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Community Outreach: A Piano Concert Designed For Children, Hsin Shih Liu

Dissertations

Evidence exists that music community outreach has been practiced for at least around a century in Western countries. However, in Taiwan, the idea of music community outreach is relatively new and not as commonly seen as in the United States. This research provides mention of community outreach organizations and individuals in Taiwan and the United States. Additionally, it is aimed to assist in designing more successful programs in the future. Included in this dissertation are a methodology of designing an effective concert program for children and the concert feedback form provided to the participants. This project featured three piano concerts …

Honoring Creative Women: Minerva Teichert Award Winner 2021, Ally Christiansen

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Effective Practice Strategies For The Performing Undergraduate University-Level Pianist, Elizabeth Ann Duncan

Music Theses & Dissertations

The intent of this study was to provide awareness of the trends surrounding piano practice pedagogy as determined by students either immersed in a university piano program or graduates thereof. The areas of study include a historical context of university music programs and the field of piano pedagogy, trends of imitative instruction, the importance of qualitative and quantitative practice, and the discovery of piano practice routines of collegiate pianists. This research project was approved for an IRB exemption by the Old Dominion University College of Arts and Letters.

Within this study, the subjects were either graduates of a collegiate piano …

Is Parental Support Necessary For Children’S Piano Learning And What Implications Can Piano Teachers Take Away From This Finding?, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

No abstract provided.

In Her Own Hands: How Girls And Women Used The Piano To Chart Their Futures, Expand Women's Roles, And Shape Music In America, 1880–1920, Sarah F. Litvin

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

American girls and women used the parlor piano to reshape their lives between 1880 and 1920, the years when the instrument reached the height of its commercial and cultural popularity. Newspapers, memoirs, biographies, women’s magazines, personal papers, and trade publications show that female pianists engaged in public-facing piano play and work in pursuit of artistic expression, economic gain, self-actualization, social mobility, and social change. These motivations drove many to use their piano skills to play beyond the parlor, by studying in conservatory, working as classical and popular music performers and composers, founding and teaching at schools, working as department store …

Misha Dichter - Pianist: Piano Master Class - Program, Celia

Misha Dichter Piano Master Class

A poster advertising the Piano Master Class taught by the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance present Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence Misha Dichter.

Misha Dichter - Pianist: Piano Master Class - Flyer, Celia

Misha Dichter Piano Master Class

A poster advertising the Piano Master Class taught by the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance present Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence Misha Dichter.

Changing Musical Canon In Depauw Piano Recitals, Eric Heaton

Student Research

In the present day, it is easy to imagine the tried-and-true simplicity of the current formula for piano recitals as something that must have always existed. A piano recital is expected to cover specific styles, genres, and composers, with a predictable framework to tie everything together. However, history reveals a wider and more varied offering of pieces, composers, and performers that could be presented in any configuration on a recital. This variety constitutes nearly half the history of the piano recital, but is not well known today. In the present directive of looking to the future for something new as …

A Relational Analysis Of Pedagogical Methods For Accordion, Electronic Keyboard, Organ, And Piano, Brian Berlin

Masters Theses

While it is expected that musicians specialize in a single area, like piano, a complete keyboard education should also incorporate experiences on all keyboard instruments. There is no single method that teaches multiple keyboard instruments simultaneously. Willard Palmer, Bill Hughes, Morton Manus, and Amanda Vick Lethco co-wrote independent courses of instruction for different keyboard instruments: accordion, electronic keyboard, organ, and piano. However, no guide to align the material exists. This study establishes objective criteria for aligning these courses and provides a cross-reference tool. The samples chosen for analysis include: Alfred’s Basic Piano Library, Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course, Palmer-Hughes Spinet Organ Course, …

Court Musician: Four-Year Starter Sam Willson Is Composed On The Basketball Court - And At The Keyboard, Charles Eichacker

Colby Magazine

Four-year starter Sam Willson is composed on the basketball court—and at the keyboard

Pianote: A Sight-Reading Program That Algorithmically Generates Music Based On Human Performance, Drew Schulz

Master's Theses

Sight-reading is the act of performing a piece of music at first sight. This can be a difficult task to master, because it requires extensive knowledge of music theory, practice, quick thinking, and most importantly, a wide variety of musical material. A musician can only effectively sight-read with a new piece of music. This not only requires many resources, but also musical pieces that are challenging while also within a player's abilities.

