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Conversations about music pedagogy, music theory, ear training, and music technology with members of the uTheory staff and thought leaders from the world of music education.
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51 minutes
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English
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20 episodes
since Jan. 4, 2022
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Leah Sheldon shares tips for teaching intonation, even when working with beginning students.
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00:00 Introduction to Notes From the Staff
In this opening chapter, Leah Sheldon and Greg Ristow introduce the podcast and its focus on music theory, ear training, and music technology. They invi…
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In this episode we explore the difference between just intonation and equal temperament, and take a field trip to learn about an organ with 15 keys per octave (instead of the usual 12), that makes it possible to play purely tuned chords in almost all of the keys.
Links:
Tuning systems synthesizer:…
In this episode, Greg Ristow and David Newman talk about the value and role of intervallic ear training, why it's time to move beyond Here comes the bride, and ways of teaching intervallic hearing that build fundamental skills for sight singing and dictation.
Links:
Karpinski, Gary. "A Cognitive B…
David Newman and Greg Ristow chat about four ways to teach intervals in music theory, as well as how to overcome some of the challenges of teaching intervals.
Transcript
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0:00:20.8 Greg Ristow: Welcome to Notes from the Staff, a podcast from the Creators of uTheory, where we dive into c…
Dr. Paula Telesco walks us through some of the "gotchas" that come up when teaching accidentals, and shares some great musical examples for explaining concepts like enharmonic spelling, double accidentals, and cautionary accidentals.
Transcript
[music]
0:00:21.0 Gregory Ristow: Welcome to Not…
Dr. Leigh VanHandel joins us to talk about the science of memory and learning, and how it can help us better structure our teaching. We also chat about her new book, the Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, which recently received an Outstanding Multi-Authored Collection award from the Soc…
Dr. Stefanie Dickinson joins us to share some of the music fundamentals games that she uses in her music theory classroom.
Links
Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy
Dr. Stefanie Dickinson’s page at UCA
The Power of Play with Jed Dearybury (Notes from the Staff Episode)
Dalcroze Solf…
Dr. Melissa Hoag joins us to talk about ways we can make the teaching of music fundamentals musical, fun and effective. She shares tips from her chapter in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, and takes us through her list of six best practices for teaching music theory fundamentals.
L…
Leah, David and Greg reflect back on favorite moments of first season of Notes from the Staff, and chat about coming features for uTheory.
Links:
Solfege Sally
uTheory.com
Show notes:
0:00:00 Theme Song
0:00:20 Introductions
0:01:00 How David jumped in and sang a Mozart Requiem with Greg on 5 …
David Newman shares his music theory and aural skills teaching songs, as well as some of the stories behind them, in this laughter-filled episode of Notes from the Staff.
Links:
The Well Trained Ear on BandCamp
David Newman on YouTube
Show notes:
0:00:20 Introductions
0:02:03 How did you begin …
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