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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 ...
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 ...
Some factors influencing the germination of corn : a thesis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
One line of agricultural investigation that has been much neglected is that of determining what factors may influence the germination of corn. There has been in fact no direct work done along this line that is available ...
Developing Marking Policies
(1962-03-13)
Since marks and marking systems have been a favorite
topic of educators for many years, and articles criticizing
present marking policies appear with ever increasing
frequency, there obviously is a widespread belief
that ...
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 ...
A histological study of the marsupium of the unionidae
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
In connection with the extensive investigation of the Unionidae which has been conducted by the Bureau of Fisheries for the past four years, with a view to determining the feasibility of artificial propagation of the mussel ...
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...
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...
Cytological study of the development of the functional activity of nerve cells in foetal and infantile animals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
was to investigate to what extent early changes of function correspond to adult changes and to trace the progress of development. This has been done principally in terms of the nucleus-plasma relation theory of Richard Hertwig. This article is based principally...
The action of Digitalis on the cardiac inhibitory centre
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
So long has digitalis been in use as a clinical drug and so long has its action been the subject of experimentation that it would seem that there is little hope of presenting anything new on the subject. Yet so long as ...
A comparison of methods of determining the amount of radium in rocks and minerals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
This paper is chiefly the outcome of a study of the radioactivity of the rock at different depths from the surface obtained during the drilling of the University deep well number 2. The first method described by J. Joly ...
Growth and development with special reference to domestic animals. XXXVI, Endogenous nitrogen and basal energy relationships during growth
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1935)
Use of Class Time and Student Attentiveness in Seventh Grade Exploratory Middle School Music Class
(1990)
This study investigated seventh grade exploratory middle school music rehearsals with respect to use of class time by teachers and attentiveness of students. Off-task behavior was compared in team teaching and non-team ...
The Invention of the Piano and Its Development in Germany Through the Eighteenth Century
(1978-11-1)
This paper discusses the history, development, and reception of the piano in eighteenth-century Germany.
Teaching Music in a One-Room School
(1993)
The purpose of this investigation was to discover the differences and similarities between teaching music in a one-roo school prior to 1960 and current teaching practices (in a one-room school). From the information gathered evidence indicated...
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. ...
The crown gall disease of the apple : a discussion of the malady in general as applied to Missouri : experiments with the disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1903)
was also uncertain. The thing of most immediate interest was to learn whether certain remedies which it was practically certain would kill any germ of fungi or bacteria, could be used without killing the trees, and if so what strength and in what...
Minimum protein requirements for the growth of dairy heifers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
herein. It has not been the intention to show the relative value of different rations. The practical value of the experiment will lie in the results obtained rather than in the methods used....
Study of the phenomenon of barrenness in corn
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
and comment to both practical farmers and agricultural investigators as well. Strange as it may seem, however, there has been practically no work done to discover why the maize plant, or any other grain normally bisexual, should be sterile. Many theories have...
Chemotropism of fungi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1905)
The changing of the direction of growth of fungous hyphae is a complex phenomenon in which at least two factors, cytotropism and hyrotropism, are concerned. Since the complete elimination of neither of these factors is ...