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Summary
This workgroup explores the challenges and opportunities presented by teaching timbre. One of its key aims is to assemble a repository of syllabi and assignments.
Update February, 2024: the Teaching Timbre Topics educational modules can be found on the Timbre and Orchestration Resource here.
Workgroup Leaders
Emily Dolan and Alex Rehding
contact: emily_dolan[at]brown.edu
Overview
What does it mean to teach timbre? This working group was launched by a working group session in July 2021. In advance of the session, syllabuses exploring timbre by Jenny Beavers, Emily Dolan, Bob Hasegawa, Megan Levangood, Judy Lochhead, Stephen McAdams, and Landon Morrison were made available. During the session, each syllabus creator will gave a short (5-minute) lightning talk discussing their course design and their teaching experience before the session opened up for a broader discussion about timbral syllabus design. In particular, participants were encouraged to share specific assignments that were particularly effective: these were individual reading or listening assignments, in-class exercises, creative assignments, etc. The goal of this working group is to create a useful repository of both syllabuses and assignments that others can draw on in their teaching.
Subgroups
TBD
Active or Envisioned Projects
Creation of repository of syllabi and assignments
Creation of Teaching Timbre Topics modules and sub-modules
Connect
SLACK Channel
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