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Barbara Andress: Her career and contributions to early childhood music education.
(1999)
Barbara Andress is an internationally known music educator, author, artist, designer of early childhood materials and instruments, clinician, and organizational leader who has dedicated nearly 50 years of her life to music ...
PREPARATION FOR AUDITION VERSUS PERFORMANCE: AN EXAMINATION OF FOUR PROMINENT ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS FOR TRUMPET
(2014-12)
The purpose of this document is to examine the preparation for orchestral audition versus performance situations for four of the most commonly requested trumpet excerpts: Petrouchka by Igor Stravinsky; Symphony No. 5 by ...
THE ART OF MELD: PITCH ORGANIZATION AND MOTIVIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN JOAN TOWER’S MUSIC FOR CLARINET
(2015-12)
Joan Tower is an award-winning American composer, best known for her orchestral and chamber music. Her music is widely performed and is well liked by performers and audiences alike. Her three solo works for clarinet—Wings ...
Lili Kraus :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)
Lili Kraus has earned the distinction as one of the preeminent piano performers and pedagogues of the twentieth century. She has been the subject of numerous interviews, made many recordings, served as artist-in-residence ...
A Pedagogical Study and Set of Recommendations Based Upon the Experiences of Three Trumpet Players Who Recovered from Bell's Palsy: Before, During, and After
(2023-08-03)
Bell’s palsy is a temporary idiopathic facial paralysis that affects up to one in sixty people in their lifetime. Trumpet players who have been diagnosed with the condition may go through a lengthy recovery process that ...
BEETHOVEN’S PIANO SONATA, OP. 53 “WALDSTEIN”: A STUDY OF FINGERINGS IN SELECTED EDITIONS
(2015-12-18)
This study collates and compares fingerings in selected significant editions of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 53. These selected editions span from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first and include those ...
Adult music programming in member schools of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts.
(1998)
Most schools used enrollment numbers as the primary means to determine success in programming. Other informal methods, such as discussions with faculty and participants, also were used by over three-fourths of the schools. ...
Betty Johnson, Midwest Pioneer of the Bassoon: Her Life and Legacy
(2015)
Betty Johnson’s career in bassoon performance and education spanned six decades. She was an early pioneer and prominent teacher of the bassoon in the Midwest. She began her tenure as a charter member of the Oklahoma Symphony ...
Improvised ornamentation in the opera arias of Mozart: A singer's guide.
(2001)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, along with other composers of the late eighteenth century, often left melodic phrases of opera arias with simplified endings at cadenza points. This practice allowed particular care to be given to ...
The conducting of Gregorian chant :
(1984)
Within the Catholic Church, the singing of Gregorian chant has always been a form of liturgical prayer. However, when sung in a modern performance it assumes a position like other liturgical repertoire from succeeding ...