale degree of the bassline is the primary analytical annotation. This encourages contrapuntal, rather than harmonic, considerations to come to the fore. The voice-leading …
Volume 33, Various Authors
Teaching With Chopsticks And A Rhythm Clock, Paula Telesco
Teaching With Chopsticks And A Rhythm Clock, Paula Telesco
Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy
When teaching rhythm, it can be difficult to convey the concept that beats are not just attack points but have a full duration, which can be divided into many parts; it can also be difficult for students to understand how those divisions and subdivisions do or do not coincide. I have created a number of rhythm clocks (attached) that include color-coded Ta ka di mi syllables (red) and 1 ee and uh counting syllables (blue) to show the division and subdivision of the beat into 2, 3, 4, and 6 parts, and to show simple and compound divisions and subdivisions …
Scale-Degrees Six And Seven In Minor, Stephen Gosden
Scale-Degrees Six And Seven In Minor, Stephen Gosden
Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy
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