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• Maybe Garrett's article will address this, but the biggest issue I have had using mastery learning in aural skills has been the academic calendar and the university's grading requirements. So, if a student doesn't master a skill by the time of the f…

  in Alternatives To Standards-Based Grading? Comment by Brent Yorgason September 2019
• It was also featured on NPR last week:  http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=545710598 I almost jumped out of my seat when I heard the words "music theorist" on the radio. 

  in Betsy Marvin assists with brain surgery! Comment by Brent Yorgason September 2017
• The approach that Robert suggests is actually pretty logical, I think--with the decimal separating the beat number from the beat division number. I've used it before.  1.1 = beat 1, division 1 2.3 = beat 2, division 3 4.4 = beat 4, division 4 Even…

  in Language for describing positions in a measure of 4/4 Comment by Brent Yorgason April 2017
• Lots of Chopin Mazurkas! op. 6 no. 1; op. 7, no. 1; op. 24, no. 1, op. 24, no. 3; op. 24, no. 4; op. 30, no. 1; op. 33, no. 3; op. 41, no. 2; op. 50, no. 1; op. 63, no. 2; and op. 67, no. 2 are the ones that I identified with a quick perusal.

  in Looking for First Phrases that Begin with a Dominant Chord Comment by Brent Yorgason November 2016
• Here's IMDB's list of credited uses of Schubert's music, and there are perhaps a dozen references to songs from Winterreise: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006280/ However, there are also a lot of uncredited uses of Schubert's music as underscoring, pa…

  in Works influenced by Winterreise Comment by Brent Yorgason November 2016
• Carl Maria von Weber's "Perpetuum Mobile" has a lot of spinning passages in it, and I'm sure the same is true of many moto perpetuo-type pieces. A related category you might want to look at is music evoking machinery. Composers in the "Machine Age" …

  in Spinning sounds Comment by Brent Yorgason October 2016
• Mark Wells's dissertation on this topic ("A Generalized Intervallic Approach to Metric Conflict") was recently listed on MTO here: http://www.mtosmt.org/docs/diss-index.php?id=492

  in This year's conferences and Lewin's TMSPS Comment by Brent Yorgason April 2016
• Thanks, Gary. I've prepared my report from the references on these pages, and we'll see what happens!

  in Intervallic vs. Scale-degree (Functional) Hearing Comment by Brent Yorgason March 2016
• John, the reason I leaned toward a Cx was that it would be more likely for an accidental to be left out of a first printing than for a C# to be substituted for a D. The D makes more sense theoretically -- although I'm sure this wasn't Chopin's first…

  in Wrong note in Chopin Mazurka? Comment by Brent Yorgason January 2016