The purpose of this study was to examine the results of a survey, including a music aptitude test administered to eighth and ninth grade choral music students (N = 262). The survey also collected information regarding ...

The foundation of music is rhythm, and the feeling for rhythm must first find expression through the body. Because rhythms fix certain relationships and objectify understanding, they have an important place in a ...

This paper discusses a theory of matrices as applied to the composition of electronic music. As will become apparent upon consideration of the application of the theory to music composed with the system outlined herein, ...

When Liszt began writing the B minor sonata in 1852, his motive was to break up the classic sonata form and prepare a new direction for the development of piano music. This one-movement sonata is an extreme example of ...

The purpose of this study has been to locate and become acquainted with solo literature which would be useful as teaching material for high school and college level brass students. The nineteenth century was selected ...

Frank Sinatra performed with Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra from 1940 to 1942. Altogether there were eighty-three selections released on the Victor label (during the years Sinatra worked with Dorsey, the band ...

The Rothblatt collection consists primarily of Jewish liturgical music, that is, music commonly heard in Jewish synagogue services as part of the year-round order of liturgy. Having served as a cantor for over forty ...

The purpose of this research paper is to discuss specific teaching methods as a private teacher regarding breathing techniques for the beginning student, for voice therapy, and for adult students. It is necessary for ...

Folk-song is not popular song in the sense in which the word is most frequently used, but the song of the folk; not only the song admired by the people but, in a strict sense, the song created by the people. It is a ...

Although Chinese residents in America seem to have a great influence on American society and the economy, the literature explaining the Chinese people's culture is still very limited, especially in music. Therefore, the ...

The purpose of this study is to present an outline of the musical development in Taiwan during the 19th and 20th centuries and to speculate about future possibilities.

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 ...

The Viennese pianist and teacher, Karl Czerny, inherited a tradition of pianoforte instruction that enabled him to hold the center of the pedagogical stage for the first half of the nineteenth century. Czerny was the pupil ...

Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) wrote four sets of pieces for keyboard. The Clavier Übung I (1689) and II (1692) are highly ornamented, while the Frische Clalvier-Frütchte (1696) and Biblischer Sonaten (1700) contain only an ...

This work is an analysis of Aaron Copland's Piano Variations in terms of its relation to the influences of composers Schoenberg and Berg in the synthesis of his already existing style ingredients (French, jazz, Stravinskian, ...

The political and musical elements in Vienna from 1890 to 1910 are the focal points of this paper. An attempt has not been made to follow all of the government proceedings, nor to list all of the music performances. Instead, ...

The purpose of this paper is to study a selected group of orchestral works for the purpose of gaining an understanding of their various difficulties and artistic merits leading to intelligent and stimulating programming. ...

This study will be approached by the presentation in Chapter I of an overview of the composer's life and education, followed by a summary of his growth and development as a composer. This will establish a framework within ...

The comparison of choral and solo singing has often been a point of interest and controversy. It is acknowledged that if conscientious, both the studio instructor and the conductor of a choral ensemble strive for vocal ...

The purpose of this research project is to determine what choral literature was performed from 1979 through 1981 by the adult choirs of some of the larger Southern Baptist Churches in the Kansas City area. The music ...