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Playing Together: A Chamber Music Guide, Nicholas Scott Matherne
Playing Together: A Chamber Music Guide, Nicholas Scott Matherne
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
Chamber Music, as purported by numerous academic and non-academic music education sources, is a valuable for developing the essential skills for musical development. The guide is designed to serve as scaffolding for young musicians to play chamber music together without the structure of a formal teacher. To facilitate this process for a variety of students, the music is designed using diverse instrumentation scoring so that any group of 5 musicians can play together the music arranged for this book. By examining all of the exercises in this guide, young musicians will complete self-driven content lessons in all of the nine …
Effective Elements Of Conducting: A Study Of High School Orchestra Directors, Matthew J. Brooks
Effective Elements Of Conducting: A Study Of High School Orchestra Directors, Matthew J. Brooks
Dissertations, 2014-2019
The purpose of this study was to evaluate how effectively current high school orchestra directors demonstrate the elements of conducting. To do this, I first selected what elements of conducting would be evaluated and then defined what is effective for each. From this, I created a conductor evaluation form consisting of a 1-Not Effective to 5-Effective rating scale to score how effectively each element is demonstrated. The results would later address the primary research questions:
- What elements of conducting do high school orchestra directors demonstrate most effectively?
- What elements of conducting do high school orchestra directors demonstrate least effectively?
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