Current Courses

Fall 2024

  • MUSC 437-001
    Early Music Ensemble
  • MUSC 1120-090
    Music Theory II
  • MUSC 1913-002
    Lsns I Non Maj Keybd
  • MUSC 1943-002
    Lsns I Maj 1 Keybd
  • MUSC 1993-002
    Lsns I Maj 3 Keybd
  • MUSC 2913-002
    Lsns II Non Maj Keybd
  • MUSC 2943-002
    Lsns II Maj 1 Keybd
  • MUSC 2993-002
    Lsns II Maj 3 Keybd
  • MUSC 3560-002
    Form and Analysis
  • MUSC 3913-002
    Lsns III Non Maj Keybd
  • MUSC 3943-002
    Lsns III Maj 1 Keybd
  • MUSC 3993-002
    Lsns III Maj 3 Keybd
  • MUSC 4437-001
    Early Music Ensemble
  • MUSC 4913-002
    Lsns IV Non Maj Keybd
  • MUSC 4943-002
    Lsns IV Maj 1 Keybd
  • MUSC 4993-002
    Lsns IV Maj 3 Keybd
  • MUSC 6170-028
    Adv Lessons Nondegree
  • MUSC 6180-028
    Adv Lessons Major 1
  • MUSC 6181-028
    Secondary Lessons Maj I
  • MUSC 6190-028
    Adv Lessons Major 3
  • MUSC 6191-028
    Secondary Lesson Maj
  • MUSC 6437-001
    Early Music Ens Grad
  • MUSC 7190-028
    Doctoral Private Lesson
  • MUSC 7191-028
    Doc Secondary Lessons
  • MUSC 7210-001
    Performance Practice I

Spring 2024

Professional Organizations

  • The International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society . 09/01/2022 - present. Position : Member.
  • College of Examiners, Royal College of Music, Canada & USA. 08/31/2021 - present. Position : Adjudicator.
  • Utah Music Teachers Association. 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021. Position : NCTM, 25-Year Member, Adjudicator.
  • Music Teachers National Association. Nationally Certified Teacher (NCTM). 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2019. Position : Member & Adjudicator.
  • Music Teachers National Association. Member and Nationally Certified Teacher (NCTM). 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2018. Position : Member and adjudicator.
  • National Federation of Music Clubs. 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2018. Position : Member and adjudicator.
  • Music Teachers National Association. Member and Nationally Certified Teacher (NCTM). 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2017. Position : Member and adjudicator.
  • National Federation of Music Clubs. 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2017. Position : Member and adjudicator.
  • Music Teachers National Association. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016. Position : Member and Nationally Certified Teacher (NCTM).

Teaching Philosophy

As an undergraduate music theory and musicianship instructor, I conceptualize musical

learning from the student's perspective as the gaining of a set of practical and useful

musical skills. From this vantage point it becomes clear to me that my job as an

instructor to freshmen and sophomores is to not only teach skills that are relevant and

meaningful, but also to continually point out that these basic skills are universally

important across the spectrum of all different types of musical occupations that they

may choose to pursue. I have learned that my students have better knowledge

retention rates when I structure my theory classes to have a reasonable amount of

teacher lecturing with more student participation and interaction. My goal for my

undergraduate students is to teach them how to develop their critical thinking and

problem-solving skills. I want them to know how music is organized and composed,

from the smallest of elements up to large-scale forms. I especially want them to

understand why this knowledge is critical to their own performance and teaching, and

so in my lectures I always link this directly to how it can help them in their own live

performances.

 

With the doctoral students, my role in the teaching and learning process is somewhat

different. These students are already experienced performers and scholars, and several

of them are already working professionally as music professors at other institutions

while finishing their doctoral degree program at the U. of U. Nearly all of them would

like to pursue a career in academia and/or performing. With this in mind, every

semester I provide each student with several opportunities to lead the class in a

discussion of an assigned topic. The final project for the semester requires them to

present a 30-minute polished lecture/performance in front of their peers. They also

must write a very substantial research paper as part of this final project. My goal in the

assigning this final assignment (performance + research paper) is specifically geared to

help DMA students prepare to write their doctoral theses and present their final DMA

lecture recital.

