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Scott -- thank you for that clarification! That seems like a useful distinction, and I can imagine how the "departure/return" qualifiers are likely used. In a happy twist of fate, my library actually owns a copy of the Oxford handbook, so I'll pic…
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These are very helpful examples – thank you, all! I have a few thoughts to share: Background – I deliberately left this background out of my original post, but it might be more useful than I thought. I came across a chord progression that appears t…
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Thanks, Megan -- these are great options, too! That Sarah Vaughan solo is sweet, and I really like the idea of a "choose your own adventure" assignment with Ella. Really appreciate the suggestions!
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Thanks, Amy and Joon (and Eric, by proxy!) -- these are great suggestions. I've listened to them both, and I think the Sermonette solo might fit my students this semester a little more naturally than the Midnight Walk solo...but I think I'll go and…
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Enoch -- That's a very interesting idea! I think that our music ed faculty might explode at that prospect...in fact, the thought of adjusting prerequisites or much of our upper-level scheduling kind of makes my head spin, too! But, I will keep tha…
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I don't know of such a document, but it sounds like a great idea. Would NASM have anything along those lines, by chance? It seems like this would be very useful for all music disciplines -- I know our performance faculty routinely have a hard time…
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Thanks, Jason and Yosef -- I really appreciate your responses. Jason: As far as I can tell, they're not getting rid of EBSCO entirely. It seems that there's some way in which librarians can pick and choose certain aspects of that bundle, though I'…
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> Even the syllables for sixteenth notes (1-e-&-a) and for eighth-note triplets (1-&-a) are far from being universal, whereas numbers would be widely understood. Even though I still prefer the 1-e-&-a system, Rich's point is valid. …
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Similar to Jason's post above, I was going to suggest subscripts, with the 1-e-&-a system -- eliminates the need for any dots/decimal-looking-things at all. I like the familiarity of these syllables, and I like the fact that it easily groups th…
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I do think that SMT should consider prohibiting those who present at a given year's meeting from proposing the next year, which AMS does. And that seems easy to implement -- during the online proposal process, there could be a question that says "…
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Two other issues to throw into the conversation: 1) In regard to Danny's point about citing an interest group presentation differently than a presentation on the main program...this is certainly true, and appropriate. However, at my school, I'm no…
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Brad -- Thanks for those examples. Good stuff! I was wondering about "Let Down," too -- I don't know the song, but when I listened to it for the first time, I didn't hear anything I'd call a polyrhythm (at least, not in the same sense as The Nat…
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Sorry -- that sentence (fragment) near the end should say "Or even an English list of Google Translate-generated translations of Chinese-to-English music theoretical terms."
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A dialogue is certainly worthwhile, and I'd also suggest that interested parties consider taking a drive (or public bus) to Ferguson for a lunch or dinner (or if you do decide to have a roundtable, maybe consider having it in Ferguson). The town co…
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I'm very interested in this, too, Jonathan -- thank you for beginning this thread. I certainly don't want to hijack it by adding my own wish list...but I'll put one additional criterion here, if you don't mind: the ability to be customized by the …
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Sorry to disappear from this thread -- I'm still getting used to the "new" (to me) format of this discussion forum. Anyway, yes, my percentages are completely ill-defined. I wish I had a way of saying 75%/25% is the cutoff for me to call it an arr…
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I claim no authority on these terms, but I do differentiate between the following four words: 1) Instrumentation 2) Transcription/Orchestration 3) Arrangement 4) Re-composition For me, "Instrumentation" is not an activity as much as the others ar…
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