Scholarship | Andrew Conklin Music

Wanted: Orchestral Scores by Composers Not Named Beethoven

NewMusicBox

As I search for pieces to feature in an introductory orchestration course, I am reminded that it is easy to find scores by white men, and much harder to find scores by anyone else.

Writing Wrong Notes: Chromatic Clashes in the Music of Tune-Yards

Music Theory Online

The way Tune-Yards uses dissonance is versatile and ingenious.

Tossing the Textbook and Decentering the Canon in an Introductory Orchestration Course

Society of Composers National Conference

Shouldn’t the Test Fit the Tune? A Model for Designing Inclusive Aural Skills Assessments

Pedagogy into Practice Conference

fux-gradus_ad_parnassum_from_first_species_in_three_voices_0-725x139.jpeg