{"id":77,"date":"2013-04-08T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:19:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T05:19:39","slug":"music-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/music-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Music Theory<\/h1>\n<p>Music theory is a strange child in music education. Many teachers ignore her, yet she is basic to everything in music. The basic ideas in music theory can be taught to a kindergartner, yet music majors and minors sit in college classes learning music theory that no one taught them for the last ten years while they were learning their instruments in grade school. <\/p>\n<h2>Fundamentals of music theory for all musicians:<\/h2>\n<p>Order of sharps and flats<br \/>\nWrite all major and minor scales and play them on your instrument.<br \/>\nRead time values of notes and rests.<br \/>\nIdentify time and key signatures<br \/>\nKnow the meanings of tempo markings (i.e. allegro, andante, largo etc.)<br \/>\nKnow the meaning of dynamic markings (pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff)<br \/>\nKnow how to write basic major triads I, IV, V7 in any key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Theory Music theory is a strange child in music education. Many teachers ignore her, yet she is basic to everything in music. The basic ideas in music theory can be taught to a kindergartner, yet music majors and minors sit in college classes learning music theory that no one taught them for the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-music-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dqf-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}