This thesis presents PiaNote, a sight-reading web application for pianists that algorithmically generates music based on human performance. PiaNote's goal is to alleviate some of the hassles pianists …

A Comparative History And The Importance Of Chamber Music, Aaron M. Sacks

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This capstone presentation focuses on the role of chamber music in both social and academic contexts. Using examples from the past five centuries and including local examples, parallels and divergences are drawn to points of most import. The spotlight is upon three areas: a) what the role of chamber music was in the past, compared to today; b) why it is an important genre, to both musicians, as well as non-musicians, and c) in what ways more exposure to the form can be built. Much of the focus is on composers and their influence, but the impact of and upon …

The Concert Pianist Myth: Diversifying Undergraduate Piano Education In Australia, Helen Mather

Theses : Honours

As classically-trained pianists we are in the unique position among musicians of having many employment opportunities in performance areas. In an industry where so many talented musicians are struggling to find work, pianists are regularly being offered performing work. With opportunities to pursue careers in solo performance, chamber music, accompaniment, conducting, opera or ballet repetiteur work, and in many more related disciplines, pianists are arguably the musicians with the most opportunities to create a career involving performance. However, are pianists in tertiary institutions developing the skills that would enable them to work in the music industry? Upon entering a university …

Golliwog's Cakewalk From Children's Corner Arranged For Clarinet Quartet, Elizabeth Johnson

Honors Projects

By demonstrating integrated learning through interdisciplinary connections between music performance and arranging techniques, this honors project was the culmination of a process of using my knowledge of piano and clarinet performance techniques to arrange the piece “Golliwog’s Cakewalk” by Claude Debussy from piano to clarinet quartet. To arrange the piece for clarinet quartet, I utilized my experience in playing piano and clarinet to critically analyze the piano score and decide how it would best aurally transfer to an ensemble of four clarinets. The project also demonstrates critical thinking as I arranged the piece to be at a playing level appropriate …

Choosing A Master's Degree Program In Piano Pedagogy, Angela Meyers

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

In addition to program catalogues and the internet, other resources are also valuable in choosing a school. Talk to faculty members, colleagues, and those in your school and teaching community for recommendations. Do you know other students who have enrolled in a master's program in piano pedagogy? Certainly do not limit yourself to one resource, but rather use each resource as a catalyst to get your search rolling.

Your Guide On Learning How To Play The Piano, Jankiben Patel

Senior Theses

I’ve had a strong desire to learn how to play a piano ever since my first music class in elementary school. I asked my parents if I could receive piano lessons. They saw how extremely excited I was and they agreed to seek out a piano instructor for me. Unfortunately, my parents soon realized that they simply could not afford the fees. I brought up the topic a few more times, but to no avail. In middle school, I joined the band to play the clarinet. Although my hopes of playing the piano were put on hold, I grasped this …

The Performance Interpretation Of Paul Creston's Six Preludes, Opus 38 For Piano, Ginger Anne Jensen

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to help enable a pianist to make the best possible interpretation of the work for piano, Six Preludes, Opus JS by Paul Creston. The procedure used was (1) devising alternate melodic, rhythmic, and tempo interpretations and alternate ways of pedaling; (2) consultations with the composer, which included performing the work for him and questioning him concerning the alternate methods; and (3) finally deciding upon the composer's preferred interpretation for performance of the work.

Graduate Recital, Robert D. Frankovich

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The pursuit of musical excellence is the goal of the professional music educator. The author believes that the intensive study afforded to him by the graduate program was one way in which he could improve his teaching techniques.

