Music Theory : Terry Eder

Terry Eder, a choral conductor and music teacher with over 30 years of experience at both the college and secondary levels, is currently the Music Theory teacher at Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas, where he teaches Beginning and Advanced Placement Music Theory.  He also serves as Lead Teacher for the Dallas based O’Donnell Foundation’s Advanced Placement Music Theory incentive program involving thirteen high school music theory programs in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.  He is a College Board Consultant and has presented at several Advanced Placement Music Theory summer institutes and two-day workshops.  He also participates in the Reading of the AP Music Theory exam each summer.  About 80-85% of the music theory students that he has taught have received qualifying scores of 3, 4, or 5 on the AP Music Theory examination over the past 14 years.  Dr. Eder has also developed a one-day workshop on Vertical Teams in Music Theory for the College Board and has written an article on strategies for dealing with the sight singing portion of the AP exam.  He is currently a member of the College Board AP Music Theory Development Committee.