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About the HarMArchive for Pedagogically Inspired Music Theories

The HarMArchive for Pedagogically Inspired Music Theories aims to bring together practically applicable music theory approaches.

Music theory, as an academic discipline, and music theory, as a pedagogical discipline, stand somewhat apart. Music theory as research is practised by specialists who have acquired the relevant academic preparation. However, music theory subjects are often taught in music universities by people for whom music theory is not their main field of activity – composers, choral conductors, and performers. Due to the lack of scientific experience, such music theory teachers often cannot understand and integrate the latest scientific achievements in music theory into their teaching. Academic researchers are primarily interested in the phenomenon under study and less in its pedagogical application, so research results are formulated in a specific professional language, often incomprehensible to a musician without a deep knowledge of the relevant field.

The goal of HarMArchive is to fill this gap and encourage (1) original approaches to music theory in which pedagogical applicability is an important part or (2) pedagogical applications of existing theories that convey the results formulated in the original theory. The founders of HarMArchive are convinced that one of the main values of any theory explaining music lies in its pedagogical applicability, as this guarantees the theory’s participation in the wider musical culture or, in other words, its vitality.

HarMArchive brings together approaches from all traditional areas of music theory (ear training, solfeggio, harmony, counterpoint, analysis of form), but it also welcomes approaches from new and unconventional areas. Publication guidelines can be found below.

See here for a more detailed description of the journal.