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The Swinney Conservatory Of Music At Central Methodist University: An Historical Study, David William Samson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Swinney Conservatory of Music at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri has a long history of producing a significant number of the music educators. Even before the conservatory's founding in 1925, music and music education played an important role in the town of Fayette. Since the mid-nineteenth century there were two colleges in Fayette: Central College and Howard Female College. While both schools grew alongside each other, it was at Howard College (later renamed Howard-Payne College) where music was taught. When the two schools merged in 1923, Howard-Payne's music department was transferred to Central and in 1925 was reorganized …

Behavioral Analysis Of Directors Of High-Performing Versus Low-Performing High School Bands, Mark Dwayne Waymire

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the relationship between student performance levels and teacher behaviors. Ten high school band directors were classified into one of two categories, directors of high-performing bands or directors of low-performing bands, based on audio recordings of concert band performances. Directors from the two categories were matched in terms of years of experience, educational background, and current teaching environment in an effort to delimit possible causal relationships between these factors and student performance outcomes. Each director was observed and videotaped over a three-day period, within two weeks preceding a music festival performance. Field notes were taken during each rehearsal …

The Instructional Planning And Rehearsal Practices Of Three Selected High School Band Directors, Renardo R. Murray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the rehearsal planning and practices of three selected high school band directors as they prepare their ensembles for performance. Three subjects were observed across five consecutive rehearsals for a total of approximately 641 minutes. Data was collected from structured interviews, videotape observations, field notes, analysis of instructional goals, and frequency and duration data collected on specified teacher and student behaviors. The observed rehearsal time was divided into rehearsal frames which are episodes of rehearsal time devoted to the correction of student performance. Rehearsal frames that included two or more performance trials were identified and extracted for detail …

Personal Therapy For Undergraduate Music Therapy Students: A Survey Of Amta Program Coordinators, Susan Gardstrom, Nancy A. Jackson

Department of Music Faculty Publications

The primary purpose of this study was to gather information in order to understand if and how various modalities of personal therapy are employed with undergraduate music therapy students in the United States, AMTA degree program coordinators were asked about 3 therapy modalities, in particular: verbal therapy, music therapy, and expressive arts therapy (excluding music therapy).

It was predicted that less than a quarter of the respondents would indicate that personal therapy of any modality was required in their undergraduate curricula, but that a larger percentage would indicate that it was encouraged. Both hypotheses were supported, with just over 14% …

Gretsch Drum Catalog, 2011, Gretsch Company

Gretsch Company Catalogs & Price Lists

This is a 2011 catalog for Gretsch drums. It contains a variety of advertisements for drum sets, snare drums, and accessories, including color options. It also contains a wide variety of high-quality photography covering musicians, Gretsch manufacturing employees, and company history.

Concert Recording 2011-10-31, Todd Prickett, Jennifer Garrison, Kristine Mezines, S. Michael Shuman, Sean Sweeden, Allison Dean, Benjamin Winn, Kara Young, Jeremy Morris, Chelsea Hodge, Sharon Fox, Judd Burns, Anousis Luanglathay, David Frantz, Allison Bolin, Jonathan Variames, Tazonio Anderson, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Schola Cantorum

Concert Recordings & Programs

All that hat life and breath / René Clausen -- Daemon Irrepit Callidus / György Orbán -- The Tenderland. Stomp your foot ; The promise of living / Aaron Copland -- The Making of the drum. The skin ; The barrel of the drum ; The two curved sticks of the drummer ; Gourds and rattles ; The gong-gong / Bob Chilcott -- Let down the bars, O death / Samuel Barber -- Quick! We have but a second / [arr.] Charles V. Stanford -- I feel like my time ain't long / William Grant Still -- Bach (again) / …

Exploration, Language And Application: An Approach To Teaching Beginning Instrumental Jazz Improvisation, Jeremy Todd Pownall

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to provide preservice and inservice teachers with an alternative approach to teaching beginning jazz improvisation to instrumentalists in a classroom setting. It was determined that there exists a need for an accessible (to both teacher and student) method for teaching beginning jazz improvisation to instrumentalists. This is due to the lack of emphasis on jazz improvisation at both the public school and university level, as well as the inclusion of improvisation in both the national and Georgia state standards for music performance. The teaching method presented in this study is based on previous research, …

An Examination Of College Flute Professors' Approaches To Improving Students' Intonation Skills, Kelly Theresa Cato

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine what methods college flute professors use to improve their students intonation skills and to highlight resources to aid future practices on the subject of intonation. The research questions guiding this study were (a) Do college flute professors teach students how to improve intonation skills? (b) What methods do college flute professors use to improve students' intonation skills? (c) What resources do college flute professors use in conjunction with teaching intonation? Research was conducted using a researcher-created online survey that was distributed to college flute professors throughout the United States. Findings suggested a …

Chord Conundrum: Examining The Performance Practice Of Polyphonic Figures In J.S. Bach's Solo Violin Works, Emily Vold

Theses and Dissertations

Interpreting and expressing the musical intentions of a composer in an informed manner requires great dedication and study on the part of a performer. This holds particularly true in the case of music written well before the present age, where direct connections to the thoughts of the composer and even the styles of the era have faded with the passing of time. Violinists today consistently struggle with studying and performing a set of works from the musical period referred to by scholars as the Baroque era (1600-1750), the Sonatas and Partitas for Violin without Bass accompaniment, composed by Johann Sebastian …

Concert Recording 2011-10-16, Kyung-Won On, American Guild Of Organists. Northwest Arkansas Chapter

