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Critical Listening and Students: Popular Music and Form

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Paul Carr

In preparation for a musicology lecture this week, I began to think about the importance of students having an awareness of the general conventions in popular music. Factors such as an awareness of the commonality of eight bar sections (verses … Continue reading →

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The Elements of Music: How can we use them to discuss ‘interest’ in a piece of music?

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Paul Carr

This post concerns the elements of music, and the ways in which they are prioritised to indoctrinate interest in a piece of music. How can we use the elements that for most are so familiar, to begin to analyse popular … Continue reading →

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Music Analysis and the Elements of Music

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Paul Carr

Like I have done for the last few years, I gave my annual lecture to my musicology class regarding the ways that the Elements of Music (EOM) can be a good starting point for analysis. In the UK, the EOM … Continue reading →

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