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A survey of undergraduate piano pedagogy core course content.
(2002)
The purpose of this study was to identify the content of undergraduate piano pedagogy core courses at four-year, National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)-accredited colleges and universities. Data were collected ...
Teaching concepts and techniques utilized by three American trombone professors
(1996)
Three trombone educators were chosen according to predetermined criteria of teaching position, longevity, activity, studio output, availability, and geographical location: Edwin D. “Buddy” Baker, Vem L. Kagarice, and Irvin ...
Jazz in Oklahoma music teacher education.
(2005)
Oklahoma music teacher education institutions should integrate the preceding aspects of jazz study into current music education curricula. With these efforts, the role of jazz in Oklahoma music teacher education can fulfill ...
Teacher or performer: Role identification among piano majors.
(1998)
The study contains seven chapters and several appendices. Chapter one defines the problem and provides a brief introduction to symbolic interaction theory. Chapter two contains a survey of related literature in the following ...
Preparing choral voices for historically guided vocalism in the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary styles.
(2005)
The purpose of this study is to propose a historically guided approach to timbre, volume, vibrato, and pitch in the performance of choral repertoire. This is accomplished in part by documenting primary sources that suggest ...
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 ...
Medical opinions regarding warm-up procedures for four-mallet marimba performance.
(2003)
Many percussion sources discuss different ways to warm up prior to practice or performance, but most contain only the opinions of musicians. This study seeks to bring knowledge from the medical community into the warm-up ...
Michael Head: His contributions as composer, performer, educator with an analysis of selected solo songs.
(2002)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the life and work of Michael Head and to document his contributions to music education. During the course of the study, answers were sought to the following questions: (1) What ...