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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 ...
Jean Ritchie's "Field Trip---Scotland": An examination of unpublished field recordings collected in Scotland, 1952--1953.
(2000)
The study also provides a chronology of Ritchie's fieldwork, reconstructed through letters, diaries and personal interviews with her and others. Appendices include brief rhythmic, melodic and formal analyses of the songs, ...
Profiles of career-aged keyboard students: Attitudes, preferences, and demographics.
(2006)
This study sought to determine profiles for career-aged adult keyboard students (30-55 years) based on motivation. Perspectives concerning student attitudes and opinions regarding teacher qualities and traits, preferred ...
The acoustic interaction of voices in ensemble: An inquiry into the phenomenon of voice matching and the perception of unaltered vocal process.
(2002)
For Group 2, acoustic placement alone provided the best alliance of acoustic analysis and auditor/singer preference, at a rate of 50% each for close and lateral spacing. Attention to acoustic placement alone was shown to ...
Marienne Uszler's contributions to piano pedagogy.
(2003)
Uszler's work as editor and author for national journals and magazines, including The Piano Quarterly, American Music Teacher, and Piano & Keyboard, is highlighted. Her journal articles are organized and studied by topic, ...
The effects of computer-assisted keyboard technology and MIDI accompaniments on group piano students' performance accuracy and attitudes.
(2007)
Recommendations from the results include using CAI such as the Guide Mode to help group piano students improve in pitch accuracy during the early stages of learning new repertoire. After students feel comfortable with the ...
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, ...
Marguerite Miller's contributions to piano pedagogy.
(1997)
This study documents the contributions of Marguerite Miller (b. 1920) to the field of piano pedagogy. For thirty-eight years Miller taught at Wichita State University (WSU), influencing hundreds of students as a teacher ...
Bowing Drills: Highly Adaptable Exercises for All Ages
(2024-05-11)
In the orchestral string world, the left-hand is primarily responsible for pitch while the right-hand is accountable for much of the remaining elements of music including tone, dynamics, articulations, and phrasing. While ...