Academia The other side of the tenure tracks Music theorists with PhDs have some incredible, important, in-demand skills to offer outside of music faculty jobs. Bringing those skills to those jobs is a success, not a failure, especially if it helps you improve your or your family's life.
Academia So you want to be a music theory professor... We tend to think of getting a PhD in a field, but not landing a tenure-track gig in that field, as a failure. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Ear Training Promoting musical fluency -or- Why I de-emphasize sight-singing and dictation in class Sight-singing and dictation are staples of university-level musical training. While it is a worthy ambition to "see what you hear and hear what you see," as many state on their aural skills syllabus, I believe that there is a better goal to pursue: musical fluency. And while the
