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Familiarity of CBDNA commissioning projects among college band directors in the United States.
(1999)
The purpose of the study was to determine familiarity among college band directors in the United States of band compositions generated through commissioning projects supported by the College Band Directors National ...
The pedagogic influence of Ernest S. Williams on the teaching concepts of four American trumpet professors.
(1999)
This survey examines the influence of Ernest S. Williams on the trumpet teaching of Leonard B. Smith (Detroit Concert Band), Raymond Crisara (The University of Texas at Austin), Robert Nagel (Professor Emeritus, Yale ...
With music strong by Lukas Foss :
(1997)
In 1988 Lukas Foss composed a choral/orchestral work for Margaret Hawkins on the occasion of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. This new work, With Music Strong, is based on texts by Walt Whitman ...
Conducting musical shape.
(1999)
What is "shape" in conducting music? Shape is that which creatively exposes and actualizes in performance the organization or lack thereof of all intrinsic elements within a given score. Conductors imaginatively bring shape ...
Trends in piano pedagogy as reflected by the proceedings of the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy (1981-1995).
(1998)
The topics most frequently addressed at the Conference were Practice Teaching (20.5%), Pedagogy Curriculum Program (18.0%), Technology (16.6%), Learning Theories (15.2%), Literature (13.1%), and Performance (12.0%). Among ...
The Late Bloomers Piano Club :
(1997)
Existing motivation theory, transitional theory, ego identity and small group theory were found to explain motivation to start piano study, but did not address the issue of persistence of piano study. Maslow's Hierarchy ...
An electromyographic examination of wrist motion while executing selected drumstick techniques with matched grip.
(1999)
Using surface electromyography, this study examined the activity of flexor carpi u1naris and extensor carpi u1naris during execution of drumstick single, double, and buzz strokes. Subjects included 9 male and female ...
The contributions of Clarence A. Burg to piano pedagogy.
(1997)
Interviews with Burg's relatives and archival materials provided biographical data. Information regarding Burg's piano teaching philosophy and approaches was gathered from questionnaires returned by sixty-seven of his ...
Franz Liszt's solo piano music from his Roman period, 1862-1868.
(1999)
The main body of the document consists of five chapters, each devoted to a particular facet of Liszt's Roman solo piano music: Original Works, Transcriptions of Keyboard Works, Transcriptions of Orchestral and Chamber ...
Selected intermediate to early-advanced works for piano solo by Violet Balestreri Archer: An analysis for teaching and performance.
(1997)
The ensuing four chapters present analyses of the selected works. The discussion of each composition begins with a brief introduction about its background, stylistic traits, and influences. A structural analysis follows, ...