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Ua37/36 Faculty Personal Papers Claude Rose, Wku Archives
Ua37/36 Faculty Personal Papers Claude Rose, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Personal papers of Claude Rose, WKU Music professor from 1945-1977.
Singing Schools In Southcentral Kentucky, Donald Beisswenger
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
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.