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Mark M. Parker
The South Carolina School of the Arts
The South Carolina School of the Arts
Adjunct Professor of Music
mparker@andersonuniversity.edu
- mparker@andersonuniversity.edu
Academic Background
PhD, University of North Texas
MA, University of Rochester
BA, Bob Jones University
Teaching at AU
What year did you start teacing at AU?
2021
How would you describe your classes to someone who has never attended one?
Fun and funny, yet serious, guided by knowledge and a passion to give students what will really help them as performers and communicators, with a lot of interaction and feedback; engaging, with a mutual understanding that we are on this pathway together and an understood assumption that we do not want any casualties: everyone is important, everyone is responsible for learning, and together we will build bridges to knowledge; prior knowledge or lack of knowledge should not be an impediment, as we will strive to create pathways to a mastery of concepts that matter. Hopefully I can communicate both the larger context of learning and the value of music theory to the students as practicing musicians and performers.
Contact
mparker@andersonuniversity.edu
Fast Facts
Fun and funny, yet serious, guided by knowledge and a passion to give students what will really help them as performers and communicators, with a lot of interaction and feedback; engaging, with a mutual understanding that we are on this pathway together and an understood assumption that we do not want any casualties: everyone is important, everyone is responsible for learning, and together we will build bridges to knowledge; prior knowledge or lack of knowledge should not be an impediment, as we will strive to create pathways to a mastery of concepts that matter. Hopefully I can communicate both the larger context of learning and the value of music theory to the students as practicing musicians and performers.
MUT 101 Theory and Musicianship I
MUT 103 Theory and Musicianship II
AU is a local Christian university that aspires to excellence in its academic curricula and accompanying courses and that also highly values its bold testimony of the power of God to change lives through regeneration that comes from hearing the gospel and receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
The fluent understanding of music theory can empower performing musicians, informing their performance in tangible ways. It illuminates details along the pathways of performance and thus is liberating in that it can suggest a range of interpretive options.
the people: students, faculty, and staff
anticipated self-publication of a text formerly used as required text in two graduate-level courses in music theory; title is Compositional and Stylistic Foundations of Western Music