Expanding the Canon

Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom

Buch | Softcover

268 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-06827-5 (ISBN)

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Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula, Expanding the Canon aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed, and help faculty expand their teaching with practical, classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on teaching music theory with music by Black composers.

Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula, Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed and help faculty expand their teaching with practical, classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on teaching music theory with music by Black composers.

This collection of 21 chapters is loosely arranged to resemble a typical music theory curriculum, with topics progressing from basic to advanced and moving from fundamentals, diatonic harmony, and chromatic harmony to form, popular music, and music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Some chapters focus on segments of the traditional music theory sequence, while others consider a single style or composer. Contributors address both methods to incorporate the music of Black composers into familiar topics, and ways to rethink and expand the purview of the music theory curriculum. A foreword by Philip Ewell and an introductory narrative by Teresa L. Reed describing her experiences as an African American student of music set the volume in wider context.

Incorporating a wide range of examples by composers across classical, jazz, and popular genres, this book helps bring the rich and varied body of music by Black composers into the core of music theory pedagogy and offers a vital resource for all faculty teaching music theory and analysis.

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.

Foreword
PHILIP EWELL

Introduction
MELISSA HOAG

1 Our Field at Its Best
TERESA L. REED

PART ONE: Fundamentals and Diatonic Harmony

2 Rethinking Music Fundamentals: Centering the Contributions of Black Musicians
UZEE BROWN JR.

3 Change from the Middle, Right from the Beginning: Strategies for Incorporating Black Composers in a Music Fundamentals Course
ROBIN ATTAS

4 Rhiannon Giddens and Francis “Frank” Johnson in the First-Year Theory Classroom
JAN MIYAKE

5 From Counterpoint to Small Forms: A Cross-Stylistic Approach to Centering Black Artists in the Theory Core
KRISTINA L. KNOWLES AND NICHOLAS J. SHEA

PART TWO: Chromaticism and Other Advanced Topics

6 Modal Mixture
MITCHELL OHRINER

7 “Elite Syncopations” and “Euphonic Sounds”: Scott Joplin in the Aural Skills Classroom
AMY FLEMING

8 Modulation
ALAN REESE

PART THREE: Form 97

9 A Jazz-Specific Lens: Methodological Diversity in the Music Theory Core
BEN GEYER

10 Of Simple Forms and Firsts: On Francis Johnson and Harry Burleigh
HORACE J. MAXILE, JR.

11 A Trio of Art Songs on Texts by Langston Hughes
MELISSA HOAG

12 Teaching Sonatas Beyond “Mostly Mozart”
AARON GRANT AND CATRINA KIM

PART FOUR: Popular Music

13 Expanding the Scope of Analysis in the Popular Music Classroom
ZACHARY ZINSER

14 Formal Structures and Narrative Design in Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid CORA S. PALFY

15 Diving Deeper into Rhythm and Meter Through Drum Parts in Twenty-First-Century Pop
DAVID GEARY

16 Developing Contemporary Rhythm Skills Through Contemporary R&B
TREVOR DE CLERCQ

17 Structural Shifts and Identity in Music by Ester Rada
ROSA ABRAHAMS

PART FIVE: Twentieth-Century Music

18 Inclusivity and the “Perfect Teaching Piece” in the Undergraduate Post-Tonal Classroom
CARA STROUD

19 Dream Variations: An Analytical Exploration of Florence Price’s “My Dream”
LEIGH VANHANDEL

20 Teaching Twentieth-Century Stylistic Pluralism Through the Music of George Walker
OWEN BELCHER

21 Teaching Julia Perry’s Homunculus C.F.
KENDRA PRESTON LEONARD

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	14 Tables, black and white; 66 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white; 72 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	900 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	1-032-06827-2 / 1032068272
ISBN-13	978-1-032-06827-5 / 9781032068275
Zustand	Neuware