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Hi Zac,
When I came to OU, enrollment in aural skills classes could range anywhere from 20 to 30 students. I set the cap for all aural skill classes to 15. Of course, lower caps means more instructors, but the payoff is a lower percentage of student…
If you are friends with John on Facebook, he has a link to the article. You can read it via the link. John's article is very good, and it addresses may of the concerns I raised earlier, particulary how to integrate both canons. I hope John won't min…
The new director of the University of South Florida School of Music distributed this report to the faculty via email. She has also scheduled a special faculty meeting where the lead author will attend and discuss the findings of the report. I suspec…
The new director of the University of South Florida School of Music distributed this report to the faculty via email. She has also scheduled a special faculty meeting where the lead author will attend and discuss the findings of the report. I suspec…
Hi Jason,
I think I understand what you are looking for with regard to 20th century meter. We can have theories of meter that are separate from tonal pitch structures as Lerdahl does in GTTM. The common hierarchical foundation of tonal pitch and rhy…
I read a science fiction novel years ago that posited a world so overpopulated that people were restricted to a single day of living each week. The entire population was split into seven groups, and each group was assigned a single day. The other si…