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A Selected Survey Of Sacred And Secular Music From The English Reformation, With Emphasis On Pedagogical Applications For The High School Choral Classroom, Caroline Morse

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

The purpose of this project was to examine the historical and applied performance aspects of music from the English Reformation, and to explore and explain the pedagogical methods of teaching this music to developing musicians in high school. I was responsible for organizing, programming, rehearsing, and conducting a recital featuring several works of sacred English, sacred Latin, and madrigal/secular songs. In addition, I was responsible for researching and presenting a lecture recital on the Tudor Dynasty, and the effect the monarchy had on the publication of music during 1517-1648.

I developed a lecture recital based upon age appropriate choral pieces …

A Comprehensive Study Of The Male Voice Mutation, Alexander A. Looney

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This research project is a comprehensive study of the male voice mutation. The beginning of the document will provide a brief history of the approach to the male voice mutation dating back to the ancient Greek and Roman times. Information and pedagogical middle school classroom application of the contemporary voice mutation theories by Duncan McKenzie, Irvin Cooper, Frederick Swanson, and John Cooksey will also be discussed. The second section will include an analysis of individual voice testing results from boys in 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grade at Miller South School for the …