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Will Mason

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Latest Issues

My favorite music released in 2023

At this point I’ve given up saying “surely next year will be an improvement” every December 31st. Every album on this list helped me stay inspired, hopeful, sharp, and grateful during a time when the world seems to be sucking up as much of...

2 years ago
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How I teach improvisation in my music theory coursework

This post is about teaching improvisation in my classes and particularly in my third-semester music theory class, but the spoiler is that as far as I’m concerned, I don’t. As I tell my students, I teach ear training, and improvisation is ho...

3 years ago
3

On preparing for graduate study in music theory

Teaching students versus (?) teaching teachers

I spend a lot of time thinking about what I want my music theory students to learn, to think about, to do. I’ve written about that a bit here. I like to think of my teaching as ecumenical an...

3 years ago
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A playlist for Modernist Music Skeptics

This semester I’m teaching my course on 20th century Western music, which I title “Musical Modernisms and Postmodernisms.” It’s one of my favorite courses to teach and I have a wonderful group of students. Right now we’re in the thick of ou...

3 years ago
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Musicianship skills I think every college music major in the US should have

Sometimes when I talk to colleagues about music theory and musicianship curricula (ours at Wheaton; curricula at other schools), I orient the conversation around the prompt: “What do we want our graduating music majors to be able to do?” Th...

3 years ago
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    musician and professor at Wheaton College (MA). Interests include music theory, jazz, electronic music (especially aesthetic theories), 4E perception + cognition, a.i., music theory + music tech pedagogy, politics, US higher ed.

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