<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>We've also been contemplating this at NEC, and I think it's a great idea. We don't require a text, so the students should be able to spend the money to have such a great resource. We have a keyboard component for our core harmony courses and this would help the students practice. In addition — and equally important -- they can actually play their progressions before turning them in!</div><div><br></div><div>I'm hoping we can implement this soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Deborah</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Deborah Stein</div><div>Music Theory Department</div><div>New England Conservatory</div><div>290 Huntington Avenue</div><div>Boston, MA 02115</div><div><br></div><div>(617) 469-2490 </div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Jonathan Santore <<a href="mailto:jsantore@mail.plymouth.edu">jsantore@mail.plymouth.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sunday, May 4, 2014 3:11 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Seth Monahan <<a href="mailto:seth.monahan@rochester.rr.com">seth.monahan@rochester.rr.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> <<a href="mailto:smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Smt-talk] Keyboards for theory classes?<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div>Seth, I've contemplated it, but have never gone ahead and DONE it. I think it's a marvelous idea, personally, and the costs now compare favorably with those for most textbooks.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan Santore</div><div>Plymouth State University (NH)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div>Dear friends,</div><div><br></div><div>While revising my Freshman theory course more to make it more explicitly piano-centered, I’ve had to contend with the possibility that the resulting spike in usage might well strain our campus resources. </div><div><br></div><div>This led me to wonder: has anyone in this community either (a) advised—or even required—students to acquire/purchase an inexpensive (<$100) electronic keyboard as part of their curricular requirements; or (b) sought to make such instruments available to music students through their institution—maybe as a rental, or even gratis, as part of their tuition or housing contract?</div><div><br></div><div>(Broadening the question a bit, I’d be equally keen to know of institutions that provide *any* complementary technology for their music students. I’ve heard grapevine stories, e.g., of newly-enrolled students receiving iPods from their departments, presumably in conjunction with various well-defined pedagogical aims.)</div><div><br></div><div>I'd welcome responses either on-list or off.</div><div><br></div><div>Gratefully,</div><div><br></div><div>- Seth</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Seth Monahan</span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Assistant Professor of Music Theory</span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester</span></span></div><div><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;">Reviews Editor, <i>Music Theory Spectrum</i></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">(585) 274-1556</span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://www.sethmonahan.com" target="_blank">www.sethmonahan.com</a></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org">http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________
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