<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>Responding to Anna's request (which, I'm guessing, is of interest to all of us).<br><br></div>Temple's theory sequence (for all music majors) consists of 4 semesters: diatonic theory, chromatic theory, form, and post-tonal theory. Each course is 4 credits and meets 5x a week (M/W/F with a professor, and T/R with a graduate student). We try to do both written AND aural work in each session, but the reality of the situation is that aural work (sadly) often gets pushed to the Tuesday/Thursday sessions with our grad students.<br>
<br></div>Keyboard Harmony is taught as a separate class -- though not all of the music majors are required to take the course.<br><br></div>Our system is not optimal, but it is the best we can do under our many constraints, which include (but are not limited to):<br>
<br></div>1. A credit-heavy GenEd course-load, required of all Temple students (we're not a conservatory, so we don't have that many credits to devote to music courses).<br><br></div>2. A large number of students in a music-ed curriculum, which includes many state-mandated courses that squeeze out music courses.<br>
<br></div>In short, we only have 16 credits to play with for theory. Having said that, we do have music majors outside of music-ed who take several additional theory courses. <br><br></div>On a personal note: when I think of the many theory courses that I took as an undergraduate at Eastman (courses that gave me a solid foundation in music theory), I feel a sense of frustration that so many institutional barriers prevent me from devoting the time necessary to train our music majors with the same attention to detail that I enjoyed as a student. I am reminded of Foucault's notion of power relations, which are decentralized in institutions. That is, it is not as easy as one might hope to find a "person in power," whom we can hold responsible for the situations we face. Often, the power we need to address is really an assemblage of different constituencies, all of which (whom) have their priorities; priorities that can be at cross purposes.<br>
<br></div>--Michael<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Anna Gawboy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gawboy.2@osu.edu" target="_blank">gawboy.2@osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>My institution has recently begun to contemplate a revision of the entire undergraduate curriculum. I'm curious how much time other schools devote to core theory (i.e., those courses required of all undergraduate music majors) and the basic format for their delivery.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Are theory and aural skills integrated or taught in separate classes? Are keyboard skills included or taught separately? </div><div><br></div><div>How many semesters/quarters of theory are required?<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>How many credit hours are assigned to each class, and how much time does each class meet per week? </div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks in advance,</div><div>Anna Gawboy</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
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