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A Survey Of The Use Of Disc Recordings In Teaching Instrumental Music In Minnesota, Mark E. Lammers

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of this study was to survery the extensiveness of the use of disc recordings and to make suggestions as to how such uses might be increased.  More specificially, it seeks to answer the following quetions: 1. What types of recordings are currently being used in instrumental teaching? 2. What are the criteria for selecting records and playback equipment? 3. How may more adequate equipment be made available to schools?

A Study Of The Importance Of The Fine Arts In A Balanced Curriculum, William O. Sargent

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Youth Choirs In The Presbyterian Churches, U.S.A. Of The San Joaquin Presbytery, California Synod, Samuel J. Barkman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Information received during interviews with fifteen prominent choral directors, ministers and laymen of different communities end questionnaire responses from thirty of fifty churches of the San Joaquin Presbytery of tho Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., indicates almost unanimously that there is a growing need. and also a growing awakening among the youth of the church for participation in church musical activities.

For many years churches, large and small, have been struggling with the difficult problems of providing satisfactory musical experiences for both the adults and the youth in the churches of various denominations. For the large churches, with large budgets at their …

Music And The High School Library, Neva Buckley

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Music Theory In Junior Colleges Of Northern California: A Survey And Analysis In Terms Of The Terminal And Transfer Functions, Robert Lawrence Meadows

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem considered in this study arises from the different functions and objectives of the Junior college. From the time the Junior college was established to the present day, objectives, purposes and functions of this unique institution have been changing.Much has been recommended by music education organisations regarding the objectives of the Junior college music department. In 1938 a Junior college music committe submitted to the Music Educators National Conference the following objectives for the Junior college music department: 1. To meet the needs of the community in the enrichment of social living through; a) Ability to participate in some …

A Critical Analysis And Study Of The Problems Of Intonation In The Band Ensemble, Harold H. Bartlett

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this treatise is not so much to discover heretofore unknown facts through original research; however, certain research is planned to assist in deleting the obvious handicaps one might encounter from using faulty instruments or mouthpieces, but rather to assemble under one cover practical data that may be of value in improving intonation in the band ensemble. Various definitions of terms will be established, purposes determined, opinion and methods of teachers evaluated, conclusions reached, and highlights of other persons’ experiments that may bear upon the subject will be presented.

New Mexico Musician Vol 5 No 1 (October 1957)

New Mexico Musician

Wadley's Report 5

Improvizations 6

Cooperation 6

Tribute 6

NMMEA State Teachers Convention Sessions 7

U.N.M. Dean of Fine Arts 7

NMMTA eventh Annual Convention 9

At the Helm 9

New Teachers 10

Around the Horn 10

Calendar of Events 12

New Officers 13

Volume 75, Number 05 (May-June 1957), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Josef Hofmann, 1876-1957

Igor Stravinsky, Approaching his 75th Birthday, is Truly a Colossus of Modern Music

Music in the High School Gym

Good Vocal Habits (interview with Renata Tebaldi)

What Power Professional Criticism

Thalberg's Erard: A Discovery

An Intriguing Account of the Various Operational Details Requiring Careful Attention . . . Behind the Opera Curtain

Books on American Music: A Selected Bibliography

Music in the Schools

Choral Potential From the Baroque Era

Music to Link Mankind: The Story of the Formation of an Important Body Having to Do with International Relations

New Mexico Musician Vol 4 No 3 (April 1957)

New Mexico Musician

What Grade Is It? 5

New Building 5

Camp Time 6

Successful Music Teacher 7

Congratulations & Memorials 8

Double Trouble 9

You Fix Them 9

New Officers 12

Volume 75, Number 04 (April 1957), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Folk Music and Art Music

Playing with Orchestra (interview with Alec Templeton)

Community Solves its Music Crisis: The Inspiring Story of The Bronx Symphony

Orchestra Genius Lies in the Individual

Miniature Opera from Salzburg

Kostelanetz on Conducting, Conductors and Batons

Drama in Song: A Discussion of the Importance of Clear Enunciation on the Part of Singers

A Glimpse of the Inner Workings of One of the Largest Summer Music Camps is Gained from These Day to Day Entries . . . From the Music Camp Office

Henry Cowell—Musician and Citizen, Part 3

Richard Rodgers on Current Trends in Popular Music

Volume 75, Number 03 (March 1957), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hail and Farewell to The Grand Old Man of Music Confusion

Confounded: An Objective Explanation of Some Frequently Perplexing Musical Terms

Singing Must be Natural (interview with Victoria de los Angeles)

Music's Part in Social Integration

Mariachis of Mexico

Henry Cowell—Musician and Citizen, Part 2

Music in the Schools High School Symphony Orchestra . . . How It Is Made

New Studio

Volume 75, Number 02 (February 1957), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

International Aspect of Folk Music

Candlelight Concerts in Colonial Williamsburg

Don't Shy Away From Adult Beginners

Singing on Television (interview with Lois Hunt) Impressions of Musical Education in the United States

Henry Cowell—Musician and Citizen Shape Notes, New England Music and White Spirituals, Part 2

We Can Co-operate

Staccatos for the Sightless New Vistas in Music Programming for Radio

Volume 75, Number 01 (January 1957), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Philadelphia's Academy of Music . . . One Hundredth Anniversary

Story of Roy Harris—American Composers, Part 2

Some Impressions of Music Education in Japan

Louis Moreau Gottschalk—First American Concert-Pianist

Shape Notes, New England Music and White Spirituals

Approach to Chopin's Etudes (interview with Ruth Slenczynska)

Music in the Schools

Madrigal Group is Fun Composer, Conductor, Comedian . . . That's Jackie Gleason

American School Music: An Assessment

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1957-1960, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1957-1960 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, images of student and campus life, department descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, course and program descriptions, information about student services, and tuition information.

