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, first author of the Roman Numerals and SATB Chord Construction, and Texture chapters, and third author of the The Basics of Sight-singing and Dictation chapter
- Ben Corbin, video
- Paul Curran, editing
- 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, author of the Examples for Sight-Counting and Sight-Singing: Level 1 and Examples for Sight-Counting and Sight-Singing: Level 2 chapters
- John Lopez, video
- Sarah Louden, graphics
- Aaron Loveless, editing
- Fe Miranda, MuseScore typesetting
- Nathaniel Mitchell, video editing and graphics
- Christina Ortiz, MuseScore typesetting
- Emma Pivetta, research assistant
- David Randolph, worksheet editing
- Lauren Reynolds, editing
- Brendan Schnabel, teaching and research assistant piloting Jazz chapters
- Garrett Schumann, music examples
- Matthew Shelley, editing
- Jacob Tews, video
- Silvana Uhorchuk, MuseScore typesetting
- Evan Williams, Python scripts
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).
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).
