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Very cool but what does this have to do with "21st-Century Classroom"? Is that just a meaningless phrase to make it sound modern, not old-fashioned?
by tantalor 6d ago
Very cool but what does this have to do with "21st-Century Classroom"? Is that just a meaningless phrase to make it sound modern, not old-fashioned?
- bwanab 6d agoCould just be because it is the 21st century and this was written for classroom use.
- gowld 6d agoIt's a new presentation, an online hypertext, and uses YouTube publications of 21st Century music as example. https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/frontmatter-5.html https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/frontmatter-5.html
- colonwqbang 6d agoIf you subtract the "meaningless phrase", the title of the book is just "Music Theory". Do this for every book written about music, art, mathematics and you'll just have a lot of books with identical and quite dull titles.
- odyssey7 6d agoInsightful. The title being more to distinguish than to describe.
- Dfiesl 6d agoI guess the 21st century classroom is the free online classroom you connect to from your portable device
- dahart 6d agoThere is a whole paragraph in the preface about why he titled it “21st-Century Classroom”. The first sentence contains one very good reason: it’s a full year college music theory textbook with an open license. The other reasons cited are: “This text differs from other music theory textbooks by focusing less on four–part (SATB) voiceleading and more on relating harmony to the phrase. Also, in traditional music theory textbooks, there is little emphasis on motivic analysis and analysis of melodic units smaller than the phrase. In my opinion, this led to students having difficulty with creating melodies, since the training they are given is typically to write a “melody” in quarter notes in the soprano voice of part writing exercises. When the assignments in those texts ask students to do more than this, the majority of the students struggle to create a melody with continuity and with appropriate placement of harmonies within a phrase because the text had not prepared them to do so.” https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/frontmatter-5.html https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/frontmatter-5.html
- iainctduncan 6d agoIt has embedded youtube videos of examples. I certainly didn't have that in my 20th century theory text books and it would have been very helpful! This resource looks excellent
- webern777 5d agoExactly. It is hard to explain how great this is unless you tried to learn this by just looking at staff notation with having no idea what the sound actually was. Literally like trying to learn color theory without vision.
- iainctduncan 4d agoEspecially if you're not a pianist. I play a monophonic instrument, so even though I did plenty of piano, it sure it wasn't up to "casually sightreading examples from the literature" level.