Melissa Hoag (she/her/hers) is Associate Professor of music theory at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where she has served as Coordinator of music theory since 2007. She has taught all levels of undergraduate and graduate music theory and aural skills, as well as courses on counterpoint, form, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century music. Her publications on counterpoint, pedagogy, and voice leading in Brahms have appeared in BACH, Music Theory Online, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Gamut, Dutch Journal of Music Theory, and The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (ed. VanHandel). She serves as reviews editor for Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy and is a Question Leader for the AP music theory exam. In addition to a PhD in music theory, she also holds a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion through Cornell University.

Foreword
PHILIP EWELL

Introduction
MELISSA HOAG

1 Our Field at Its Best
TERESA L. REED

PART ONE: Fundamentals and Diatonic Harmony

2 Rethinking Music Fundamentals: Centering the Contributions of Black Musicians
UZEE BROWN JR.

3 Change from the Middle, Right from the Beginning: Strategies for Incorporating Black Composers in a Music Fundamentals Course
ROBIN ATTAS

4 Rhiannon Giddens and Francis "Frank" Johnson in the First-Year Theory Classroom
JAN MIYAKE

5 From Counterpoint to Small Forms: A Cross-Stylistic Approach to Centering Black Artists in the Theory Core
KRISTINA L. KNOWLES AND NICHOLAS J. SHEA

PART TWO: Chromaticism and Other Advanced Topics

6 Modal Mixture
MITCHELL OHRINER

7 "Elite Syncopations" and "Euphonic Sounds": Scott Joplin in the Aural Skills Classroom
AMY FLEMING

8 Modulation
ALAN REESE

PART THREE: Form 97

9 A Jazz-Specific Lens: Methodological Diversity in the Music Theory Core
BEN GEYER

10 Of Simple Forms and Firsts: On Francis Johnson and Harry Burleigh
HORACE J. MAXILE, JR.

11 A Trio of Art Songs on Texts by Langston Hughes
MELISSA HOAG

12 Teaching Sonatas Beyond "Mostly Mozart"
AARON GRANT AND CATRINA KIM

PART FOUR: Popular Music

13 Expanding the Scope of Analysis in the Popular Music Classroom
ZACHARY ZINSER

14 Formal Structures and Narrative Design in Janelle Monáe's The ArchAndroid CORA S. PALFY

15 Diving Deeper into Rhythm and Meter Through Drum Parts in Twenty-First-Century Pop
DAVID GEARY

16 Developing Contemporary Rhythm Skills Through Contemporary R&B
TREVOR DE CLERCQ

17 Structural Shifts and Identity in Music by Ester Rada
ROSA ABRAHAMS

PART FIVE: Twentieth-Century Music

18 Inclusivity and the "Perfect Teaching Piece" in the Undergraduate Post-Tonal Classroom
CARA STROUD

19 Dream Variations: An Analytical Exploration of Florence Price's "My Dream"
LEIGH VANHANDEL

20 Teaching Twentieth-Century Stylistic Pluralism Through the Music of George Walker
OWEN BELCHER

21 Teaching Julia Perry's Homunculus C.F.
KENDRA PRESTON LEONARD

Index