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I am writing to solicit thoughts from members of SMT about ways you have seen the undergraduate core curriculum in music theory change and develop over time to what it is today at your institutions. This information may be of general interest to the list, but I will also be using it as data for a panel presentation I have been invited to present — along with Gary Karpinski and Tim Smith — at the annual meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). I thought it might be a good idea to solicit data for the talk from teachers in diverse types of institutions in order to present the broadest input to NASM. <BR>
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Here is the description of what they’ve asked us to present: “Questions such as content, allocations of time, and relationships between time and content will be explored. Other topics include but are not limited to ways of thinking afresh about content, scheduling and order of content delivery, types and means of teaching, and how the musicianship, theory, and composition/improvisation components are connected to other core components and to the building of general musicianship within degree, course, and curricular structures.”<BR>
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Please reply to me privately (<a href="bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu">bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu</a>), or to the list only if you think others may be interested in responding to your post. I am happy to talk to individuals about this at SMT (as I imagine are the other panelists) and I’ll be attending sessions at SMT that might inform this discussion.<BR>
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Many thanks,<BR>
Betsy Marvin<BR>
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Dr. Elizabeth West Marvin <a href="bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu">bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu</a><BR>
Professor of Music Theory Eastman School of Music<BR>
and Brain & Cognitive Sciences University of Rochester<BR>
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Eastman School of Music <BR>
26 Gibbs Street Phone: (585) 274-1076<BR>
Rochester, NY 14604 Fax: (585) 274-1088<BR>
<a href="http://www.esm.rochester.edu/theory/elizabeth_marvin.php#home">http://www.esm.rochester.edu/theory/elizabeth_marvin.php#home</a><BR>
<a href="http://theory.esm.rochester.edu/music-cognition/">http://theory.esm.rochester.edu/music-cognition/</a><BR>
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