Episodes

  • 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
  • Episode 72: Remembering Dr. Gene Cho

    Episode 72: Remembering Dr. Gene Cho
    Nov 13 2023
    In this special episode, Paul, Jenn, and Ben remember the late Dr. Gene Cho. An Emeritus Regents Professor of Music Theory at the University of North Texas who impacted the lives of many music students over his more than four decades-long teaching career, Paul, Jenn, and Ben share their own memories and recount the numerous lessons they learned from Dr. Cho.
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    36 mins
  • Episode 71: Catrina S. Kim - Teaching music theory ethically

    Episode 71: Catrina S. Kim - Teaching music theory ethically
    Oct 30 2023
    Paul, Jenn, and Ben talk with Dr. Catrina S. Kim, Assistant Professor of Music Theory at UMass Amherst, about how we can reframe university directives of antiracist and decolonized curricula in order to create a more holistic and ethical music theory pedagogy. We also want to note that in the conversation, the described learning outcomes from Jason Hooper’s Theory 1 class were drawn from or inspired by work by Jesse Stommel, Claire Hay, and Neil Postman.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 70: Brent Ferguson - Video game music and gamifying the theory classroom

    Episode 70: Brent Ferguson - Video game music and gamifying the theory classroom
    Oct 16 2023
    Paul, Jenn, and Ben talk with Dr. Brent Ferguson, Lecturer in Games Sound and Music at Brunel University London, about how he uses video game music examples in his teaching and his most successful strategies for gamifying the theory curriculum.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 69: Stephanie Venturino - Developing online materials for pre-college theory

    Episode 69: Stephanie Venturino - Developing online materials for pre-college theory
    Oct 2 2023
    Paul, Jenn, and Ben talk with Dr. Stephanie Venturino, assistant professor of analysis and musicianship at the Yale School of Music, about her work in developing online pre-college materials for the AP Music Theory curriculum.
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    1 hr and 6 mins