Monthly Archives: February 2011

Leading Notes [new invited piece]

Leading Notes is a new media venture in music education, kind of a curated blog/magazine. It is the creation of two graduate students: Justine Dolorfino (from Columbia University) and Nick Jaworski (from the University of Illinois). The first issue has … Continue reading

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Building Your Own Musical Community: How YouTube, Miley Cyrus, and the Ukulele Can Create a New Kind of Ensemble [new General Music Today column]

I write the “Secondary Scene” column for General Music Today. Just up, a column I co-wrote with undergraduate general music student Julianne Evoy, “Building Your Own Musical Community: How YouTube, Miley Cyrus, and the Ukulele Can Create a New Kind … Continue reading

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Visualizing Vibrato in Mark Katz’s new edition of Capturing Sound

For years, I’ve had students read Mark Katz’s wonderful book, Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music. About a year ago, I emailed him a visualization I had made to use in my class when we were reading the book, … Continue reading

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