Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Master's Theses Graduate College 4-2020 Metal Mayhem to Music Theory: The Use of Heavy Metal Music in Collegiate Music Theory Instruction Weston Michael-Andrew Bernath Western Michigan University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses Part of the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Bernath, Weston Michael-Andrew, "Metal Mayhem to Music Theory: The Use of Heavy Metal Music in Collegiate Music Theory Instruction" (2020). Master's Theses. 5145. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/5145 This Masters Thesis-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. METAL MAYHEM TO MUSIC THEORY: THE USE OF HEAVY METAL MUSIC IN COLLEGIATE MUSIC THEORY INSTRUCTION by Weston Michael-Andrew Bernath A thesis submitted to the Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Music Theory School of Music Western Michigan University April 2020 Thesis Committee: David Loberg Code, Ph.D., Chair Lauron Kehrer, Ph.D. Richard Adams, D.M.A. Cristina Fava, Ph.D. Copyright by Weston Michael-Andrew Bernath 2020 METAL MAYHEM TO MUSIC THEORY: THE USE OF HEAVY METAL MUSIC IN COLLEGIATE MUSIC THEORY INSTRUCTION Weston Michael-Andrew Bernath, M.A. Western Michigan University, 2020 Heavy metal music is excluded from the common music theory textbooks used in the current undergraduate basic musicianship sequence.