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Hello, George! In addition to Gary's discussion in ASA, Jeffrey Gillespie has an article called "Melodic Dictation Scoring Methods: An Exploratory Study" in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy Vol. 15 (2001), while Stan Kleppinger's 2017 article in…
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Hi David, I don't have anything that addresses your exact questions, but I asked my students in the fall to do a transcription of a piece of music that could be broadly understood as "not using functional tonality as we've learned it." This was a gr…
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Hi Paula, This isn't quite what you asked for, but may be relevant: Robert A. Duke, Carla Davis Cash, and Sarah E. Allen, "Focus of Attention Affects Performance of Motor Skills in Music," Journal of Research in Music Education 59 No. 1 (2011), 44–5…
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Hi Megan, I don't know that our solution is the best, but we do all of ours online through our LMS in just the way you describe, without requiring notation-based answers. With things like part writing and chord spelling, we test through error detect…
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Hi Frank, You might take a look at the book Audio Production and Critical Listening. I haven't read it in detail, but it may give you some ideas. And it comes with software that is supposed to let you try out some of the concepts in the book. Obviou…
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Thank you, Sam! Honestly, those other formats didn't even occur to me. But thinking about them now, the blog still feels right because for whatever reason, I'd rather not have my face on screen or my voice coming out of people's speakers. I think it…
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At Utah State, we have recently put all our diagnostic exams online. Our music fundamentals test is administered through the Canvas LMS. All students register for the Fundamentals class, and once they're into the LMS site for the course they have ac…
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My most recent numbers are 57 for AS 1 and 41 for AS 3 (the highest level we offer). We get by with 2 TAs present and actively helping during MW classes and then having Friday breakout sections of up to 20. It's huge, but it means our most qualified…
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I sympathize with all the arguments presented here, but I also see value in a selective process. People with higher teaching loads often don't have the time to craft a perfect 8,000-word article with no guarantee that it will ever be accepted, but m…
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It's easy to blame this change on a lack of curiosity on the part of students (not necessarily accusing anyone on this thread of this position), but the more expensive college becomes, and the more necessary for a middle-class life, the more it is v…
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Thanks, Rich! I actually have an essay in this volume of ES too, but I haven't yet had the chance to read most of the other contributions. I'll definitely need to find time!
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This is fantastic news, Brent! However, when I force my Mac to open it, it gives me the error "The Java JAR file 'AudioTimeliner.jar' could not be launched. Check the Console for possible error messages." When I check the console, I see a lot of stu…
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Thanks all for your suggestions! (Which is not to say I won't welcome others.)
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Thanks both--great comments/thoughts and resources!
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Thanks for your comments, Nicolas! (I should have added to my post that the blog itself is not necessarily intended for deep analysis or theorizing, but about reaching out to as large an audience as possible--thus the posts are as brief as possible …
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There is another Gregorian notation font named Caeciliae that I have found quite easy to use. I incorporated a small amount of notation in Caeciliae into my dissertation.
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It's possible the ad people knew sonata theory--but I think more likely they relied on their instincts with a familiar song!
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I'm still not happy with where I am on this issue. The calls for fundamental change are exciting but difficult to implement. Smaller changes seem more realistic in the short term. For me, this has meant incorporating as broad a repertoire as possibl…
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A bit late, here is a summary of responses to my original email. 1. Some people suggested that there is a fundamental difference between pop-rock and "classical" music, and that (either because of the role of technology in the former, or its relianc…
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It's hard not to have strong feelings about this proposal, both positive and negative, and to that extent I suppose the authors have succeeded. But it seems to me one very important piece is missing. If this kind of change is to happen (or any such …
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