hey, welcome to 12tone!
I am an academic musician, and I think there's a lot of confusion about what that term means.
a lot of people seem to think we're just like normal musicians but somehow smarter, but
in reality many of us don't play in bands, have albums, or even necessarily write or
perform music.
now, normally in a video like this I'd just start talking about the concept in abstract
terms, but this time I can do you one better, because last week I was invited to give a
talk at the University of South Carolina's conference on Public Music Discourse in honor
of Leonard Bernstein's centenary.
I'll talk about bit about my presentation at the end, but while I was there I got to
ask a bunch of attendees to describe their work in their own words, so without further
ado, here's some of the things that academic musicians are actually doing.
<Dr Daniel Jenkins>: My research right now focuses on what I call public music theory.
I got interested in this through the composer Arnold Schoenberg.
Most of us, if we know about Schoenberg, know about his development of the 12 tone method
of composition, but actually, Schoenberg was really dedicated about communicating to a
general audience about his music and so through working on him, I'm thinking, well, who
else has been dedicated to communicating to a general audience, and that took me to Leonard
Bernstein, of course, but many many other people, and that lead me to think about media
and other venues and ways that we can bring greater musical understanding to as wide of
an audience as possible
<Dr. Kristin Wendland>: I'm working on a couple of projects right now, I'm wrapping
up one, that actually I've been working on for fifteen years on Argentine tango music,
and I fell in love with it through the dance, and I started studying the scores, I wanted
to make arrangements, how does the music work?
I wanted that passion about it, I wanted to bring it out into the world, and so I teach
a tango course, on the history and culture, and then also the performance practices of
the music, and then my book, Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Music just came out, all about
the instrumental music.
And then I'm working on a new project right now on the intersections of music and yoga,
mostly through the lense of Yehudi Menuhin, who was a fantastic child prodigy virtuoso,
and he intersected with Yoga and brought it into his teaching and into his life practice,
so that's my newer project.
<David John Baker>: I primarily do music cognition, which is sort of a split between music psychology
and computational musicology, and I'm really interested in how you can sort of use tools
of computational musicology and sort of the frameworks from cognitive psychology to better
inform how people learn melodies, which you do, of course, if you're taking aural skills
classes or something like that, it's really important to know what types of mechanisms
lead to that and how you actually model that in terms of building a statistical model of
that.
<Dr. Rachel Short>: I call my work choreo-musical analysis, analyzing not just the music and
phrase lengths and accents and that, but also looking at the choreography and how motions
in the choreography inter-react with what's in the music.
<Dr. Timothy A. Johnson>: some of my research is on music in baseball, and I've given
several talks at the baseball hall of fame and other venues like that.
I've talked about Charles Ives' music in baseball, and I've also spoken about
Take Me Out to the Ball Game and other baseball tunes.
More recently, I've done some work on music that's played at the ball parks such as
the music that players select as they walk up to the plate to bat or enter a game to pitch
My work on Charles Ives in baseball turned into a book that was given an award by the
society for american baseball research.
<Miriam Piilonen>: So I'm a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at Northwestern University,
and my primary research thinks about 19th century evolutionary theories of music, and
I'm interested in the ways that the limits and potentials of the human become entwined
with basically like the structures of music and these theories, but aside from my primary
research, I run a humor twitter account called @darkmusictheory, where I just retweet complaints
about music theory and there are a lot of complaints about music theory which is what
I teach, and I find them really interesting because they seem to index this collective
sense of the difficulty, mundaneness, arbitrariness of music theory, whether this is justified
or not, and I'm interested in using these tweets to create a collective catharsis for
people who struggle in music theory, and also just to think about the reasons why students
seem to struggle with music theory.
<Dr. Garrett Schumann>: Hi, so I'm a composer and I'm a scholar of music who studies heavy
metal music, and then I also run a nonprofit concert-presenting organization that puts
on concerts all across Michigan, and I enjoy all three of these streams, they keep me really
engaged with thinking about music in interesting ways, creating music in interesting ways and
then sharing it with the people around me.
<Becky Troyer>: Alright, so my name's Becky and I have a Youtube channel teaching post-tonal
music theory.
So I did my master's at Florida State, and I'm looking to do a Ph.D. in music theory
in the future, what I'm really passionate about is history of theory, early music, so
the medieval period, the renaissance period, and also post-tonal 20th century contemporary
music, and maybe one day finding the intersection between the two, especially with rhythm and
meter and metrical dissonance, things like that.
I'm an oboist so I wrote a piece, or I wrote a paper about this piece called six metamorphoses
after Ovid that kind of brings in classical mythology sources as well as these whole oboe
stories from these different mythological figures, and so I like telling stories as
well and finding different ways of intersecting those things
<Dr. Michael Baker>: The class that I'm currently developing for this semester is
a class on music and interdisciplinary studies, where I would be the host professor that teaches
the class and then each week I would bring a guest from the university faculty and then
the two of us would team teach the class together for my students in the class, where I would
be the music expert and then one week we would bring in the linguistics professor and the
two of us would share ideas together and develop lesson plans and work together with our students.
and that's just a small taste of all the awesome presentations at the conference.
some of my favorite talks that I didn't get an interview with included a study on how
non-musicians describe music, a look at Marion Bauer's work as a female composer and musicologist
in the early 20th century, a class project where music majors taught post-tonal composition
to retirement home residents, and a discussion of the role of concert programs in understanding
the culture of post-war Poland.
I also met a couple other music theory channels: you saw Becky Troyer in the interviews, who
runs Music Theory Studio, a similar hand-drawn channel that explains post-tonal music, and
I also met Richard Atkinson, who focuses on analyzing counterpoint.
there's links in the description to their channels as well as Miriam's twitter account
for music theory complaints, Doctor Johnson's book on music and baseball and Doctor Wendland's
book on tango.
as for me, my talk had the fancy-sounding title "Communicating Music Theory Through
Online Video" and it focused on, well, that.
I talked about some of the challenges that youtube educators face, including the lack
of a consistent student body which prevents us from really building curriculums, as well
as the difficulty of using important teaching tools like repetition and challenge.
I also looked at some of the solutions I used, including developing short, ready-made explanations
for common topics and setting my goals to best utilize the tools I do have.
plus I gave some tips for getting started in the educational video world, like learning
from the people who are already doing it well, and leading with personality and passion.
the talk was streamed live, but unfortunately it's not published online yet.
Doctor Jenkins, the conference organizer, is looking into fixing that, and if he does
I'll post the link on twitter if you want to check it out, so follow me there if you
want to see it.
or if you just want to see what I look like.
I know a lot of you do.
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