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Creating And Marketing Your Demo Cd, Daniel Rager

Dan Rager

A "one stop book" used in ALL genres of music today and is a required text for many college and university music business courses.

A complete guide on how to create successful DEMO's along with the tools of the trade on getting published, Record deals, Funding, obtaining Copyrights, Contracts, Press Kits, Band business, Touring and much more.

This book is an insightfully direct and informational text without the fluff of other musical books on the subject. It shows the MAZE and money flow of the music business and has a listing of 680 Publishing companies and 125 Record labels for …

Bridge To A Millennium, Daniel Rager

Dan Rager

1) Sedona (D. Rager) 2) As Torrents in Summer (Elgar/D. Rager) 3) Percussive Soundscapes - 4 mvts, percussion septet (D. Rager) 4) Ever Endeavor (D. Rager) 5) Bridge to a Millennium - Symphony No. 1 (D. Rager)

Colours Of Saratov, Daniel Rager, Natalya Rager

Dan Rager

The International Orchestral and Symphonic Wind Music of Dan Rager

The Effect Of Behavioral Contracting On Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Performance Achievement On The Soprano Recorder, John Egger, D. Springer, Lori Gooding

John Okley Egger

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of behavioral contracting on preservice elementary teachers’ performance achievement on the soprano recorder. Participants were elementary and special education majors (N = 60) enrolled in an undergraduate elementary music methods course. The study used a withdrawal design (ABA) composed of 2-week baseline–contract–baseline phases. Participants performed an assigned excerpt on the soprano recorder at the conclusion of each phase, and the tempo and number of errors performed were scored as data points for each participant. Results showed that participants performed with significantly higher tempos and significantly fewer errors during the contracting …

Instrument Gender Stratification In The Lesbian And Gay Band Association, Michael Hudson, John Egger, Ann Harrington

John Okley Egger

The purpose of this study was to analyze the gender and instrumentation stratification of performing members in the Lesbian and Gay Band Association. More specifically, the aim of this study was to determine if gender stratification of instruments is different from previous research when applied to the LGBTQ population. While studies have examined instrument-gender stratification as reflected in the rosters of performing ensembles, this study investigates how instrument-gender stereotyping manifest in Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning (LGBTQ) community based ensembles. Participants (N = 458) were instrumentalist from 39 community ensembles located in from the United States (93%), Australia (4%), Canada, …