Grace McNab (M. Mus., U.B.C., 1982) is theorist and pianist with a background in other arts, including architecture, drawing, painting, and the Brazilian martial art, Capoeira. Since 1989, she has taught music theory in the jazz and classical music programs at Capilano University, serving as Coordinator of Jazz Studies from 1997 to 2012; her teaching, compositions and improvisations reflect this dual influence. In recent years, Grace has been exploring a synthesis of music analysis with physical movement and visual design - a project called “Musical Nature: Making Art of Music Analysis”. In the classroom, she is working with colour, font and score layout to convey theoretical information to students in visually concise and musically evocative ways.
Contact : gmcnab@capilanou.ca
Posters 8.5 : Organic Transcription as an Embodied, Artistic-Analytic Process
