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Keyboard Sight-Playing Possibilities for Improvement
(1978)
The purpose of this paper is to examine some experiments
related to keyboard sight-playing and related
articles by successful teachers in an attempt to
establish teaching techniques and procedures which will
more ...
Sight Reading: A Survey of Investigational Literature
(1978-05)
Piano sight reading is a very complex process with
respect to both its psychological and physical aspects.
The definition of the term "read" implies that in the act
of reading there are three elements: symbols, ...
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Women in the Orchestras of West Germany and the United States: An Attitudinal and Statistical Analysis
(1988-06-20)
and 70 American orchestras. Requests were also sent to 21 German and 20 American randomly selected university-level schools of music. Each letter asked for a listing of the number of students according to gender and instrument. The data from the letters...
Falsetto: Learning to Sing the Full Upper Register Through Development of the Falsetto
(1977-10)
This project has been undertaken to show that it is possible to build the full upper register through development of the falsetto. The process is quite slow, in that it takes time and concerted effort to start with a small ...
The Biography of a Dokimeion Columnar Sarcophagus Fragment
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2017)
"It has become popular over the past few decades to view objects as not merely the passive repositories of human actions but rather as integral actors in them. One such theory that attempts to articulate the relationship ...
The History and Development of Music and Worship of the Stone Church 1873-1976
(1976)
This paper chronicles the history of the Stone Church Congregation of the (now) Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It focuses on the musical activities of the church through time.
A Descriptive Analysis of Current Sight-Reading Methods and Procedures of Selected Oklahoma High Schools
(1990)
The purpose of this study was to examine choral
directors' attitudes regarding the importance of
sight-reading skills for high school singers in
Oklahoma. Additional investigation considered the
possible relationships ...
The Contemporary American Song Cycle 1945-1968
(1969)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a utilitarian survey of twentieth-century American song cycles which were written between 1945 and 1968. The intent is to provide voice teachers and performers with a representative ...
Kodaly, Orff, and Suzuki Methods Described and Compared
(1973)
What are some of the teaching techniques and philosophies of
the above-mentioned music educators (Kodaly, Orff, and Suzuki)? It shall be the purpose of this paper to describe their methods and then make some comparisons ...
A Study of the Cambiata Voice
(1989)
A discussion of the role of the boy's treble voice
in early times is preceded with consideration of the
initial role and eventual dismissal of women's voices from
choral music settings. This summary is important to ...
Albrecht D�rer's Curls : Melchior Lorck's 1550 Engraved Portrait and Its Relationship to D�rer's Self-Fashioned Public Image
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2008)
"The image of the Nuremberg artist Albrecht D�rer with a mane of long curly hair is internationally recognizable. Its place in the collective consciousness of the Western world has been years in the making, beginning with ...
Storytelling in Medieval Wales
(1992-10)
Very little is known of the storyteller and his functions in medieval Welsh society. