Research Catalog

Title

Expanding the canon : Black composers in the music theory classroom / edited by Melissa Hoag.

Publication

• New York : Routledge, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Hoag, Melissa E.

Description

xvii, 267 pages : illustrations, music; 26 cm

Summary

"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." --

Subject

• Music theory > Instruction and study
• Music by black composers > Analysis, appreciation
• Culturally relevant pedagogy
• Culturally relevant pedagogy
• Music theory > Instruction and study

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Philip Ewell -- Introduction / Melissa Hoag -- Our field at its best / Teresa L. Reed -- Part one : Fundamentals and diatonic harmony. Rethinking music fundamentals : centering the contributions of Black musicians / Uzee Brown Jr. ; Change from the middle, right from the beginning : strategies for incorporating Black composers in a music fundamentals course / Robin Attas ; Rhiannon Giddens and Francis "Frank" Johnson in the first-year theory classroom / Jan Miyake ; 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. Modal mixture / Mitchell Ohriner ; "Elite syncopations" and "Euphonic sounds" : Scott Joplin in the aural skills classroom / Amy Fleming ; Modulation / Alan Reese -- Part three : Form. A jazz-specific lens : methodological diversity in the music theory core / Ben Geyer ; Of simple forms and firsts : on Francis Johnson and Harry Burleigh / Horace J. Maxile, Jr. ; A trio of art songs on texts by Langston Hughes / Melissa Hoag ; Teaching sonatas beyond "mostly Mozart" / Aaron Grant and Catrina Kim -- Part four : Popular music. Expanding the scope of analysis in the popular music classroom / Zachary Zinser ; Formal structures and narrative design in Janelle Monáe's The ArchAndroid / Cora S. Palfy ; Diving deeper into rhythm and meter through drum parts in twenty-first-century pop / David Geary ; Developing contemporary rhythm skills through contemporary R&B / Trevor De Clercq ; Structural shifts and identity in music by Ester Rada / Rosa Abrahams -- Part five : Twentieth-century music. Inclusivity and the "perfect teaching piece" in the undergraduate post-tonal classroom / Cara Stroud ; Dream variations : an analytical exploration of Florence Price's "My dream" / Leigh Vanhandel ; Teaching twentieth-century stylistic pluralism through the music of George Walker / Owen Belcher ; Teaching Julia Perry's Homunculus C.F. / Kendra Preston Leonard.

Call Number

JMF 23-404

ISBN

• 1032068280
• 9781032068282
• 9781032068275
• 1032068272

OCLC

1336535645

Title

Expanding the canon : Black composers in the music theory classroom / edited by Melissa Hoag.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hoag, Melissa E., editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781000821673

Research Call Number

JMF 23-404