Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom

ISBN-13: 9781032068275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str.

Hoag, Melissa

Opis

Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula, Expanding the Canon aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed, and help faculty expand their teaching with practical, classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on teaching music theory with music by Black composers.

O autorze

Melissa Hoag (she/her/hers) is Associate Professor of music theory at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where she has served as Coordinator of music theory since 2007. She has taught all levels of undergraduate and graduate music theory and aural skills, as well as courses on counterpoint, form, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century music. Her publications on counterpoint, pedagogy, and voice leading in Brahms have appeared in BACH, Music Theory Online, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Gamut, Dutch Journal of Music Theory, and The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (ed. VanHandel). She serves as reviews editor for Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy and is a Question Leader for the AP music theory exam. In addition to a PhD in music theory, she also holds a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion through Cornell University.