Paula Telesco is an Associate Professor in the Music Dept. at UMass Lowell.

Paula J. Telesco

Professor Emerita

College
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Department
Music Department
Phone
978-934-3870
Office
Moloney Performing Arts Center - 430
Email
paula_telesco@uml.edu

Expertise

Music theory

Research Interests

Music Theory and Aural Skills Pedagogy; Analysis of 18th and 19th Century Music; Omnibus Progression; Enharmonicism; Music and Literacy; Music Perception and Cognition; Alexander Malcolm, early 18th-century Scottish music theorist.

Education

  • Ph D: Music Theory, (1993), The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio
    Supporting Area: Music History
    Dissertation/Thesis Title: Enharmonicism in THeory and Practice in 18th-Century Music
  • Other: Music Theory, (1985), University of Arizona - Tuscon, Arizona
    Supporting Area: Music History
  • BA: Music, (1978), SUNY College at Buffalo - Buffalo, NY
    Supporting Area: Science, Dance

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Outstanding teacher of music theory and/or aural skills (2013), Teaching - Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy Online
  • Teacher Award, UMass Lowell. (2010), Teaching - Student Government Association
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell Music Department Teaching Award (1998), Teaching - UMass Lowell Music Dept.
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude (1985), Scholarship/Research - University of Arizona
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude (1978), Scholarship/Research - S.U.N.Y. College at Buffalo

Selected Publications

  • Telesco, P.J. (2017). Teaching Rhythms in 3/8 as a Prelude to Teaching 6/8. Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy Online.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2017). Understanding Undotted and Dotted Notes. Music Theory Pedagogy Online.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2015). Resolving V7/V to V or V7. Music Theory Pedagogy Online.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2014). ii7, ii\o7, vs. V7/V. Music Theory Pedagogy Online.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2014). Spelling Fully-Diminished and Half-Diminished Leading-Tone Seventh Chords. Music Theory Pedagogy Online.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2014). Spelling Fully-Diminished and Half-Diminished Quality Seventh Chords. Music Theory Pedagogy Online.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2014). Spelling ii(7) and IV(7) in Major and Minor Keys. Music Theory Pedagogy Online.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2013). Teaching elementary aural skills: How current brain research may help. Journal of music theory pedagogy, 27 211--245.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2010). Music and Early Literacy. Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010(5).
  • Telesco, P.J. (2002). Forward-looking retrospection: Enharmonicism in the classical era. The journal of musicology: A quarterly review of music history, criticism, analysis, and performance practice, 19(2) 332--373.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2001). Rethinking the teaching of minor scales and keys. Journal of music theory pedagogy, 15 69--90.
  • Telesco, P.J. (2001). The omnibus idea. Music theory spectrum: The journal of the Society for Music Theory, 23(1) 129--136.
  • Telesco, P.J., Muttoni, Maria Teresa (Reviewer), . (1999). Enharmonicism and the omnibus progression in Classical era music. Bollettino di analisi e teoria musicale, 6(2) 62--63.
  • Telesco, P.J. (1993). Enharmonicism in theory and practice in 18th-century music.
  • Telesco, P.J. (1991). Contextual ear training. Journal of music theory pedagogy, 5(2) 179--190.
  • Telesco, P.J. (1985). A HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED PIANO MUSIC OF EMMANUEL CHABRIER. The University of Arizona.

Selected Presentations

  • Does Retrieval Practice Enhance Music Learning? - Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, May 2019 - Washington, D.C.
  • Application of Retrieval Practice to Piano Music Memorization - North East Music Cognition Group, February 2019 - Harvard University
  • Identifying the Unknown Source of a pre-Rameau Harmonic Theorist: Who was Alexander Malcolm’s Mysterious Ghostwriter? - Society for Musicology in Ireland, July 2017 - Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Stylistically Constrained Meter: Differences between Music Composed in 3/4 and 6/8 - College Music Society National Conference, November 2015 - Indianapolis, IN
  • Teaching Rhythms in 3/8 as a Prelude to 6/8 - College Music Society Northeast Chapter, March 2015 - Boston, MA
  • Teaching Students to Count in Compound Meters: Using 3/8 as a Springboard - UML Faculty Research Symposium, March 2015 - Lowell, MA

Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research

  • (2007), Grant -
    Telesco, P.J.