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Whiteboards November 2009

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in November 2009. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Whiteboards October 2009

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in October 2009. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Whiteboards September 2008

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in September 2008. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Whiteboards May 2008

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in May 2008. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Whiteboards April 2008

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in April 2008.   All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning …
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Paradox of Zeno

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 1, 2012 by oscarDecember 11, 2016

The Paradox of Zeno is a famous philosophical riddle by the Greek philosopher Zeno. It is an example of how too strict logical thinking can completely fail to do justice to a trivial truth of reality. The paradox Picture this scene: Imagine a running contest between Achilles (the Greek …
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Posted in Tools for students | Tagged dot, duration, music theory, notation, paradox, perception, philosophy, time, zeno

Students categorizing music 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on October 30, 2012 by oscarSeptember 18, 2016

Introduction When provoking thinking about music in teaching I am used to asking my students how they personally conceptualize and position music in itself, asking them to describe and position music as a middle level category in between 2 contained subsets and 2 containing supersets. This assignment I call: …
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Posted in Tools for students | Tagged art, culture, music, music philosophy, music theory, outline of basic music theory, perception, philosophy, physics of sound, students

Overhauling www.oscarvandillen.com

Oscar van Dillen Posted on October 28, 2012 by oscarApril 20, 2013

Complete overhaul Overhauling any website is a lot of work, especially when one migrates server and software at the same time, and isn’t a specialist at that. Although I grew up with computers and actually did my first attempt at what would later be called a “hack” way back …
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