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Notes Of Hope: Experiential Learning In Music Education, Eden A. Dunning, Jordan Wessel
Notes Of Hope: Experiential Learning In Music Education, Eden A. Dunning, Jordan Wessel
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
The arts unite vision, hearing, touch, movement, speech, and emotion. Music strengthens spatial and conditional reasoning, problem solving, and creative thinking. For students, it can positively affect academic areas such as mathematics and creative scientific processes. Benefiting urban students in new ways, this project, a two semester after-school music program in inner-city Cleveland, was completed as part of our Honors degrees. Our purpose was to provide students with musical experiences, developing a foundation of basic musical skills that would allow them to be “tuneful, beatful, and artful” throughout their lives. Each weekly class gave students the opportunity to make music …
Louden Hugely: The Piano Music Of Percy Grainger, Jackson Carruthers
Louden Hugely: The Piano Music Of Percy Grainger, Jackson Carruthers
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) was an Australian pianist and composer. While highly esteemed during his lifetime, Grainger's music has largely fallen into neglect outside the world of the wind band. However, Grainger left a vast quantity of highly idiomatic and meritorious piano music which deserves greater acceptance. To this end, this paper makes a survey of Grainger's output for piano, to show the merit of his music and prove that it remains relevant even today.
Teaching Tuba Students To Be Complete Musicians, Brandon E. Cummings
Teaching Tuba Students To Be Complete Musicians, Brandon E. Cummings
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
The goal of music educators is to develop complete musicians who successfully learn and perform all musical concepts. One of the limitations of the band classroom is that performers are required to play a part that is specifically written with the needs of the ensemble in mind, and not the needs of the developing musician. These limitations can be seen in the bass instruments of a band which typically play the harmony or bass-line. While the bass-line and harmony are integral portions of the music, they do not often progress as far as other instrumental parts with respect to the …
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 …
The Effect Of Music Listening On Anxiety And Agitation In Adult Mechanically Ventilated Patients: A Systematic Review, Kristen M. Trowbridge, Hailee N. Horstman
The Effect Of Music Listening On Anxiety And Agitation In Adult Mechanically Ventilated Patients: A Systematic Review, Kristen M. Trowbridge, Hailee N. Horstman
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Mechanical ventilation causes anxiety and agitation in patients in intensive care units, which increases risk for complications and prolonged hospital stays. Since pharmacological interventions have adverse effects and are not always effective at reducing anxiety and agitation, nonpharmacological interventions, such as music listening, could be considered. The purpose of this systematic review is to identify, review, and critically appraise the evidence from studies that examined the effect of music listening, compared with standard care, on anxiety and agitation in mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Using search engines, data bases, key words, and criteria, twenty studies are …
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.