New Mexico Musician Vol 4 No 2 (January 1957)

New Mexico Musician

Southwestern Convention News 5

Shacklette Says 5

NMMT A Convention 7

Meet Our Guest 8

13th Annual Clinic Program 9

NMMTA Certification 12

Clinic Broadcast 12

An Evaluation Of The Selection, Recruitment And Sustaining Interest Of Beginning Band Students Of The Northeast Quadrant, Decatur Public Schools, Decatur, Illinois, Merton L. Johnson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Three Debussy Preludes Transcribed For Symphonic Band, Purcell Keyboard Suite V For Woodwind Choir, And Bela Bartok Dance And March For Brass Choir, Rea Alsup

Music ETDs

Three Debussy Preludes Transcribed for Symphonic Band, Purcell Keyboard Suite V for Woodwind Choir, and Bela Bartok Dance and March for Brass Choir

The Introduction Of Contemporary Dissonance To The String Program At The Secondary Level, Gene Thomas Allen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It was the purpose of this study (1) to select and arrange contemporary compositions for string ensembles; (2) to use these materials for instructional purposes in introducing contemporary music to the string program.

Importance of the study. It is assumed that there is a need tor contemporary music in the school music program.

Volume 74, Number 10 (December 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Obituary - Guy Maier (1890-1956)

Béla Bartók and Hungarian Folk Music

Story of Roy Harris—American Composer

Cradle of Music: A Brief Visit to One of the Most Interesting of Old-World Music Publishing Houses

Some Basic Issues in Music Education

Operas of Hugo Weisgall

Volume 74, Number 09 (November 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Carl Orff's Musical Theatre

World Ballad of Bady Doe

Responsibility of Music Education to Music—A Reply

Opera for all America: Chandler Cowles, General Manager of NBC Opera Company, Outlines His Ideas Concerning the Project

New Mexico Musician Vol 4 No 1 (October 1956)

New Mexico Musician

Improvization 5

"Six Full Hours" 5

Stephenson Reports 5

NMMEA State Teacher Convention Session 7

NMMTA Sixth Annual Convention 8

About the Auditions 12

All State Band 12

Volume 74, Number 08 (October 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Folk Music in Civilization

In Memorium - Mrs. Eduard MacDowell (1857-1956)

Wallingford Riegger—Composer and Pedagog

Loring Club

Bach of High Fidelity (interview with Robert D. Darrell)

Glenn Gould, A Début and a Personality

Volume 74, Number 07 (September 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Focus

Responsibility of Music Education to Music

Music in the American Wilderness

Picture Painted in Sound: Alden B. Dow Creates a New Art Visualizing Music

Pianist's Page

Waltz and Brahms' Opus 39

Volume 74, Number 06 (July-August 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Focus

Daylight and Darkness: Robert Schumann and the Years after Leipzig

Lieder Singer (interview with Irmgard Seefried)

Charles E. Ives, Part Two

Robert Schumann: Across the Years

A Survey Of Music Programs In Christian Schools Of America, Robert V. Talsma

Masters Theses

Music departments of the Christian schools have experienced very rapid growth during the last two decades and appear to possess wide variance in the nature of their development in subject offering and time allotment. This study was designed to survey the music programs of the Christian schools in America to determine the extent to which music subjects are a part of the offerings of these institutions.

Volume 74, Number 05 (May-June 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Charles E. Ives . . . A Composer With Something to Say

Music, Music Everywhere: A Resume of the Most Important Festivals that Take Place this Summer in European Music Learning to Learn Bach (interview with Rosalyn Tureck)

Diction in Singing, Part 2

New Mexico Musician Vol 3 No 3 (March 1956)

New Mexico Musician

Improvization 6

Certification 7

Shacklette Says 7

Start the Strings 8

Double Trouble 10

Convention Attendance 10

Groups Perform 11

Music Week 11

Volume 74, Number 04 (April 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Music Educators National Conference

In Memorium: Edwin Franko Goldman (1878-1956)

Personal Memories of Cortot as Artist and Teacher

Diction in Singing

National Interscholastic Music Activities Commission

MTNA in Action Music in Focus National Federation of Music Clubs . . . America's Most Far-Flung Musical Organization

Phi Mu Alpha (Professional Music Fraternity) . . . What it is and What it Does

National Association of Teachers of Singing

Story of Sigma Alpha Iota

Stepping Stones to West Point (interview with John A. Davis, Jr.)

Volume 74, Number 03 (March 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

They Make Music Wherever They Go

Southpaw Solo Flight

Preparing a Career in Opera (interview with Joseph Rosenstock)

Porgy and Bess in Moscow

Boys Like to Sing!

Through Their Music They Build Democracy

Volume 74, Number 02 (February 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Inside the Paris Opéra

Music in Focus

Georges Enesco, As I Knew Him

People's Music School in Sweden

Timeless Turntable: A Most Interesting Review of the Development in the Recording Field Since the Coming of the LP Era