 

In order to achieve these goals, I use a very interactive pedagogical teaching approach

in all of my classes, particularly in the Aural Skills and Musicianship courses. I make it a

priority to foster a safe and supportive learning environment, a place where students

feel free to ask questions and offer their opinions. I use the "flipped" classroom

approach to teaching and learning in my MUSC 3540 (Form and Analysis) and MUSC

7210/11 (Doctoral Performance Practice) classes. This technique requires that students

complete reading assignments before coming to class, thus reducing the amount of

lecturing. It also frees up more time for critical thinking, in-depth class discussion, and

hands-on activities.

Courses I Teach

  • MUSC 1110 - Music Theory I
    The course begins with a brief review of fundamentals and then moves on to species counterpoint (1st - and 2nd-species), basic four-part writing, and an introduction to tonal syntax.
  • MUSC 1120 - Music Theory II
    The course begins with a study of the remaining species of counterpoint (3rd-, 4th- & mixed-species). It then moves on to the study of traditional diatonic harmony through four-part writing using figured bass, unfigured bass, melody harmonization and model composition. The course also includes analysis of excerpts from the music literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • MUSC 1130 - Musicianship I
    This aural-skills course provides further development of sight-singing and dictation skills. The content of this course is coordinated with the material introduced in Music Theory I (Musc. 1110)
  • MUSC 1140 - Musicianship II
    This aural-skills course provides further development of sight-singing and dictation skills. The content of this course is coordinated with the material introduced in Music Theory II (MUSC 1120).
  • MUSC 2130 - Musicianship III
    This aural-skills course provides intensive development of chromatic sight-singing and dictation skills. The content of this course is coordinated with the material introduced in Music Theory III (MUSC 2110).
  • MUSC 2140 - Musicianship IV
    This aural-skills course provides further development & practice of sight-singing and diction skills. There are also exercises in hearing form to complement the material presented in Form & Analysis (MUSC 3540).
  • MUSC 3540 - Form and Analysis
    The course provides an introduction to the common musical forms of 18th- & 19th-century literature. Topics include small musical structures such as sentences & various periods, and larger structure such as binary forms, variations, rondo, ternary forms & sonata form. The course also introduces methods for representing musical forms such as formal diagrams and hierarchical outlines.
  • MUSC 7210 - Doctoral Performance Practice I
    Study of sources and materials specific to performance practices in music prior to 1750.
  • MUSC 7211 - Doctoral Performance Practice II
    Study of sources and materials specific to performance practices in music from 1750-1900.

Teaching Projects

  • UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANT - PIETRO CASTRUCCI World Premier Recording and Scholarly Video & Edition Project, funded by a University Research Grant (May 2021-June 2022). Project Lead: Pamela Palmer Jones. Collaborators: Gerald Elias, Noriko Kishi. University Research Grant 05/10/2021 - 06/30/2022. Total Budget: $5,100.00.
  • DEE GRANT Award with Christopher O'Riley. Project Lead: Vedrana Subotic. Collaborators: Pamela Jones. Dee Grant 03/10/2021 - 03/27/2022. Total Budget: $10,000.00.
  • UNIVERSITY TEACHING GRANT - Historical Performance Practice Pedagogical Videos Recording Project, funded by University Teaching Grant (Nov. 2020-2021) . Project Lead: Pamela Palmer Jones. University Teaching Grant (UTC) 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021. Total Budget: $3,500.00.
  • Performance Practice Videos for MUSC 7210/11 Doctoral Seminar & for MTNA. Project Lead: Dr. Pamela Jones. 07/02/2018 - 08/24/2018. Total Budget: $0.00.
  • Dee Grant: Dr. Kenneth Drake, Fortepianist & Beethoven Scholar, with Jun-Hee Han. Project Lead: Dr. Pamela Jones. Dee Grant 03/01/2018 - 03/30/2019. Total Budget: $4,744.40.

Small Group Teaching

  • Early Music Ensemble Harpsichord Instructor (solo and continuo training). My small group consisted of three students for Spring 2019 and four students for Fall 2019 Semester, including graduate student Yuhuan Xu and several undergraduate students. We alternated one-on-one lessons with small group teaching for this course, 2 hours per Week.   08/19/2019  -  12/06/2019