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Brass Performance Practices in the Sixteenth Century
(1989)
This paper will focus on the performance practices
involving the brass instruments in the sixteenth century. The
research involved presents an even greater difficulty. There are
two reasons for this: first, there is ...
A Statistical Analysis and Comparison of Sixteen Accompanied Art Songs From 1800-1950
(1973)
. These procedures may give us information concerning style, compositional technique, performance practices, and even a penetration into the composer's mind. Each technique, however, must be recognized as to its limitations and at no time must it become a substitute...
An Automated Teaching System for Functional Piano Skills Based on a Curriculum Study of Piano Requirements for Public School Teachers
(1966)
This study was concerned with the possibility
of utilizing economies of class instruction, yet maintaining
learning conditions of individual study; specifically with functional
piano skills necessary for public school ...
Pedagogical Comparisons of Choral and Solo Singing
(1988)
of individual monitoring. In spite of situations created by opportunity and/or necessity, the mutual and sincere concern on behalf of both the applied and the choral areas of the vocal art are evident. Based on a survey conducted of vocal music professionals...
An Analysis of Selected Works from "Ludus Tonalis" and "Concerto for Hornand Orchestra," First Movement, by Paul Hindemith Using Ideas of Analysis Found in "A Composer's World" and "Craft of Musical Composition" by Paul Hindemith
(1987)
This paper is an attempt to use an
analysis of intervals, the combination of these intervals, and their
location in musical time on selected works by Hindemith to show if
Hindemith "practiced what he preached."
The ...
The Effect of Improvisation in Given Rhythms on Rhythmic Accuracy in Sight Reading Achievement by Beginning College Group Piano Students
(1981)
The problem of this study was to determine whether college elementary group piano students who have regular practice in improvising the pitches for pieces within various combination of given meter, rhythmic notation, texture, and pitch delimitation...
Background on Bach and the Numerology Tradition
(1981)
Mattheson and Handel worked with 3 number symbols which might have been inspired by the Rosicrucian and Freemason mystery schools. Although there is no evidence of any direct association with these groups on Bach's part, there are many intriguing indirect...
Location determinants of manufacturing industry in rural areas
(Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1978-07)
The spatial distribution of economic activity has been the subject of much theoretical study during the last 150 years. The two-state study which provides primary evidence for this article is, to the authors' knowledge, the first attempt to analyze...
The Mid-Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Study of Performance Practices in Two Exemplary Works for the Flute
(1973)
It is the intention of this study to provide some information concerning performance practices encountered intwo compositions which include the transverse flute in their instrumentation. These works are the Sonata 1 op. 5, no. 1 (ca. 1762), by Karl...
The Application of the Eighteenth Century Concept, "Good Taste" to Georg Friedrich Handel's Violin Sonata in G Minor, op. 1, no. 10
(1979)
The purpose of this paper is to show one way a baroque
violin sonata can be performed today in a style consistent
with eighteenth-century performance styles. It was a common
practice in the eighteenth century for ...
Women in Context : Eight Statuettes from the Roman Period
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1995)
. They constitute a valuable addition to the corpus of small-scale Roman sculpture from Asia Minor and are of interest to scholars not only as artifacts or works of art but as importantand underused evidence for the social and cultural history of the Roman empire...
"Ouch!" Inscribed Greek Sling Bullets in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1999)
A poet on the Achaean wall
(1995-03)
Bartók's Harmonic Techniques in the Mikrokosmos
(1961)
The purpose of this paper is two-fold, in that
it seeks to clarify, relate, and systematize Bartok's
harmonic technique as exemplified in his Mikrokosmos
and ultimately, through this understanding, to enable
the performer ...
Aristotle on Responsibility for one's character and the possibility of character change
(Brill, 1974)
Aristotle's discussion of the voluntary and the involuntary occurs in Book III, chapters 1 through 5, of the Nicomachean Ethics. He is concerned to assess the conditions under which a) an action and b) a state of character ...
Vocal and Choral Techniques in England: 1980-1910
(1981)
conductors had on choral conductors. No evidence of this kind of influence was found....
Musica Ficta: A Summary of Current Views Based on a Selected Bibliography of Books and Articles Published Since 1949
(1979-07)
The hope was that when this paper was completed it would
be possible to summarize clear-cut solutions to some of the
important issues of musica ficta or at least to be able to
discuss chronological trends and changes. ...
An Investigation of the Effects of Teacher Prepared Programmed Tapes, Designed to Enhance Student Listening Abilities on Aural Concept Identification Tasks
(1989)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of post-instruction
achievement by 9-10 year old students, in a single school in Silverdale, Washington, who were instructed with teacher-prepared instructional
tapes. ...
The Vicissitudes of Common-Sense Virtue Ethics, Part I: From Aristotle to Slote
(Kluwer, 1998)
by philosophers to resolve practical issues of great concern to the public such as abortion, physician assisted suicide, our obligations to nature and future generations, and capital punishment have resulted in stalemates among members of the same schools...
A Study of the Use of Sacred Choral Literature in Selected Missouri Public High Schools
(1991)
This study was designed to investigate the use of sacred choral music in Missouri public high schools and the influence of various factors on high school choral directors when selecting sacred choral literature for the ...