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December 3, 2021February 6, 2024Ethnomusicology LP&A, Lesson plans and activities

Introduction to World Music | Discussion: Music & Meaning | City College | Fall 2021

Low-stakes written assignment that functions as an “in-class” activity for asynchronous course. Comes in 3rd week of class, after reading about music’s […]

December 1, 2021February 6, 2024Assignments, Ethnomusicology assignments

Music in Global America | Podcast Research Project | Brooklyn College | Spring 2020

Students engage in-depth with a new or previously discussed musical topic by conducting research and recording an “audio-documentary” podcast on it. Students […]

November 30, 2021February 6, 2024Ethnomusicology syllabuses, Syllabuses

Music in Global America | Syllabus | Brooklyn College | Spring 2020

Syllabus & course schedule for MUSC 3101: Music in Global America. Course serves as introduction to contemporary ethnomusicology & anthropological literature, for […]

October 12, 2021June 6, 2023Ethnomusicology syllabuses, Syllabuses

Introduction to World Music | Syllabus & Schedule | City College | Fall 2021

This syllabus & schedule is presented to students as a Google doc. In the first week of the semester I ask students […]

September 17, 2021February 6, 2024Assignments, Musicology assignments

Introduction to Music | Musical Elements Assignment | Queens College | Spring 21

A definition-focused worksheet about the musical elements based on vocabulary from the textbook Music: A Social Experience, 2nd ed. by Steven Cornelius […]

September 16, 2021February 6, 2024Lesson plans and activities, Music theory LP&A

Sight Singing 1 | Tonic Triad Arpeggiation Exercise | Queens College | Fall 2021

Sheet with various permutations of the major-key tonic triad arpeggio, including iterations that start on all three chord members. Used in class […]

September 16, 2021February 6, 2024Musicology syllabuses, Syllabuses

A Thousand Years of Listening | Syllabus | Hunter College | Fall 2021

15-week long course (Fall) taught online synchronously. The course is a survey of Western art music for non-music majors and incorporates a […]

September 16, 2021February 6, 2024Music theory syllabuses, Syllabuses

Sight Singing 1 | Syllabus | Queens College | Fall 2021

Syllabus used for the sight singing portion of MUSIC 171 at the Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music. MUSIC 171 is […]

July 25, 2021February 6, 2024Assignments, Musicology assignments

Introduction to Music | “Music and… Playlist” Assignment | Queens College | Spring 2021

The Music and… Playlist is a semester-long scaffolded writing assignment that I designed to replace a midterm and final exam. (Scaffolding refers […]

July 25, 2021February 6, 2024Music theory syllabuses, Syllabuses

Music Theory Fundamentals | Hunter College | Fall 2020

Syllabus for online synchronous edition of the introductory music theory course for non-majors. Instructor: Stephen Gomez Course: Music Theory Fundamentals (MUSTH 101)

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