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Teaching Timbre Topics

Teaching Timbre Topics (TTT) is a pedagogical resource that organizes teaching materials drawn from timbre-themed courses taught at various institutions. These materials are organized in modules that can be used in the design of entire courses on timbre and orchestration, or as standalone units within a course. Below you will find three TTT modules on the themes of Defining Timbre, Analysis of Timbre, and Applications of Timbre and Timbral Analysis. Each module includes objectives, reading resources, suggestions for assignments. The materials are meant to be scalable according to student level: teachers may select resources, activities, and assignments depending on the desired depth of the topic to be covered. These materials provide both a comprehensive summary of current pedagogy on timbre, instrumentation, and orchestration (especially across universities in North America) and a contribution to advancing and mobilizing knowledge of timbre and its research. A full description of the development of these resources can be found here.