Dr. Kit Music

I’ve messed with and added to what I once was planning to be an article, so I have approximately 18 pages (3600 words) of Chapter 3 – Implementation. This is either the whole chapter, or half the chapter, if I decide to keep pedagogical implications in chapter 3. I’ll work on cleaning up the examples…

I think I’m going to try posting on Tuesdays for awhile and see if that works. I’m starting with the section I know the best first, so that I can feel accomplished, and like I’m getting something done. I’ve given myself the whole quarter (til mid-March), but I’m kinda hoping to get ahead of schedule.…

I got back helpful comments on my first draft of my proposal, and even got some editing in! I’m hoping to have another draft ready to send in before the Thanksgiving holiday. I still need to fix the intro, and the end is about the class that started this blog, but here’s a chunk from…

This week I was going to slowly start working on my full dissertation proposal, but after meeting with my advisor it went quite a bit quicker. I ended up drafting the whole thing. It’s way too short, and really terrible. I can’t even find a part of it that is good enough to post here,…

This week the focus of my reading was on function in music beyond the Common Practice Period (CPP) – modern pop music, jazz, blues, that sort of thing. Functional Tonality is one of the things that defines music of the CPP, so often people disagree with using functional terminology (Roman numerals, often) for music that…

Sorry for not posting last week. I was dealing with things and avoiding anxiety attacks by not doing research. This week, I tried to catch up on some of my historical readings. Let’s go chronologically: I read two perspectives on 18th century theory, mostly pertaining to Thoroughbass traditions, tho there was some mention of Rameau.…

I meant to mostly read articles about harmony/harmonic analysis this week: what are people currently doing with harmonic analysis? How can Functional Analysis help? However, I had some articles already checked off from last spring quarter and so started looking to some secondary historical sources and tying up some loose ends in the pedagogy category. What…

This week, I’ve been focusing on the teaching-of-harmony portion of my lit review. This means that I’ve thumbed thru textbooks from 1873 to 2011 and read articles and books on the state of Music Theory Pedagogy from 1980 and later. This is not a full draft of this portion of my Prospectus, but it is…

Just a note to say that I made a schedule to get back going on Dissertation things! I’m hoping to post regularly on Fridays of my weekly progress.