Music Theory in Higher Education with Professor Ian Pace

Professor Ian Pace is a concert pianist, Trustee of the Society of Music Analysis, and Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City St. George’s University in London. We discuss the teaching of music theory and composition technique at the university level. Both Professor Pace and I are speaking in a personal capacity rather than speaking on behalf of the institutions that we work for.We explore the benefits of studying music theory, the function of keyboard skills, and Ian's ideas for a Practice Excellence Framework which could, in theory, help to reimagine how music composition is approached at the HE level.Here are some links that Professor Pace has asked me to share in the description of this podcast:General: repository of articles is at https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/view/creators_id/ian=2Epace=2E1.html ; blog at https://ianpace.wordpress.com/ ; Substack (which is taking over from the blog) at https://substack.com/Specific: Oxford talk on music and HE: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/30326/Article advocating the Practice Excellence Framework: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/29674/My recent ‘The Art of Judgment’: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/37497/ and https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/37498/