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The Virtual Conservatory (VC) is a team of college music theory professors, K-12 music teachers, composers, and multimedia engineers dedicated to developing cutting-edge digital materials for music learning. We have devoted years of work and over $500,000 in investment to our print-digital college music theory textbook, Mastering Tonal Music . With a suite of Unicode music-analysis fonts already on the market, we will publish our AP Music Theory Review by March 2012 through Study by App (SBA). SBA is a producer of mostly K-12 educational content for iPad, iPhone, and similar personal digital devices, as exhibited at www.studybyapp.com.
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John Clevenger completed his doctorate in music theory at the Eastmand School of Music, where his dissertation was a study of the origin of Claude Debussy's style. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Virtual Conservatory (VC).
Benjamin Ayotte completed his doctorate in music theory at Michigan State University; his dissertation is an exploration of the compositional teqhnique of Heinrich Schenker, exhibited in a selection of his songs for voice and piano. He is a software engineer and content consultant for the Virtual Conservatory. He has published articles and reviews in Acta Musicologica, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and Artes Fontis Musicæ as well as a book-legth bibliography on Heinrich Schenker with Routledge.
Paula Telesco received her B.A. in Music from SUNY College Buffalo, her M.M. in Music Theory from the University of Arizona, and her Ph.D. in Music Theory from The Ohio State University, where her dissertation earned a "Dissertation of the Year" award.
Professor Telesco's areas of specialty include the history of music theory, analysis of 18th century music, and the pedagogy of music theory and aural skills acquisition. She has given presentations on these topics at various music conferences and her published writings appear in Music Theory Spectrum, The Journal of Musicology and The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy (for which she currently serves on the editorial board).
J. Kent Williams holds BME, MM, and PhD degrees from Indiana University-Bloomington. He has published articles and reviews in American Music, Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Indiana Theory Review, In Theory Only, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and Music Theory Spectrum . His textbook Theories and Analyses of Twentieth-Century Music is published by Wadsworth-Schirmer. He has developed numerous computer applications and multimedia web sites to facilitate the teaching and learning of various aspects of music theory. At the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, he serves as the Head of the Music Studies Department.
