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Here is a small collection of handouts, documents and compositions.  If you use them, please give credit where credit is due.  If you perform any of the music, please let me know (and I'd love a recording)!

Teaching Stuff

Standard Operating Procedures Summer 2017
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This is the "second syllabus" that I've developed over the last few years teaching at Lakeland Community College.  I make regular revisions and include it in my course packets for Music Appreciation and Popular Music.  It contains the "how" and "why" of the work that students will be doing, while the official syllabus sticks to the "what" of the course.  I think it is something, that if students hold onto it, could be useful in other classes.  Since I get many students who are in college for the first time during the semester I see them, there are things that fall into "how to be a college student" that just don't belong in the specific syllabus for a course, but need to be put out there.

Useful Handouts (Popular Music and Music Appreciation)

Tin Pan Alley Song Form
File Size: 51 kb
File Type: pdf
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Digital and Analog
File Size: 83 kb
File Type: pdf
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Melody and Motive
File Size: 26 kb
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The Elements of Music
File Size: 36 kb
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Twelve-Bar Blues
File Size: 73 kb
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Useful Handouts (Fundamentals and First-Year Theory)

The Inversion Song
File Size: 43 kb
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Transposing Instruments Handout
File Size: 60 kb
File Type: pdf
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Slurs Handout
File Size: 80 kb
File Type: pdf
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Ties and Rests Handout
File Size: 71 kb
File Type: pdf
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Harmonic Function Handout
File Size: 35 kb
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Secondary Functions Handout
File Size: 131 kb
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Introduction to Figured Bass
File Size: 183 kb
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More Useful Handouts (After First-year Theory)

Rules for Species Counterpoint
File Size: 45 kb
File Type: pdf
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March Form Handout
File Size: 44 kb
File Type: pdf
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Text-Setting Basics
File Size: 62 kb
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Harmonic Analysis Example: A Handel Flute Sonata
File Size: 357 kb
File Type: pdf
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Fugue Terminology and Analysis
File Size: 876 kb
File Type: pdf
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Edition Fair
File Size: 476 kb
File Type: pdf
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Gamer Troll Loses Control

Click here to read the original story behind my 2021 composition Gamer Troll Loses Control. Read to my daughter, age 7, as a bedtime story with satisfactory results.

An Original Composition (S.D.G.)

Words of Faith--four sacred a cappella pieces (SATB)
File Size: 115 kb
File Type: pdf
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My Research--Quintuplous Meter

Quintuplous Meter Poster
File Size: 237 kb
File Type: pdf
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Quintuplous Meter Performer's Note
File Size: 24 kb
File Type: pdf
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