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I regularly blog about various topics relating to music theory and aural skills

Transcultural music theory: ideas, opportunities, challenges

Transculturality
Transculturation
Diversity/inclusivity
German higher education

The racists are among us

Diversity/inclusivity
Racism of the classical concert audience

Thoughts on transcultural music theory

Transcultural music theory
German higher education
Diversity/inclusivity
Ostinato
Basso ostinato

An interview with Professor Alexander Silbiger

Music theory
Musicology
Widening access
Improvisation
Chaconne

GMTH International Music Theory Lectures to be launched on 25 April 2022

GMTH International Music Theory Lectures
Music analysis
Music theory
Widening access

Imitative counterpoint on a ground-bass (summer conferences 2021)

English Baroque music
Ground bass
Basso ostinato
Imitative counterpoint
Analysis of early music

Farinel’s Ground – Article on the 'folia' in England

English Baroque music
Ground bass
Folia
Farinel's Ground
Analysis of early music

Digital teaching of music theory worldwide

Digital music theory teaching
German higher education
Widening access

Scriabin (2): Tonal implications and desire for resolution in “Caresse dansée” op. 57/2

Post-tonal
Harmonic implications
Chord and function
Falling fifths sequence
Theory of desire

Tonal implications and desire for resolution in Scriabin’s late works

Post-tonal
Chord and function
Harmonic analysis
Harmonic implications

Conference paper announcement

English Baroque music
Ground bass
Folia
Popular songs
Broadside ballads

Diversity in Music Theory: a discussion

Music Theory as a discipline
Diversity/inclusivity
Institutional bias
Methodological bias

Composers vs. theorists? Is chord viiº6 a dominant 7th lacking the root?

Baroque harmony
Historically-informed analysis
Figured bass
Rule of the Octave
Chord and function

Quiz: Hearing modes in Bartók

Aural skills
Aural analysis
Ostinato
Post-tonal
Scales/modes

Beethoven and the chromatically-descending tetrachord

Classical harmony
Harmonic analysis
Roman numeral analysis
Lament bass
Chromatically-descending tetrachord

Suspensions in Baroque cadences (an example from Gottfried Keller)

Cadence
Suspension
Baroque harmony
Figured bass
Counterpoint
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