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Nau, Kathy (Fa 1061), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2017

Nau, Kathy (Fa 1061), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1061. Paper titled “Iowa Fiddle Tunes” by Kathy Nau in which she writes about her project documenting fiddle tunes collected by Bill Hamilton of Winfield, Iowa. Includes annotated music for approximately 23 tunes.


What Do You Mean, "Practice"? Theorizing The Writing-Music Connection, Callie Elise Compton Apr 2016

What Do You Mean, "Practice"? Theorizing The Writing-Music Connection, Callie Elise Compton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Researchers in the field of composition studies have frequently made allusions to musicians when they’ve discussed the role of practice in gaining skill. In doing so, however, they’ve risked making speculative rather than testable claims and separating composition studies from recent insights on practice from other disciplines such as education and music psychology. These fields, I argue, offer testable frameworks with which composition instructors and scholars can teach and study writing practice. Such frameworks are necessary because composition researchers need to supplement qualitative studies of writers and writing with quantitative data to generate replicable tests of teaching methods that may …


Ua37/36 Faculty Personal Papers Claude Rose, Wku Archives Jan 2015

Ua37/36 Faculty Personal Papers Claude Rose, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Claude Rose, WKU Music professor from 1945-1977.


Hollingsworth, Teresa L. (Fa 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Hollingsworth, Teresa L. (Fa 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 39. [Singing schools] Interview with Zilpha Amanda Hume concerning her husband’s (Archie Hume’s) singing schools where he acted as a singing school instructor. Interview was conducted by Teresa Hollingsworth for an oral history project at WesternKentucky University. Includes index, tape summary, transcription, handwritten fieldwork notes and a cassette tape.


Practicing Tips, John M. Cipolla Jul 2011

Practicing Tips, John M. Cipolla

John M Cipolla

Submitted article for publication. Article offers practice techniques for difficult technical passages utilizing various rhythms and meters, article includes musical examples.


Buddy Defranco, The Standard Bearer, John M. Cipolla Dec 2010

Buddy Defranco, The Standard Bearer, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

Interview with Buddy DeFranco, master jazz clarinetist.


Article: Phrasing...Speaking In Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, Official Journal Of The Ky Music Educators Association, John M. Cipolla Jul 2009

Article: Phrasing...Speaking In Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, Official Journal Of The Ky Music Educators Association, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

Tips on the necessary skills for musicians to learn to play convincing phrases.


Article: Phrasing...Speaking In Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, Official Journal Of The Ky Music Educators Association, John M. Cipolla Jul 2009

Article: Phrasing...Speaking In Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, Official Journal Of The Ky Music Educators Association, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

Tips on the necessary skills for musicians to learn to play convincing phrases.


Article: Pedagogy Of Master Clarinet And Saxophone Teacher, Joe Allard: A Panel Discussion, John M. Cipolla Jun 2009

Article: Pedagogy Of Master Clarinet And Saxophone Teacher, Joe Allard: A Panel Discussion, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

This is an edited transcription of a panel discussion held at the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest 2008 in Kansas City, Missouri about the pedagogy of clarinet/saxophone master teacher, Joe Allard. I participated in the panel, along with another former student of Joe Allard, as well as with an author of a dissertation written about Allard.


Article: Pedagogy Of Master Clarinet And Saxophone Teacher, Joe Allard: A Panel Discussion, John M. Cipolla Jun 2009

Article: Pedagogy Of Master Clarinet And Saxophone Teacher, Joe Allard: A Panel Discussion, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

This is an edited transcription of a panel discussion held at the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest 2008 in Kansas City, Missouri about the pedagogy of clarinet/saxophone master teacher, Joe Allard. I participated in the panel, along with another former student of Joe Allard, as well as with an author of a dissertation written about Allard.


A Hybrid Curriculum Of Private And Group Lessons For College Clarinet & Saxophone Studio Instruction, John M. Cipolla Mar 2009

A Hybrid Curriculum Of Private And Group Lessons For College Clarinet & Saxophone Studio Instruction, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

This model of teaching presents a curriculum that blends traditional one-on-one private college studio instruction on the clarinet and saxophone with small group lessons. Each student receives a weekly forty-minute private lesson and a twenty-minute group lesson. This hybrid model of teaching is an approach that, for the administrator, (1) increases student credit hour production because more students can be taught in fewer hours (2) addresses the increasing state pressure to reduce degree credit hours by including chamber music in the studio curriculum (3) supports retention efforts by helping freshmen acclimate to college through camaraderie developed in groups. And for …


A Hybrid Curriculum Of Private And Group Lessons For College Clarinet & Saxophone Studio Instruction, John M. Cipolla Mar 2009

A Hybrid Curriculum Of Private And Group Lessons For College Clarinet & Saxophone Studio Instruction, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

This model of teaching presents a curriculum that blends traditional one-on-one private college studio instruction on the clarinet and saxophone with small group lessons. Each student receives a weekly forty-minute private lesson and a twenty-minute group lesson. This hybrid model of teaching is an approach that, for the administrator, (1) increases student credit hour production because more students can be taught in fewer hours (2) addresses the increasing state pressure to reduce degree credit hours by including chamber music in the studio curriculum (3) supports retention efforts by helping freshmen acclimate to college through camaraderie developed in groups. And for …


Review: New American Works For Clarinet, Vol. Ii, Featuring Clarinetists, Richard Stoltzman, Michele Gingras, And Kim Ellis, John M. Cipolla Jan 2009

Review: New American Works For Clarinet, Vol. Ii, Featuring Clarinetists, Richard Stoltzman, Michele Gingras, And Kim Ellis, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

No abstract provided.


Singing Schools In Southcentral Kentucky, Donald Beisswenger Dec 1985

Singing Schools In Southcentral Kentucky, Donald Beisswenger

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Singing school teachers, who teach rural church congregations to sing from shape-note gospel songbooks, are still working in southcentral Kentucky, but the demand for them is smaller than it was in the first half of the twentieth century. The interdependence network in which singing school teachers, songbook publishers, and community singing events were key parts began to weaken in the 1940s as a result of the growth in popularity of professional gospel quartet concerts and gospel record albums. Many gospel music enthusiasts who once looked to songbooks as a major source for new material and for developing singing skills turned …


An Experiment In Teaching Sight Reading By Shaped Notes, Coralie Runyon Aug 1944

An Experiment In Teaching Sight Reading By Shaped Notes, Coralie Runyon

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to make an attempt to apply in the elementary grades of the public schools the principle of shaped notes with the purpose of fostering sight reading.