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Best Practices For Standards-Based Assessment In The Secondary Choral Music Setting, Tasha Twesme
Best Practices For Standards-Based Assessment In The Secondary Choral Music Setting, Tasha Twesme
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ABSTRACT
BEST PRACTICES FOR STANDARDS-BASED ASSSESMENT IN
THE SECONDARY CHORAL MUSIC SETTING
by
Tasha Twesme
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2016
Under the Supervision of Associate Professor Sheila J. Feay-Shaw
This qualitative study of secondary choral music teachers addressed the successes and difficulties of current assessment practices in music education. The purpose of this study was to identify best assessment practices for a secondary choral classroom within a standards-based grading system. In order to understand the process of assessment development and implementation, a mixed-model approach to the research was used including a survey and semi-structured interviews. The survey was intended to …
Turn Of The Century British Musical Comedy In An American Performance Library, Victoria Peters
Turn Of The Century British Musical Comedy In An American Performance Library, Victoria Peters
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The genre label 'musical comedy' gained its stride in the 1920s, but the term emerged as early as the 1870s. These early musical comedies are often overlooked in the historical discussion of musical theater, due to a lack of integration between the storyline and musical numbers. With the help of the Tams-Witmark collection, housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mills Music Library, this paper examines how two of these early musical comedies, composed by England’s Ivan Caryll and Sidney Jones, were exported and used by touring theater companies in The United States. These flexible musical comedies complicate the kinds of …