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You might enjoy my latest column for General Music Today, “Learning from looking at sound: Using multimedia spectrograms to explore world music.” The column details the use of multimedia spectrogram displays for visualizing and understanding music. Here’s the video that accompanies … Continue reading →

A special welcome to anyone coming here after reading “Assessing Your Curriculum with the Creative Rights Pyramid.” (September 2011 issue of Music Educators Journal, in print or free online to NAfME/MENC folks and through most university networks). Here are links to the freely … Continue reading →

Working at a school where research is prized, it’s still always refreshing to have students who think deeply, work hard, and take the time to share the fruits of their efforts. Here’s three recent efforts I’m happy to promote: Terry … Continue reading →

Not sure whether a Keynote presentation via YouTube is valuable, but I am drawn to the idea that I can fix a lecture in time and archive it. I also mostly use Keynote to present media. Here’s one on visualizations … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Here’s a talk I gave last fall to incoming graduate music students, which was recorded as part of the “micro-lecture initiative” by the CITES folks at the University of Illinois. It is posted there, or just watch it on YouTube … Continue reading →