Acknowledgments
Authorship
The authorship of OMT is not quite like other textbooks. This was a collaborative venture that brought together many people. The authors listed on our front cover wrote the majority of the chapters, but we have additional contributors that wrote some chapters as well. For this reason, each chapter of the book is attributed to the specific people who primarily authored that chapter.
The primary authors of the book were each responsible for leading the writing and editing of certain sections, as follows:
- Workbook: Dr. Gullings
- Fundamentals: Dr. Hamm
- Counterpoint and Galant Schemas: Dr. Gotham
- Form: Dr. Jarvis and Dr. Peterson
- Diatonic Harmony, Tonicization, and Modulation: Dr. Peterson
- Chromaticism: Dr. Jarvis and Dr. Hughes
- Jazz: Dr. Lavengood
- Popular Music: Dr. Hughes and Dr. Lavengood
- 20th- and 21st-c. Techniques: Dr. Gotham and Dr. Lavengood
- Twelve-tone Music: Dr. Gotham
- Orchestration: Dr. Gotham
Contributors
Many people contributed to this text beyond the authors. Their names and contributions are listed below.
- Brian Moseley, OMT Version 1 author
- Kris Shaffer, OMT Version 1 author
- Brice Bach, MuseScore typesetting
- Samuel Brady, joint author of several chapters in the Fundamentals section, as well as the Twentieth-Century Rhythmic Techniques chapter
- Ben Corbin, video
- Gabriel Gravini, worksheet editing
- Scott Hanenberg, author of the Drumbeats chapter
- Helen Hazard, worksheet editing
- Michael Kahle, examples for tonal analysis worksheets
- John Kocur, author of the Chord-Scale Theory chapter
- Levi Langolf, joint author of the Examples for Sight-Counting and Sight-Singing: Level 1 and Examples for Sight-Counting and Sight-Singing: Level 2 chapters
- Sarah Louden, graphics
- Fe Miranda, MuseScore typesetting
- Nathaniel Mitchell, video editing and graphics
- Christina Ortiz, MuseScore typesetting
- Emma Pivetta, research assistant
- Brendan Schnabel, teaching and research assistant piloting Jazz chapters
- Garrett Schumann, music examples
- Matthew Shelley, editing
- Silvana Uhorchuk, MuseScore typesetting
- Evan Williams, Python scripts
- Julian Cruz, interactive examples in the Fundamentals section
- Kaiya Keckler, interactive examples in the Fundamentals section
- Zach Gist, joint author of the Graphic Notation and Scores chapter and interactive examples in the Fundamentals section
- Kyong Mee Choi, Malcolm Goldstein, Henrik Colding-Jørgensen, Dimitris Maronidis, Julien Monette, John Dante Prevedini, and Maxwell Tfirn for free use of their compositions in the Graphic Notation and Scores chapter
- Fifth Bridge Electro-acoustic Trumpet Ensemble for free use of one of their recordings in the Graphic Notation and Scores chapter
Artwork
The cover, logo, and related imagery were designed by Bethany Nistler. All rights reserved.
Financial Support
Version 2
Funding for Version 2 came primarily from a Course Redesign grant from Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium (VIVA). The Office of Research and Creative Activity at Christopher Newport University provided $500 for a recording for the Graphic Notation and Scores chapter.
Version 1
Major funding and technological support (including the building of the technology behind the interactive music notation modules found in Version 1) came from the team at Trinket.
The first major edition of OMT was made possible financially by a crowdfunding campaign in the summer of 2014. Many thanks to the donors who supported the project (listed on the about page of Version 1).