In addition to preparing a graduate recital. the author wanted to experience the personal growth and satisfaction of composing music. He felt that the area of composition could offer many insights which would lead to a more complete musical understanding. The graduate program also offered advanced courses in the psychology of teaching and the philosophy of education, which the author hoped would …

An Analysis Of The Thematic Structure Of Chopin's Polonaise-Fantaisie, Opus 61, Thomas Walter Bull

Graduate Student Research Papers

The analysis of the Polonaise-Fantaisie was undertaken to ascertain, insofar as can be done through the analysis of one work, whether or not Frederic Chopin's music is loosely structured and unpolyphonic as some of his critics have maintained.

Volume 69, Number 04 (April 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dilemma in Detroit: Survivors of the Detroit Symphony Support Themselves with Odd Jobs and Look for a Successor to Sponsor Henry Reichhold

Zoltan Kodaly was my Teacher

How to Teach Adult Beginners

Music Has No Short-Cuts: Solid Careers Emerge Only for Unhurried, Systematic Training (interivew with Joseph Fuchs)

It's Free—It's Fun—It's Forum!

More About the Pharyngeal Voice: Widely-Used Method in the Golden Days of Italian Bel Canto

Class Piano Teaching Gets Results . . . A Successful Teacher Reveals the Formula She Has Developed Through Years of Trial and Error

Sing with Your Fingers

Volume 68, Number 03 (March 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Richards Strauss . . . Conducting is a Difficult Business

Modern Piano Musical Metaphysics . . . Its Cause and Cure

How to Build a Voice Psychologists

Evaluate Music

So You Want to be a Piano Teacher

Structure of Music Clarence Dickinson—Pioneer of Church Music

Let's Simplify the Liebestraum Cadenzas Master Lesson on Brahms' Intermezzo in E-Flat Major, Op. 117,

No. 1 Musical Medicos

For TV Thrillers

Volume 17, Number 10 (October 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Ages of One Hundred Famous

Singers

On Program Printing

Unprofessional Advertising

Dumb Pianos

About Tuning

How Leschetizky Teaches Memorizing

Little Knowledge

First Step in the Instruction of Young Children

To a Piano (poem)

Mechanical Music

Honesty in Advertising

Actual Effect of Music Upon an Imagination

Types of Teachers, or Mayburn's Madness

Music or Notes?

Development of the Artistic Sense

Lost Ideals

Value of the Musical Magazine

How to Memorize

What Makes Music Successful?

Studio Experiences: Experiences with the Pedal

Uninterested Pupil

Conservatory and Private Teaching: Another Phase of the Subject

Musical Don'ts

What are Musical Clubs For?

Volume 16, Number 01 (January 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Suggestions for the Musical Youth

How Shall We Teach Notation to Beginners

The Gospel of Work

Musical Memory in Its Relation to Pianoforte Playing

How to Make a Living

Problem of American Teaching

Song Writers of the Day

One-Sided Musicians

Nothing But a Name!

Success is the Reward of Toil

Musical Listener

Sight-Reading

Art of Self-Criticism

Helpful Letters to Young Musicians

Cost of Study Abroad

Factors of Musical Expression

Sight-reading in Pianoforte Instruction

Why Do You Take Music Lessons?

Principles of Musical Pedagogy

Thoroughness in Primary Work

Music Education

Moral Influence of Music

Convenient Maxims, Formulas, etc. for Voice Teaching …

Volume 15, Number 09 (September 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Would-Be Paderewski

Music No Hindrance to Getting On

Some Don'ts for Students Who are Going to Germany to Study Music

Playing in Public

From Recent Programmes

Neglected Essential: Music and Languages

Self-Exaltation

Time Values

Flowers by the Wayside

Not Yourself, But Your Art

Four Stages of Student Life

Physical Exercises an Aid to Artistic Piano Playing

How a Pupil Rose to Success

Should Piano Students Attend Piano Recitals?

For the Student's Encouragement

Reading New Music

Extracts from Reinecke's Hints to Music Students

Materials and Workmanship

Ear Training

Study on Phrasing

Reed Organ as an Aid in Piano Instruction

Musical Listener …

Volume 15, Number 08 (August 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Piano and Our Girls

For Juvenile Recital: When Malindy Sings (poem)

Protecting the Artistic Sense

Can a Poor Ear be Improved?