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sinfonia from cantata no.29. Wir danken dir, gott, wir danken dir / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Concerto in G major, BWV 592. Allegro ; Grave ; Presto / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Aria / Paul Manz -- Prelude and fugue in G major, BWV 541 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Fantasy in f minor, K. 608 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Three organ solos in jazz style. Our Father's world ; Jesus loves me ; Deep river / Joe Utterback

Concert Recording 2011-02-23, Kia-Hui Tan

Concert Recordings & Programs

The stream flows (1990) / Bright Sheng -- Moods (2000) / Chan-Boon Tan -- Li-Na im Garten (1985). Die hungrige Katze (The hungry cat) ; Das Kaninchen (The rabbit) ; Das Eichhornchen (The squirrel) ; Der Boxer von nebenan (The dog from next door) ; Das Vogelchen (The little bird) / Isang Yun -- Sonata op. 27 no. 4 in e minor / Eugene Ysaye -- Caprices. No. 3 in e minor ; No. 7 in a minor ; No. 9 in E Major / Niccolo Paganini

Concert Recording 2011-04-09b, A. J. Miller, Sarah Stout, Gretchen Renshaw, Justin Stowe, Dallas Tucker, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Tuba Quartet

Concert Recordings & Programs

Toad patrol / Joseph D. Goble -- The village choir / Alexader Borodin ; arr. Tubalaté -- Tuba quartet / Crawford Gates -- Toccata and fugue in d minor / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Wind sketches. Whirlwind ; Fremantle doctor ; White squall ; Vientos y fugas / Brian Balmages

Concert Recording 2011-10-21, Amy Mayes

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonate, opus 167. Allegretto ; Allegro animato / Camille Saint-Saens -- Concerto for clarinet and orchestra. Slowly and expressively ; Rather fast / Aaron Copland -- Sonatina. Tema con variazioni / Miklos Rozsa -- Trio V, opus 114. Allegro ; Adagio ; Andantino grazioso ; Allegro

Concert Recording 2011-03-13, Awadagin Pratt

Concert Recordings & Programs

Disc One -- Sonata in A♭Major, op. 110 / Adagio ma non troppo ; Fuga (Allegro ma non troppo) / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Speech -- Etudes in teh form of free variations on a theme of Beethoven, WoO 31 / Robert Schumann -- Speech -- Passacaglia and fugue in c minor, BWV 582 / Johann Sebastian Bach ; arr. Awadagin Pratt -- Disc Two -- Sonata in b minor / Franz Liszt -- Couperin

Concert Recording 2011-04-10b, Sarah Stout, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

Intermezzo / Marcel Bitsch -- Pièce en forme de Habanera / Maurice Ravel -- Vintage / David Gillingham -- First sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 120, no. 1 / Johannes Brahms -- Soliloquy IX / Christopher Wiggins -- Variations on drink to me only / Howard Snell

Concert Recording 2011-04-14, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Tuba Ensemble, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Euphonium Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

Winds (1992). Khamsin ; Zephyrs ; Bora ; Doldrums ; Sirocco / Roger Vaughan -- Morgen music / Paul Hindemith ; arr. John Stevens -- Quartet / Ionel Dmitru -- Pavane / Gabriel Fauré ; arr. Kenyon Wilson -- The thunderer / John Phillip Sousa ; arr. David Werden -- Serenade for strings / Antonín Dvořák ; arr. Sy Brandon -- Pictures at an exhibition. Promenade ; Old caste ; Bydlo ; Catacombs ; Baby Yaga ; Great gate of Kiev / Modest Mussorgsky ; arr. Elizabeth Golas

Concert Recording 2011-11-06, Katie Zwit, Kristine Mezines, Paige Quinn

Concert Recordings & Programs

Drei romanzen. Moderato ; Semplice, affetuoso ; Moderato / Robert Schuman -- Six metamorphoses after Ovid. Pan ; Phaeton / Benjamin Britten -- Trio for oboe, horn, and piano. Allegro moderato / Carl Reinecke -- Oboe concerto. Rondo pastorale ; Minuet and musette ; Finale: scherzo / Ralph Vaughan Williams

Concert Recording 2011-04-05, University Of Arkansas,Fayetteville. Department Of Music

Concert Recordings & Programs

Allegro con brio. Symphony no. 25 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Portals (1971) / Carl Anton Wirth -- A Lincolnshire whimsey (1991) / Clarence Barber -- Two sad songs (1976) / Mark Alan Taggart -- Sextour (1844) / Georges Kastner -- Symphony for saxophone chamber orchestra (1998). Vivace / Stephen Dankner -- Holgerg's time. Suite in olden style / Edvard Grieg ; trans. Worley

Concert Recording 2011-02-16a, Mauricio Salguero

Concert Recordings & Programs

Quirk / Eric Honour -- La espiral mistica (The mystical spiral) / Rodolfo Acosta -- 10 to the power of negative 33 / Christopher Biggs -- Looking-glass changes / Sarah Horick -- Harvey / Mark Snyder -- Refractions I / Jorge Sosa

Concert Recording 2011-04-09, Nick Byars, Sophie Kirmanidou, Tazonio Anderson, Chelsey Martin, Heather Werschky, Brice Smith, Caleb Van Wyhe, Jon George, Zack Plumlee, Bailey Stephens, Andrew Chu, Alicia Mueller, Amy Frenzel

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata no. 8, op. 30, no. 3 in G Major / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Elegy for solo viola / Benjamin Britten -- Czardas / Vittorio Monti -- Sonata no. 1, op. 12, no. 1 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Incantation / Augusta Read Thomas -- Sonata no. 2, in d minor, op. 121 / Robert Schumann