Here you will find assorted works, writings and analyses on a wide range of topics & issues.

LINKS for CHILDREN

 

EDUCATIONAL TOPICS
**A Note for All Students**

Why Music Education (for the MLC)
Useful Study Tips
Christian's Contributions to the MLC

*Math for the Sake of Music (not Music for the Sake of Math)

PRESENTATIONS & HANDOUTS

Introduction to Western European Medeival Music and Manuscripts [3MB .pps]
Reference Chart: Development of Medieval Polyphony (800-1400)
A General Chart of Rounded Binary Forms
A Colloquially Hip Synopsis of Mozart/da Pontes' Don Giovanni for MUS-109

Listening Practice Sheet

Quick Reference Grammar Sheet - For whom did I write this?

 

Blues Theory - Idiomatic development of the Blues.

Introduction to Combo Instruments - guitars, basses, amps
Football for Musicians - Humor, maybe...

MLC Study Materials

COMPOSITIONS - requires Finale
I Know (2003)- SSA - for jr. high/High School choirs
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind (1990) - Voice & 8-string guitar

 

VIDEOS & AUDIO

Solar Plexus [15 MB](Nottingham, UK 1990-91) - Bassist and Lead Vocalist
Nero's House Band [5 MB] (Minneapolis, 1993-1996) - Bassist / backing vocals
Green Pyramids [5MB] (Minneapolis, 1996-2000) - Bassist / backing vocals
Minnesota Chorale

Unplublished drafts (Copyright)
The Three Worlds of Mozart's Horn Concerti - December 2003
La Mal Practica Ragion - Apotheosis of Reason in Figaro - 2004

A Comparison of Leporello and Giovanni - April 2004
The Entreprenurial Comey Brothers in Tudor England - Dec. 2003

 

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS & FRAGMENTS
MS 19 - [acquisition no. 753632] at the University of Minnesota

 

SYLLABI
My Grading Philosophy
Syllabus for Mus 319 - From Chant to Mozart
Syllabus for Mus 109-S - Analytical Survey of Western Art Music
Syllabus for Mus 118 - American Popular Music
Syllabus for Mus Honors Seminar - Art Music from 800-1750

WEBSITE DESIGNS

Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest
Swans in World Myths (2004 project)
U-Jive - University of Minnesota School of Music Grad School Organization (2005)