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Recapitulation Theory (NAfME 2024 Poster)

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Matthew

I’ll be at NAfME in Atlanta to discuss a research project looking at recapitulation theory in early 20C music appreciation texts. For those who are curious, or if you attended the poster session, here’s a jpeg version. I’m working on … Continue reading →

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Ukulele sing-along fun in Hong Kong

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Matthew

What I missed most during COVID was the ability to get together and play music with friends out in the world. I’m glad that finally this is ending, and that my students and me are gradually regrowing musical roots in … Continue reading →

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My work on Sound Studies and Music Education

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Matthew

Here’s a short overview of my engagement with sound studies as a music educator in preparation for my participation in the virtual conference Sound, Meaning, Education: Conversations. I first learned of sound studies in 2005 via a review of Katz’s … Continue reading →

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Some presentations and a strum

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Matthew

I presented for the NAfME History SRIG and also at the University of Mississippi History of Music Education conference this spring. I’m not too sure that making these presentations public is helpful, but since I prerecorded them, here they are. … Continue reading →

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Participatory Music in Japan (Orff Echo and Multimedia Journal of Music Education)

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Matthew

The Orff Echo recently published a short reflection I wrote on participatory music experiences from my family’s time in Japan (2014-17). I negotiated the right to post the final piece on my university’s scholarly repository, and so anyone can now … Continue reading →

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Aebersold Play-A-Long Media and the creation of the Beginning Improvisation Student

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Matthew

Update: Here’s the article I was preparing when I gave this talk (JRME).  Here’s a short presentation (minus the Q&A) from a talk I gave to a webinar at the Education University of Hong Kong on July 22, 2020. This … Continue reading →

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Demonstration of fiddle/banjo for Pedagogies of Improvisation course

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Matthew

I teach a graduate course on pedagogies of improvisation in music learning, and we had a visit from Akihiro Uchida, a master old-time fiddle player based in Japan and the US, and with whom I often played while living in … Continue reading →

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Old-time jam at a bike shop (Lexington, KY)

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Matthew

During a recent trip to the US, I had the wonderful pleasure of visiting an old-time session in Lexington, KY. The session is held at a bike shop that is also a cafe, and it was such a delight. There … Continue reading →

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Online music lessons: a few exemplars

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Matthew

I teach a course in studio pedagogy at The Education University of Hong Kong. This spring, students in the course spent time identifying interesting or exemplary videos for learning piano or guitar. Some are excellent in terms of multimedia use, … Continue reading →

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The Suzuki Method’s Mediated Pedagogy

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Matthew

The Journal of Research in Music Education has published “Learning with Sound Recordings: A History of Suzuki’s Mediated Pedagogy.” In it, I draw attention to the ways that Suzuki’s pedagogic innovations are deeply enmeshed with media of sound recording. I also … Continue reading →

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