​Ona Pinsonneault, D.M.A. in Clarinet from the University of Minnesota, has taught Clarinet, Music Theory and Ear Training at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN for 40 years. She has performed with local Twin Cities orchestras and small ensembles and has served as adjudicator for a variety of woodwind contests in the Twin Cities.

Session 39 Why Cb?
Session 38 The Duplet
Session 37 Asymmetrical Meters with Quarter Triplets
Session 36 Triplets in Simple Meters
Session 34 Compound Meters: Use your Metronome
Session 32 Division of the Beat: Use Your Metronome
Session 30 Every Rehearsal is a Performance: Harmony

 

Session 29 Every Rehearsal is a Performance: Melody
Session 28 Every Rehearsal is a Performance: Expression
Session 27 For Harmonic and Melodic Reasons: The Minor Scale
Session 26 For Harmonic Reasons: Secondary Leading Tone 7th
Session 25 For Harmonic Reasons: More Secondary Dominants
Session 24 For Harmonic Reasons: Secondary Dominant
Session 23 Harmonic Progression around the Circle of Fifths
Session 21 Harmony 2- “Tonic, Dominant and Subdominant”
Session 20 Harmony 1- “Major and Minor Tonics”

 

Session 19 The Overtone Series-4 “Overtones: What do They Mean for Me?”
Session 18 The Overtone Series-3 “Overtones in Handbells”
Session 17 The Overtone Series-2 “Advice from Douglas E. Wagner”
Session 16 The Overtone Series-1
Session 15 The Year of the Interval: Unisons, Octaves and Inversion
Session 14 The Year of the Interval: FOURTHS & FIFTHS
Session 13 The Year of the Interval: THIRDS
Session 12 The Year of the Interval: SECONDS
Session 11 What Harmony? A Contest Lurks!
Session 10 Where’s the Melody?

 

Session 9 The Quarter Triplet in Simple Meter
Session 8 The Key Signature: What Good is it for Me?
Session 7 The Changing Meter Signature
Session 6 The Modes
Session 5 Reading Music with Chord Symbols
Session 4 The Modes/Irregular Meter
Session 3 The Major and Minor Scales/Why Do Composers Sometimes Pick the Meters They Do?
Session 2 Why Does Music Sound the Way it Does?
Session 1 Music Theory