I first matriculated at the Eastman School of Music in September of 2006. Below is a history of my work while at Eastman during the Spring & Summer 2007 semester.

CMP413 - Compositional Practices circa 1955-1980 (Prof. Robert Morris):

• Week 6: Score and mp3 of Isomorphisms, a composition where rhythm is subject to formal procedures
• Week 13: Score and mp3 of Jazz Odyssey, a composition using indeterminant procedures, new instrumental resources, and new forms of notation
• Week 14: Handout and script for presentation on Michael Nyman
• Week 15: Score and mp3 of Subliminimal, a composition involving aspects of minimalism

 
JCM441 - Advanced History and Analysis of Jazz (Prof. Jeff Campbell):

• Week 3: Transcription of Lionel Hampton’s vibraphone solo from the 1936 Benny Goodman recording of “Dinah”
• Week 3: Transcription of Benny Goodman’s clarinet solo and Lionel Hampton’s vibraphone solo from the 1936 Benny Goodman recording of “Sweet Sue”
• Week 3: Transcription of Benny Goodman’s clarinet solo from the 1939 Benny Goodman recording of “Seven Come Eleven”
• Week 3: Handout for presentation on the small groups recordings of Benny Goodman
• Week 6: Final paper topic proposal: Counterpoint in the rhythm guitar playing of Freddie Green
• Week 7: Handout for presentation on Charlie Christian
• Week 11: Handout for presentation on Freddie Green
• Week 11: Essay on the Improvised Counterpoint of Freddie Green
• Week 11: Transcription of rhythm guitar and bass parts from Count Basie’s “Count’s Place”
• Week 11: Transcription of rhythm guitar and bass parts from Count Basie’s “Oh, Lady Be Good”
• Week 11: Transcription of rhythm guitar and bass parts from Count Basie’s “Secrets”
• Week 11: Transcription of rhythm guitar and bass parts from Count Basie’s “Tally Ho, Mr. Basie!”
• Week 11: Transcription of rhythm guitar and bass parts from Count Basie’s “What’cha Talkin’”

(Thanks are due to Michael Pettersen of freddiegreen.org for some tweaks to the Freddie Green transcriptions that he suggested over the summer of 2007).

 
MUY590 - Bach Cantatas and Chorale Preludes (Prof. Dan Zager):

• Week 4: Handout for presentation on the cantatas of Dietrich Buxtehude
• Week 9: Handout for presentation on the cantatas of Christoph Graupner
• Week 13: Final paper comparing J. S. Bach’s cantata BWV 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, to Graupner’s cantata on the same text by Georg Lehms

 
TH521 - Pedagogy of Music Theory (Prof. Steven Laitz):

• Week 1: Questions on the general approach of music theory
• Week 3: Sample homework assignment on fundamentals (intervals)
• Week 4: Sample quiz on fundamentals (meter and intervals)
• Week 6: Sample lecture on the fundamentals topic of non-harmonic tones
• Week 9: Sample quiz on aural skills (melodic and rhythmic dictation)
• Week 10: Take-home exam on fundamentals and aural skills textbooks
• Week 11: Follow-up on aural skills class observation
• Week 11: Sample lecture on aural skills (intro to four-part singing and hearing phrases with cadences)
• Week 13: Sample homework on harmony
• Week 15: Sample lecture on harmony (mixture)
• Week 15: Take-home exam on harmony textbooks

 
MUY590 - Stravinsky: His Debts and His Debtors (Prof. Truman Bullard):

• Week 3: Script and handout for presentation on the Septet (1953) by Igor Stravinsky
• Week 3: Listening journal for four works by Stravinsky: Les Noces, Ragtime, Piano Rag, and Pulcinella
• Week 3: Listening journal for two works by Stravinsky: Octet and Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra
• Week 3: Listening journal for five works by Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements, Three Songs from William Shakespeare, In memoriam Dylan Thomas, Movements for Piano and Orchestra, and Elegy for JFK
• Week 5: Handout for presentation on Stravinsky’s influence as seen in James MacMillan
• Week 6: Final Paper on Stravinsky’s influence as seen in James MacMillan