Integration, Diversity, and Creativity in Current Music Theory Pedagogy Research

01 January 2016 and written theory. Notable in this regard is The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills, by Joel Phillips, Paul Murphy, Elizabeth West Marvin, and Jane Piper Clendinning, a text focusing on contextual listening activities that require the application of...

Contour and Melodic Structure in Two Homophonic Instrumental Works by Anton Webern

02 October 2006 of Contour Theory to Diverse Musical Spaces: Analytic Approaches to the Music of Dallapiccola and Stockhausen." In Elizabeth West Marvin and Richard Hermann (eds.) Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytic Studies (pp. 135-71)....

Poking the Pillars: A Preliminary Evaluation of Integration, Diversity, and Creativity

01 January 2016 in the Music Theory Classroom." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 28 (2014): 87–119. Phillips, Joel, Paul Murphy, Elizabeth West Marvin, and Jane Piper Clendinning. The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011....

Integrating Music Theory Instruction into Studio Teaching

30 April 1991 and discuss the readings on analysis and performance suggested here. (Another possible resource is Marie Rolf's and Elizabeth West Marvin's "Analytical Issues and Interpretive Decisions in Two Songs by Richard Strauss," in Intégral 4 [1990]: 67-103.)...

Your Turn to Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership in Music Theory and Aural Skills

13 May 2026 Pre-Existing Beliefs About Leadership.” Studies in Higher Education 39 (9): 1586–98. Clendinning, Jane Piper, and Elizabeth West Marvin. 2020. The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis. 4th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Cress, Christine M.,...

Demographics of Instructors of Selected First-Year Undergraduate Music Courses

01 October 2024 Abstract Using data from university websites and other online sources, this study gathers the gender identity, rank, and terminal degree status of teachers of selected courses for first-year undergraduate music majors – specifically, group piano, music...

Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum

02 October 2006 intended. Table 3 Examples of Non-Traditional Musical Examples in Recent Theory Textbooks Jane Piper Clendinning and Elizabeth West Marvin, The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis (2004) Robert Gauldin, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, 2nd ed....

The Pedagogy of Early, Twentieth-Century Music: Ideas for a Classroom Discussion based on a Multi-Faceted Analysis of Scriabin's Op. 31, No. 4.

29 November 2016 History, and Music Education.” College Music Symposium, Vol. 49/50 (2009/2010): 140-53. Clendinning, Jane Piper and Elizabeth West Marvin. Theory and Analysis, 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Dirkse, Scott. “Effective Questioning...

Building Bridges: Same and Different Issues Across Music Theory, Music History, and Music Education

01 October 2009 of “why do I have to do this stuff?” The concept of “motivation” in the theory classroom has been explored by Elizabeth West Marvin, who suggests that “students learn better when motivated by their own intrinsic interest in a subject, rather than by...

In Support of Requiring Two Semesters of Class Piano Prior to Music Theory 1

20 September 2019 Concern about music majors’ readiness for the collegiate music curriculum does not seem to be unique to our campus. Elizabeth West Marvin found in a recent study of music theory teachers “the increased need for remediation in their incoming freshmen...

New From Norton: Two Undergraduate Theory Textbooks

06 October 2016 2016. ISBN: 978-0-393-26476-0. 432 pages. The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis by Jane Clendinning and Elizabeth West Marvin. New York: W.W. Norton, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-393-26305-3. 1008 pages. W.W. Norton’s two recent textbooks—Concise...

Shape/Interval Contours and Their Ordered Transformations: A Motivic Approach to Twentieth-Century Music Analysis and Aural Skills

03 October 2005 Friedmann, "A Methodology for the Discussion of Contour;" Robert Morris, Composition with Pitch-Classes, 27-29; and Elizabeth West Marvin and Paul A. Laprade, "Relating Musical Contours." 5This procedure is similar to that used by John Rahn to designate...

The Crystallization of the New, New Music at UCSD

01 October 2011 1. Ever-New California In 1966 work began on widening the road leading from a sleepy San Diego beach community, La Jolla Shores, up to the area where an infant university, the University of California San Diego (UCSD), was quickly developing. The road...

Current Status of Music Theory Teaching

01 January 2016 in the Manifesto for at least the last decade. Published in the 2012 volume of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Elizabeth West Marvin's article, "The Core Curricula In Music Theory-Developments and Pedagogical Trends" highlights some of the changes...

Introducing the Learning Portfolio into Music Theory Core Pedagogy

01 October 2011 in the music theory core include, but are not limited to the following publications: Clendinning, Jane Piper and Elizabeth West Marvin, The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis and The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills Volumes 1 and 2 (with Joel...

The Mind's Ear: I Hear Music and No One Is Performing

03 October 2005 An Imperative," College Music Symposium 37 (1997): 49-64. See also Joel Phillips, Jane Piper Clendinning, and Elizabeth West Marvin, The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills, (New York: W.W. Norton) 2005. authors: Kate Covington author_ids: 878 authors:...

A Primer for Atonal Set Theory

01 October 1991 for the Discussion of Contour: Its Application to Schoenberg's Music," Journal of Music Theory 29/2 (1985): 223-48; Elizabeth West Marvin and Paul A. Laprade, "Relating Musical Contours: Extensions of a Theory for Contour," Journal of Music Theory 31/2...