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Alto solo cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, and their appropriate application to contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types.
(2003)
The study deals primarily with historical and pedagogical information for each of the alto solo cantatas which will ensure singers and teachers of singers access to information necessary when deciding whether to explore ...
"The Three Hermits": Study of an opera by Stephen H. Paulus.
(2003)
Stephen Harrison Paulus is one of today's leading American composers. A versatile and prolific composer of many genres, Paulus finds himself equally at home with works ranging from orchestral music to art songs. His current ...
A comparative study of the musical characteristics of children as observed in the spontaneous chant of Native American and Anglo American children.
(2003)
During the past fifty years, researchers and scholars have studied the musical development of young children, identifying not only the musical characteristics of young children, but also the developmental stages of their ...
Katinka Daniel: Her life and her contributions to Kodaly pedagogy in the United States.
(2003)
Katinka Scipiades Daniel (b. 1913) was raised and educated in Hungary. She graduated from the Franz Liszt Music Academy with degrees in piano performance and music education and earned the Absolutorium in art history ...
Asymmetrical rhythms for marimba.
(2003)
The exploration of the potential of the marimba as a solo instrument in recent decades fostered the creation of an unprecedented volume of works written specifically for the instrument. Modern composers constantly challenge ...
The emergence and development of mallet ensemble literature in the United States: 1894--2001, with analyses of selected works.
(2003)
The study's objective was to supplement the available information regarding the development of mallet ensemble literature in the United States. Methods employed relied on historical inquiry through both quantitative and ...
Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466: The play with topics in the high, middle and low styles.
(2003)
This study presents the case that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466 may be interpreted as a drama. Mozart creates the drama through his use of what Leonard Ratner calls musical topics. The topics ...
Pitch internalization strategies of professional musicians.
(2003)
Music educators agree that the internalization of pitch from music notation is essential for music literacy, but college music theory teachers often find that students' aural comprehension lags behind their visual comprehension ...
Children's musical thinking skills and creative processes during a composition task.
(2003)
These findings suggest that: (a) age and developmental factors had an impact on the students' compositions, (b) involvement with their families' musical and nonmusical activities was somewhat related to the scores students ...
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 ...