- Provides examples that instructors can readily apply in their teaching, enabling deeper inclusion of Black composers in the music theory curriculum on a practical level
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- This book includes discussion of a wide variety of genres, including: jazz and popular music (including R&B, funk, and pop), string quartets, piano pieces, concertos, symphonies, and art songs
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- Addresses Black composers and musicians working in a wide range of musical styles, including classical and popular works
Melissa Hoag (she/her/hers) is Associate Professor of music theory at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where she has served as Coordinator of music theory since 2007. She has taught all levels of undergraduate and graduate music theory and aural skills, as well as courses on counterpoint, form, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century music. Her publications on counterpoint, pedagogy, and voice leading in Brahms have appeared in BACH, Music Theory Online, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Gamut, Dutch Journal of Music Theory, and The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (ed. VanHandel). She serves as reviews editor for Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy and is a Question Leader for the AP music theory exam. In addition to a PhD in music theory, she also holds a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion through Cornell University.
Title: Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom
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ISBN: 9781032068275
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-30
Number of Pages: 268
Weight: 0.4301 kg
