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Ua11/1 The Western Newsician, Vol. Iv, No. 1, Wku Music Aug 1954

Ua11/1 The Western Newsician, Vol. Iv, No. 1, Wku Music

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about the WKU Music department. Includes faculty, student and music group news.

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Ua68/9/1 The Western Newsician, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Wku Music Jan 1953

Ua68/9/1 The Western Newsician, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Wku Music

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about the WKU Music department. Includes faculty, student and music group news.

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Ua68/9/1 The Western Newsician, Vol. 2, No. 1, Wku Music Aug 1952

Ua68/9/1 The Western Newsician, Vol. 2, No. 1, Wku Music

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about the WKU Music department. Includes faculty, student and music group news.

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A Course In High School Music For Beginners - A Teachers Manual, Bertram Shearer Jul 1951

A Course In High School Music For Beginners - A Teachers Manual, Bertram Shearer

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The main purpose of this thesis is to provide a manual for music educators who will teach a general music course for one nine-month period which shall form the basis for one unit of high school credit. The class will meet for one forty-five minute period every day, and is designed for the students in the ninth grade.

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Ua68/9/4 Department Of Music: A Pictorial Outline Of Its Nature & Activities, Wku Music Jan 1948

Ua68/9/4 Department Of Music: A Pictorial Outline Of Its Nature & Activities, Wku Music

WKU Administration Documents

Promotional booklet regarding the WKU Music department includes many photographs of the Music Building, bands, orchestra and choirs, lists faculty and curriculum.

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A Year's Choral Study For The Small High School, Martha Strawn May 1947

A Year's Choral Study For The Small High School, Martha Strawn

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This investigation is an attempt:

To present the outstanding problems and difficulties which are likely to arise in the process of organizing a mixed chorus in the average small four-year high school, and in directing the chorus during its first year.
To analyze these difficulties and to suggest techniques of treating them, based on the experience and recommendations of authorities in the field of choral conducting, and also based on the writer's personal contacts with the field of choral music as a student and as a director.

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Classical Music In Early Kentucky, 1850-1889, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1947

Classical Music In Early Kentucky, 1850-1889, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

No abstract provided.

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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.

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Analysis Of Public School Music Curricula Of The State Teachers Colleges In The United States, Louise Jackson Funk Dec 1936

Analysis Of Public School Music Curricula Of The State Teachers Colleges In The United States, Louise Jackson Funk

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

There is very little literature pertaining to the Public School Music curriculas of the state teachers colleges in the United States.

Various questions, however, have arisen in each institution relative to the required music courses and to the number of hours that should be required of a public school music major. Music teachers disagree as to the text to be used in music courses. Of all the various public school music texts available it is difficult to find any one text that is most worthy of recognition as there seem to be many of equal value. Not only is there …

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The Status Of State Teachers College Bands, Nathalee Ewing Jul 1934

The Status Of State Teachers College Bands, Nathalee Ewing

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

What personal traits are desirable in the band director? What educational qualifications should be required? How much experience should he have before assuming the position of college band director? What should be the organization of the component parts of the band? Who should compose the personnel? What credit should be given for such services? Who should support the organization and supply such equipment as uniforms, library, and instruments?

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Ua64/10 High-Senior Day Program, Wku Physical Education & Recreation, Wku Music Apr 1934

Ua64/10 High-Senior Day Program, Wku Physical Education & Recreation, Wku Music

WKU Administration Documents

High School / Senior Day program description. This took place in the Health & Physical Education Building which is now Helm Library.

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Ua45/6 Commencement Concerts, Wku Registrar Jun 1922