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Cheek of Nut's avatar

this was a cool read, thank you! interesting to see some of your thinking on how you would do things differently. also very intimidating as a musician to see how challenging even a basic theory class would be for me 😂

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Ethan Hein's avatar

To be clear, this is a level two class, not the intro class. Still, it's a lot of material and it moves fast! NYU is not playing around.

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Cheek of Nut's avatar

good to know!

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Henry Balme's avatar

This was really cool and insightful to read. I’m curious to hear more about what schemata (in the Gjerdingen sense?) you covered - are there any resources you’ve found useful?

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Ethan Hein's avatar

The syllabus is referring to pop chord progressions that are common enough to have their own names: the Axis progression, the doo-wop progression, etc: https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2024/identifying-standard-pop-chord-progressions/

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Henry Balme's avatar

Thanks for directing me to your blog post -- I'll have a closer look at it. Very cool to see what you're doing over at NYU

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