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On Unaccompanied Horn Music, Jason D. Klinect
On Unaccompanied Horn Music, Jason D. Klinect
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Unaccompanied music provides a host of challenges for solo musicians, and especially for wind players. The performer cannot rely on accompaniment for embouchure rest or for realization of the harmonic content, due to only being able to play one pitch at a time. An unaccompanied musician has to breathe life into the music by themselves, requiring an intimate knowledge of the music, even moreso than is already required. The pacing of the music, the dynamics, phrasing, and articulation need to be clearly conveyed to the audience by the performer alone. Likely due to the horn not having valves until the …
Exploring Student Understanding Of The Connections Between Music And Literacy, Heather Owens, Scott Palasik
Exploring Student Understanding Of The Connections Between Music And Literacy, Heather Owens, Scott Palasik
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
It has been found that music training improves attention and recall of memory, two skills that are linked to literacy. Music is also strongly correlated with phonological and phonemic awareness. More research is needed to pinpoint therapy methods that integrate music and are Evidence- Based Practices. The purpose of this project was to discover the extent to which aspiring speech language pathologists are aware that musical experiences aid learning and literacy by conducting a survey of undergraduate speech-language pathology and audiology students at The University of Akron. For the methods of this survey, twenty-eight participants completed a survey that was …
The Effects Of Music Therapy On Stuttering, Nicole Baumann, Dr. Scott Palasik
The Effects Of Music Therapy On Stuttering, Nicole Baumann, Dr. Scott Palasik
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Across time and culture, music has been used to augment and treat a variety of psychological and physical diseases. The current study therefore aims to identify the effects of music on stuttering. For this study, one individual was selected to participate for a total of five weeks. The procedure included documenting the participant’s percentages of syllables stuttered in monologues and structured reading passages as well as completing pre and post mindfulness assessments during the course of the study. Results indicate that music positively affects percentages of syllables stuttered in reading passages, the types of disfluencies and overall mindfulness levels of …
Sketches Of A Life, Alexander D. Morris
Sketches Of A Life, Alexander D. Morris
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Sketches of a Life is a work for a small chamber ensemble and depicts small sections of an unidentified person's life. It is scored for 13 instruments and runs eight minutes in length. The piece itself is supplementary to this project, which is largely a descriptive and theoretical analysis of the work. The analysis and score are submitted as PDFs. A link to the recording is included in the appendix.
Mathematics And Music: A Search For Correlation, Isaac Sarver
Mathematics And Music: A Search For Correlation, Isaac Sarver
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Several studies have been conducted, which have shown connections between content in music and mathematics. Concepts such as fractions, ratios, etc. are mathematical concepts that also can be found or expressed through music. Although these connections have been made, they primarily address connections within the subject matter of music and math. This study attempts to find a correlation between a high school student participating in a school sponsored music program and receiving a higher average math grade. In the study, two school districts provided anonymous student math score data, while also showing which students participated in a music program. From …