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The intro/verse of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Here Comes my Girl," oscillates between A major and B major over an A pedal. Locally, the progression sounds like I to V/V and back again, but the chorus establishes E major as tonic, causing us t…
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Auralia and Musition from Rising software will allow staff notation, although it's not specifically drag and drop. You might also try flat.io and see if that could serve your needs. For the recording, can you have them record into Audacity and subm…
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Hello Derek. I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can do this with moodlecloud (The standalone, free version of Moodle.) You might not need the entire LMS feature, but you can create and track quizzes here. I used to do our placement test this way, an…
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Hello Rick, As a member of the Program Committee for Pedagogy Into Practice (Teaching Music in the Twenty-FIRST Century), I can tell you that many of the papers, in fact, DID address this topic--either directly or under the umbrella of of other ski…
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Hello Danielle, I tried Teoria for our school, and found that I much prefer ToneSavvy. (http://www.tonesavvy.com . It used to be called "Java Music Theory.") The two most significant factors in my decision: 1. Teoria doesn't randomize well. For exam…
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Hi Jose, Thank you for sharing this information. I recommend using Noteflight for this application; for my needs, it's much less labor intensive. The link below is for an analysis assignment for Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, K 618. If you click the Pla…
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Hi Tim, There's a very clear example in Schumann, Kinderscenen, No. 11--both of the "Schneller" sections start in e minor and tonicize C major. Jena Root
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I wonder if this mindset comes from standardized testing, and the resultant (and unfortunate) "teach-to-the-test" mentality. Very often, I see students who just want to be able to stack notes and slap a label on them, without the "bother" of putting…
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Conor, What about basic Kodaly? It was designed for children, of course, but many of the concepts can work well for adult singers with little to no training.
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5. It seems that older generations are always concerned about their "canon" disappearing - students are no longer reading Homer! They don't know who Stravinsky is! Some of my students don't know who the Beatles are. That worries me more. Jena
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Hi David, See page 2 of this worksheet (which you're welcome to print and use with your students. There's a treble staff under each system for the purpose of sketching the chords in simple position.). Beethoven, op. 2, no.2 goes from A major to F ma…
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Stephen, Did you comment using your real name? If so, it hasn't posted yet.
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Good morning Charles, Check out "Look into My Eyes" by Janelle Monae. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6co4_mbook It is an absolutely stunning song that alternates between a min9 and f min9, and also contains some really interesting uses of flat-II…
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Thank you Jenny for taking action on this. From the way you describe it, I'm guessing that you distributed the survey to your music colleagues at app. There's no reason why we couldn't send it out to SMT/CMS members and AP readers. In doing so, I th…
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