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12/06/2011

Denissa found this harmony lesson on YouTube. It is priceless! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SD3ToKDsw

La toune: Requiem de Mozart (K. 626), no 7: Lacrymosa L'harmonie est le paramètre musical auquel je suis le plus sensible. Mon point avec cette vidéo, c'est ...

11/28/2011

another example of a split position announcement http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175577919

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

11/28/2011

Denissa, Jenny, and Uzziel are on the schedule for tomorrow. Please plan ahead if you have any technology, handouts, or other materials to prepare. Everyone else, arrive ready to give feedback and get ideas for your own papers and presentations! As always, let me know how I can help.

11/18/2011

http://jmtp.ou.edu/issues.html If you are looking for articles related to your research topic, this page has a list of all JMTP article titles (1987-2011). If you find an interesting title, the library has them all. (2011 is in current periodicals, the rest are in the stacks)

The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy and the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center for Music Theory Pedagogy

11/15/2011

On thursday we will meet upstairs in M240, the music ed library, to discuss and compare music theory textbooks.

11/10/2011

Here is the Cage video from class http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSulycqZH-U One of the gems of the clip is that the unions involved with the show couldn't decide whose job it was to plug in the radios - the electricians or the musicians - so Cage is forced to improvise...

John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret. via WFMU: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/04/john_cage_on_a_....

11/07/2011

Remember to bring outlines of your projects to class tomorrow and be prepared to give a progress report to the class. Rough drafts due next week!

11/07/2011

2:00 today in the TLPDC - Writing Your Teaching Philosophy Statement - Teaching statements are important for job applications as well as personal growth. I highly recommend that you attend this workshop if you can. register at www.tlpd.ttu.edu or just show up.

Texas Tech University

11/04/2011

Texas State University-San Marcos 2012 SUMMER PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The Graduate College is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2012 Summer Predoctoral Fellowship Program. This will be the seventh year Texas State has offered the program. The complete announcement and application may be viewed at http://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu/Predoctoral_Fellowship.html.
The predoctoral fellowship program brings doctoral candidates from other institutions that have completed their course work and are in the process of writing their dissertations (ABD), to spend June and July on the Texas State campus working with faculty and students in their field. Participants may also be considered as potential candidates for future faculty positions as appropriate. The program is only available to doctoral students who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

Texas State is a public, student-centered, doctoral granting institution dedicated to excellence in serving the educational needs of the diverse population of Texas and the world beyond. The Texas State Summer Predoctoral Fellowship Program supports the institution’s shared value of “A diversity of...

11/02/2011

and of course, a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8

11/02/2011

and another...http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/tweeting-students-earn-higher-grades-than-others-in-classroom-experiment/28172

Students chatting on Twitter both inside and outside the classroom got higher grades than their nontweeting peers in a recent experiment conducted at a medium-size public institution in the Midwest.

11/02/2011

additional (optional) reading http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/students-push-their-facebook-use-further-into-academics/33947

College students are taking social media to a new level, using Web sites like Facebook to communicate with other students about their coursework, according to results of a new survey on student technology use.