80 episodes

Note Doctors is a podcast all about music theory and music theory pedagogy. Each episode features an interview with an innovative music theory instructor. The podcast is hosted by three university theory instructors: Paul Thomas, Jenn Weaver, and Ben Graf.

Note Doctors Paul Thomas

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    • 4.7 • 36 Ratings

Note Doctors is a podcast all about music theory and music theory pedagogy. Each episode features an interview with an innovative music theory instructor. The podcast is hosted by three university theory instructors: Paul Thomas, Jenn Weaver, and Ben Graf.

    Episode 80: Summer Book Club - What the Best College Teachers Do (Chapters 1 & 2)

    Episode 80: Summer Book Club - What the Best College Teachers Do (Chapters 1 & 2)

    Paul, Jenn, and Ben begin our summer-long bookclub by discussing the first two chapters of Ken Bain's "What the Best College Teachers Do."

    • 37 min
    Episode 79: 2024 Shorts Shorts 2

    Episode 79: 2024 Shorts Shorts 2

    In this summer short, Paul flies solo - giving an in-depth breakdown of the Note Doctors theme music. Hang on tight as Paul digs into funky bass lines, the fifth mode of the melodic minor scale, and even a little Neo-Riemannian theory.

    • 21 min
    Episode 78: 2024 Summer Shorts 1

    Episode 78: 2024 Summer Shorts 1

    Paul, Jenn, and Ben kick off our series of summer shorts by recapping some of the highlights from the past Pedagogy into Practice Conference.

    • 27 min
    Episode 77: Live at Pedagogy into Practice

    Episode 77: Live at Pedagogy into Practice

    Listen in on Paul, Jenn, and Ben's panel discussion "Conversation's in Music Theory: More than just talking" from the 2024 Pedagogy into Practice Conference.

    • 52 min
    Episode 76: Brian Jarvis - New ways of approaching form and timbre

    Episode 76: Brian Jarvis - New ways of approaching form and timbre

    Paul, Jenn, and Ben talk with Dr. Brian Jarvis, Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at El Paso, about his work in creating new and engaging ways to visually represent musical form and timbre, specifically his programs BriFormer and Auralayer.

    • 1 hr 12 min
    Episode 75: Favorite Christmas-themed music theory examples

    Episode 75: Favorite Christmas-themed music theory examples

    Paul, Ben, and Jenn celebrate the season (and being done with the semester) by sharing the Christmas songs they like to use as examples in the music theory or aural skills classroom. Songs include Silent Night, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Greensleeves, and This Christmas.

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
36 Ratings

36 Ratings

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Uncle Paul is awesome

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love it

dr graf is the best!

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Summer Book Club

The last summer book club episodes are really interesting and amazing. I've recently discovered this podcast and have been catching up with all of them lately. At first I was intrigued but after awhile I was disappointed with the overemphasis on 18th century tonal theory. The "awakening" they discuss in the last summer book club episodes are really great and heart felt. I'm now hooked and can't wait for the next ones to come out. The keys they discovered are not DEI to just bring nonwhite people to 18th century tonal harmony or find pop songs that exemplify it. Music theory should include artistic music achievement and styles from all regions of the world. Also 18th century tonal harmony is over and should now just be a historical introduction to the European music traditions of the 20th/21th century. I believe the persistent focus on pre 1900 theory only perpetuates classical music being stuck as a museum artifact. Thanks for a really good podcast!!

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