Uncategorized Quest for Zoom Audio Perfection 17 Sep 2020 Warning: This post is not for the faint of heart. After Zoom released a recent update that finally enabled high-fidelity audio, I went on a quest to up my audio…
Uncategorized Space 30 Sep 20161 Oct 2016 This week has been an exciting one for students, faculty, and staff at the TCU School of Music. We had the pleasure of hosting John Corigliano in residency for a…
Uncategorized Time 14 Sep 201614 Sep 2016 My graduate seminar on Music and Meaning has recently been reading Raymond Monelle's chapter "The Temporal Image" from hisĀ The Sense of MusicĀ , which has me thinking about time. According to…
Uncategorized Overworld music in the time of augmented reality gaming 29 Aug 201631 Aug 2016 It's the age old (well, "old" in terms of video games) question: Can the character I'm controlling in the game hear the music that I'm hearing? When you think of…
Uncategorized Directional Tonality and Wolf 8 Sep 2015 My graduate music analysis class is discussing Wolf's "Mir ward gesagt" in class today. The song starts in a most ambiguous way, seemingly signaling G major before adding a minor…
Uncategorized In-class Song Analysis with Nested Groups 2 Sep 20152 Sep 2015 Sometimes you get so excited about a teaching idea that you just have to share. My Sophomore theory class is embarking on the topic of mode mixture for the next…