Pianoforte Study

Whither Are We Drifting: Realism in Music

Wit of Composers

Musical Stage Fright

Bach Anecdotes

Liszt and Tausig

Story Teller: For Summer Reading

Counting Time

My Fellow-Students

Aids in Teaching Time Values

Guide to Pianists

Musical Listener

Automatism in Technic

Promising Indication

Musical Inconsistencies

Day's Practice

Appreciative Audience

Plea for Pimary Instruction in Harmony

Thoughts about the Most Salient Features of Music Life—Teaching and Otherwise

Truly Great Musician

How Music Affects Some People

Remarkable Definitions

Study the …

Volume 15, Number 04 (April 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Modern Musical Definitions

Have I Talent?

Peculiarities of Popular Teachers

Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life

Chat with Students on the Purpose of Study

Teachers Who Scold

How Do We Listen?

Ring-Finger

Hearing Colors

Musical Listener

Reading Course: Outline of Psychology

Leschetizky as a Teacher: Reminiscences of a Pupil

Keep Your Temper

Great Thoughts About the Hands

Dull Pupil

Concerning Practice and Other Points of Interest to Students

Calvé on American Musicians

Pianofore Study: Hints on Piano Playing

Volume 15, Number 03 (March 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Listener

Clayton Johns

On Choosing Music

First Lessons

Why We Have So Few Musicians

Some Wholesome Truths for Teachers

Sieveking's Mode of Practice

W.J. Henderson

Study the Nature of Melody

How Long Should One Practice?

Henry T. Finck

Soul of Music

Music Scrap-Book

Beginning and Development of Pianoforte Playing

Common Sense in Music

Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life

Why Study Harmony?

Queer Traits of Great Musicians

Art of Programme-Making

Louis C. Elson

Backward Pupils

Volume 14, Number 11 (November 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Things Which the Musical Profession Owes Itself

Music Chats with Children

American Artists

Class in Ear-Training

Mendelssohn's Piano Playing

Art and Ease

Artist vs. Amateur

Modesty in Music

Chopin's Notes for a Method of Methods

Is the Study of Music Profitable?

Difference Between Studying and Cramming

As a Man Thinketh So Is His Work

Thoughts About the Most Salient Features of Music Life—Teaching and Otherwise

Musical Mischief-Breeders

Beethoven and the Ladies

How to Stimulate Practice

Playing by Ear

Rough and Musical Bülow

Some Mistakes of the Provincial Musician

Correction

Is Mendelssohn to be Ranked Among the Great Composers?

Some …

Volume 14, Number 12 (December 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

One Hand Alone

Submerged Melodies

Fillmore, John C.

Intention and Success

Playing by Memory

Evil of the Time

Avoidance of the Commonplace

Music Chats with Children

Music Teachers' Problem

Theodor Kullak

Let Singers Beward of Doctors

Humorous Incident

Is Marriage Inimical to Music? If so, Why?

New Story of Paganini

Plea for My Last Teacher

Needs of Piano Students and How They May be Secured

Secret of Musical Expression

Extract

For the Suppression of Din

Why Study Musical History?

Obstacles They Met, and How They Overcame Them: Lessons in Perseverance from the Lives of the Masters

Most Difficult Piece

How …

Volume 13, Number 10 (October 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hardest Piano Piece

Modern Musical Crank

Absent-Minded Musicians

Art and Artlessness

Creed of the Well-Taught Pupil

Other Side of the Story

Difficult Passages as Etudes

That Other Teacher

Types of Piano Teacher

Extemporization

Interesting Interview with Verdin

Listening to One's Own Playing

Discouragements of Piano-Playing

Woman and Music

Reform Needed

Account of the Gavotte

Liszt and Chopin

Suggestions for Musical People

Lecture Recital

Phenomenal Voices

Worse Than Wasted

How Composers are Inspired

Piano in Small Parlors

How I Read the Etude

Study of Music: Small Children be Made to Study Music, Talent or no Talent?

Philosophic Reflections

Points in Music …