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Character Roles in Opera
(1996-05)
Character roles play an important part in an opera. A
character role is usually funny in nature and stands apart from the
lead role: they are shorter in length and less demanding vocally. The character may have striking ...
The Development of the Chinese Accordion and Implementation into Normal Universities
(1996)
Researchers have not investigated the interrelationship between accordion
development and accordion education in the People's Republic of China, Accordion
development and accordion education cannot exist independently, ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams's English Folk Song Suite and Darius Milhaud's Suite Francaise: The Use of Folk Song in Two Composers' Suites for Wind Band
(1996)
In England, the principal collector of folk songs
was Cecil Sharp whose undying zest for the endemic music of his country
influenced Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger to make use of this rich
fount of musical ...
Understanding Learning Styles: Strategies for Effective Teaching
(1996-05)
My purpose for this study is to gain insight into the areas of learning style and behavior, with the goal of incorporating these concepts into a practice of rehearsal and classroom teaching. In Chapter One of this paper, ...
Choral Music From the American Musical Theatre Suitable for High School and College Repertoire
(1996)
In the early years of the twentieth century, a group of men created a new art form indigenous to the United States: the American Musical Theatre. In the context of choral music, literature from the American Musical Theatre ...
A Study of Three Masses: Mozart, Bruckner, and Stravinsky
(1996)
The purpose of this study is to compare three different Masses chosen due to their
individuality, place in the history of music, and their importance to the choral repertoire of large
forms. They are: Mass in C Minor (K. ...
A Comparison of Composers' Approaches to Setting James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to Music (Samuel Barber, John Cage, Andre Hodeir, and Margaret Rogers)
(1996-04-22)
This work is an annotated bibliography of settings of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake." Featured composers are Samuel Barber, John Cage, Andre Hodeir, and Margaret Rogers.
A Study of Fifteen Piano Solo Pieces by Amy Marcy Beach
(1996)
Amy Beach's talent and originality are brought into focus in her fifteen piano solo pieces. These compositions span the years from 1889 to 1936. Beach's aptitude for music was evident at approximately one year of age when ...
Toward a Consensus of Music Educators Concerning Which Choral Literature is Most Important in Teaching High School Students
(1996)
This paper addresses the problem of identifying
specific pieces of choral literature that are, without a doubt, quality material. The goal of this study is to produce a list of pieces of choral literature high school
music ...