Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy

Leigh VanHandel is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of British Columbia.

• PART I: Fundamentals / 1. Music theory and working memory (Leigh VanHandel) / 2. Putting the music in music fundamentals (Melissa Hoag) / 3. A cornucopia of accidentals (Paula J. Telesco) / 4. Contouring as a powerful tool for pitch awareness (Jan Miyake) / 5. Incorporating melodicas into the music theory classroom (Chelsey L. Hamm) / 6. Music fundamentals games (Stefanie Dickinson) / PART II: Rhythm and Meter / 7. Introducing musical meter through perception (Stanley V. Kleppinger) / 8. Starting from scratch: Representing meter using simple programming tools (Daniel B. Stevens) / 9. ‘Computer programmed with just one finger’: Transcribing rap beats with the Roland TR–808 (Michael Berry) / 10. Rebeaming rhythms: Helping students ‘feel’ the need for correct beaming (Gene S. Trantham) / 11. Clapping for credit: A pedagogical application of Reich’s Clapping Music (Jon Kochavi) / 12. Hindustani Tal: Non-Western explorations of meter(Anjni H. Amin) / PART III: Core Curriculum / Diatonic Harmony / 13.Small-scale improvisation in the music theory classroom (Nancy Rogers) / 14. The cognitive and communicative constraints of part-writing (Daniel Shanahan) / 15. Voice-leading detectives (Meghan Naxer) / 16. Harmonic sequences simplified: The first week of instruction (Brent Auerbach) / 17. Grading the song (Michael Baker) / 18. Finding the implied polyphony in the Minuet II from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major (Edward Klorman) / Chromatic Harmony / 19. Using tendency tones to teach the morphology and syntax of chromatic harmony (Stacey Davis) / 20. Apply yourself! An active learning lesson plan

Society for Music Theory Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award, 2022