Episodes

  • Episode 80: Summer Book Club - What the Best College Teachers Do (Chapters 1 & 2)

    Episode 80: Summer Book Club - What the Best College Teachers Do (Chapters 1 & 2)
    Jul 22 2024
    Paul, Jenn, and Ben begin our summer-long bookclub by discussing the first two chapters of Ken Bain's "What the Best College Teachers Do."
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    37 mins
  • Episode 79: 2024 Shorts Shorts 2

    Episode 79: 2024 Shorts Shorts 2
    Jul 8 2024
    In this summer short, Paul flies solo - giving an in-depth breakdown of the Note Doctors theme music. Hang on tight as Paul digs into funky bass lines, the fifth mode of the melodic minor scale, and even a little Neo-Riemannian theory.
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    21 mins
  • Episode 78: 2024 Summer Shorts 1

    Episode 78: 2024 Summer Shorts 1
    Jun 24 2024
    Paul, Jenn, and Ben kick off our series of summer shorts by recapping some of the highlights from the past Pedagogy into Practice Conference.
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    27 mins
  • Episode 77: Live at Pedagogy into Practice

    Episode 77: Live at Pedagogy into Practice
    Jun 10 2024
    Listen in on Paul, Jenn, and Ben's panel discussion "Conversation's in Music Theory: More than just talking" from the 2024 Pedagogy into Practice Conference.
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    53 mins
  • Episode 76: Brian Jarvis - New ways of approaching form and timbre

    Episode 76: Brian Jarvis - New ways of approaching form and timbre
    Apr 22 2024
    Paul, Jenn, and Ben talk with Dr. Brian Jarvis, Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at El Paso, about his work in creating new and engaging ways to visually represent musical form and timbre, specifically his programs BriFormer and Auralayer.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Episode 75: Favorite Christmas-themed music theory examples

    Episode 75: Favorite Christmas-themed music theory examples
    Dec 22 2023
    Paul, Ben, and Jenn celebrate the season (and being done with the semester) by sharing the Christmas songs they like to use as examples in the music theory or aural skills classroom. Songs include Silent Night, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Greensleeves, and This Christmas.
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    30 mins
  • Episode 74: Brent Auerbach - Reining in pitch and pitch-class motives

    Episode 74: Brent Auerbach - Reining in pitch and pitch-class motives
    Dec 11 2023
    We are back with our second episode produced in collaboration with the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy! Paul, Jenn, and Ben talk with Dr. Brent Auerbach, professor of music theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, about his upcoming JMTP article entitled "Reining in Pitch and Pitch-Class Motives: Restrictive Rules for Improving Analytic Outcomes in the Tonal Theory Classroom."
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 73: Jennifer Shafer England - Writing in the theory classroom

    Episode 73: Jennifer Shafer England - Writing in the theory classroom
    Nov 27 2023
    We are back with another episode produced in collaboration with the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy! Paul, Jenn, and Ben talk with Dr. Jennifer Shafer England, assistant professor at Montana State University, about her upcoming JMTP article entitled "One Bite at a Time: Writing in the Theory Classroom."
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    53 mins