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The Hand Horn In Performance, Elisa Balon
The Hand Horn In Performance, Elisa Balon
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
Using a natural horn similar to those used in the late eighteenth through the late nineteenth centuries, I performed music written for instruments of this type in a Department of Music and Dance Student Recital. The hand stopping method was used and this helped me to gain insights into performance practices of the natural horn in the Classical and Romantic Periods.
Elementary Music Assessment And Report Card Practices In Livingston County, Michigan, Jennifer R. Patterson
Elementary Music Assessment And Report Card Practices In Livingston County, Michigan, Jennifer R. Patterson
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
This descriptive study explored how elementary schools in the five public school districts in Livingston County, Michigan, report musical achievement to parents. The purposes were to examine what is assessed in K–4 music classrooms, what grading systems are used to report the assessment data, and how school districts use report cards to convey information about students’ musical progress to parents. The study involved questioning district curriculum directors, elementary school principals, and music teachers with response rates above 70%. In addition, music report cards were reviewed and a small sample of parents were surveyed. Analysis of descriptive statistics revealed that elementary …