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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 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 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 ...
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....
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.
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 ...
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 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...
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)
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 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...
A study of the effect of the periods of gestation and lactation upon the growth and composition of swine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
Growth is at the base of organic production. In recent years an increasing importance has been attached to its study and to the conditions affecting it. Davenport says: "The importance of the study of growth cannot be over estimated. The maintenance...
Relation of lime and magnesium to plant growth in Missouri soils
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
with success; sometimes with medium results and sometimes with apparent failure. SIR JOHN BENNET LAWS and SIR JOSEPH HENRY GILBERT were the first to make accurate observations upon the practice of liming. They found that the white or "fat lime" would produce...
A Study of the Optimum Starting Time for the Beginning Band Class
(1969-05)
This study will attempt to determine (1) when most authorities start
their beginning band students, (2) why they are begun at this time, and
(3) if there is an optimum starting time. Chapter I will review literature
believed ...
On the behaviour of fuse wires
(University of Missouri, 1907)
The last few decades have witnessed the introduction of electricity as a factor of everyday life in its use as a source of light, power and heat. The dangers of fire breaking out, or the damaging of machines or other ...
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 ...
Work stock management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The object of this investigation is to arrive at some conclusion or determine, if possible, the most satisfactory means or methods of management of the work stock or work animals on the farms in actual operation.
The incidental teaching of English composition in the high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
At the present time, when the efficiency of every department of school work is being questioned, when real improvement is being made in the school as an adequate preparation for life, the question of the value of formal ...
The effect of liming an acid soil on the growth of certain legumes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
The experimental work for this thesis was planned to secure information as to the effect of limestone applied to an acid soil (1) on the growth of legumes, (2) on the activities of tuberclue bacteria, and (3) on the amount ...
A Study of the Fugue From a Teaching Aspect Through the Examination of Selected Examples From Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
(1978)
Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier provides
many excellent examples for a beginning study of the
fugue. Simple explanations may be made by the teacher,
based on the examples in the work. Then, as the ...