Spring 2010

Quarter Note Staff – Spring 2010 Issue

Feb. 27, 2010—The Blair Quarter Note, the newsletter of the Blair School of Music, is published twice a year in cooperation with Development and Alumni Relations Communications for alumni, current students and their parents and other friends of the School. The Blair Quarter Note, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2010 © 2010 by Vanderbilt University. All rights...

A Different Language to Learn

Feb. 27, 2010—Seniors Alyssa Weinberg, Matt Clark and Ben Hart are exploring septuplets in Marianne Ploger’s advanced ear training and sight singing class. Referring to Robert Starer’s Rhythmic Training, they count and clap together, examining rhythm in a basic way. “Ta! Ta! Ta-ta-ta-ta!” the student trio intones, all the while lightly clapping their hands on their thighs....

Tutti: News About Faculty and Staff

Feb. 27, 2010—Faculty Gregory Barz, associate professor of musicology (ethnomusicology), conducted field research this summer in Rwanda related to the role of music in the genocide of 1994. In addition, he spent the month of July in Lugano, Switzerland, as a Franklin Fellow in Global Citizenship. In September, Barz conducted a weeklong residency in Los Angeles as...