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A Reading Of Johnny Faustus, F. Scott Regan
A Reading Of Johnny Faustus, F. Scott Regan
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The archetypal story of one selling his/her soul to the devil has been a featured plot device for novels, operas, movies, and theatrical ventures as well as a stimulus for various visual artists. Professor Regan has written this script for presentation to young audiences, particularly grades 4-8.
Parkland College Music Articulation: 1972-1997, Erwin Hoffman
Parkland College Music Articulation: 1972-1997, Erwin Hoffman
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I have been a student of the teaching-learning process for over thirty years. My doctoral studies at the University of Northern Colorado focused upon the development of an effective music curriculum and techniques of music instruction. After my appointment to the faculty at Parkland College in. 1970, it became apparent that my theoretical concepts of curriculum and instruction could be applied in. a practical manner. The existing music courses were Music Appreciation, Music Fundamentals, Music Theory (incorporating ear-training), Chorus, Band, and Class Piano. My goal was to develop the best community college music program possible. I subsequently developed our current …
Popular Music In A Transnational World: The Construction Of Local Identities In Singapore, Lily Kong
Popular Music In A Transnational World: The Construction Of Local Identities In Singapore, Lily Kong
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
As an area of geographical inquiry, popular music has not been explored to any large extent. Where writings exist, they have been somewhat divorced from recent theoretical and methodological questions that have rejuvenated social and cultural geography. In this paper, I focus on one arena which geographers can develop in their analysis of popular music, namely, the exploration of local influences and global forces in the production of music. In so doing, I wish to explore how local resources intersect with global ones in a process of transculturation. Using the example of English songs by one particular songwriter and artiste …
The Interplay Of Language And Music In Machaut's Virelai 'Foy Porter', Phyllis Brown, William Peter Mahrt
The Interplay Of Language And Music In Machaut's Virelai 'Foy Porter', Phyllis Brown, William Peter Mahrt
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Scarcely anywhere else in the repertory of lyric poetry is the identity of the poet and the composer quite as apparent as in the works of Guillaume de Machaut, the foremost French poet and musician of the fourteenth century (d1377). His works with music should be approached confidently as integral lyrics, as composite works of poetry and music, because he wrote about the process of providing music for poetry and writing texts to be set to music. Furthermore, he specified the sequence of his own compositions- narrative and lyrical, poetical and musical - all in a single book.