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CLASSES

MUSIC B23 - Appreciation of Jazz • Bakersfield College • Spring 2008
........Class Handouts:
Syllabus, Listening Guide for Course CDs, Concert Review Assignment,
........Chronology of Jazz and Civil Rights, Akpoka/Ewe Orchestra

MUSIC B13 - Jazz Ensemble • Bakersfield College • Spring 2008
........Class Handouts:
Syllabus & Concert Dates

MUSIC B27 - History of American Popular Music • Bakersfield College • Spring 2008
........Class Handouts:
Syllabus, Research Paper, Akpoka, Blues Lyrics, Jazz/Country Lyrics,
........R&B/Early Rock Lyrics, Soul/60s Rock Lyrics, Folk/Psychedelic Rock Lyrics

MUSIC 310 - Music in the Elementary Classroom • CSUB Extended University • Spring 2008
........Class Handouts:
Syllabus, Staff Paper, Composers, Jazz Musicians, Saxophones
........California Content Standards for Music Education
........Take-Home Assignments #1-4
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Articles:
#1, #2, #3, #4


ESSAYS AND RESEARCH

THE SOUL AND THE SYSTEM / All At Once
Blog: September 2007 - present: Writings on Creative Music, Improvisation, and Integral Theory

STOP THE PLAY AND WATCH THE AUDIENCE
Blog: July 2005 - September 2007: Music, Touring, Performing, Teaching, Culture, Politics, etc.

Creative Music and American Mysticism
My Listmania List at Amazon.com - really, a collection of books that have been very important to me.

More updates coming soon...

 

RECENT COMPOSITIONS AND PROGRAM NOTES

Don't Hesitate to Change Your Mind (PDF score)
For Bb and Eb winds, contrabass, percussion, and electronics, recorded by the Empty Cage Quartet in August, 2006. Notes and performance instructions can be downloaded here.

Quadrants (For Ken Wilber) (PDF score)
A four-part composition for trumpet and prepared acoustic guitar, recorded by Kris Tiner and Mike Baggetta on the CD There, Just As You Look For It .

Open Forms (PDF score)
A recent composition for creative orchestra, commissioned by the Academy of Creative Education Large Ensemble in July 2005.

Days Between (program notes, PDF score, mp3)
A composition for three alto flutes + solo dancer, written for Andrea Lieberherr in December 2002.

The Three Sessions
Kris Tiner (trumpet), Douglas Kearney (voice), and Paul Kikuchi (percussion) - a project exploring improvisational connections in language and music, November 2002. All six takes are now posted here as mp3s.

Echoes and Echoes of Echoes (PDF score)
A composition for solo drumset, written for Harris Eisenstadt in May 2002.

Pitch Centering Exercises for Trumpet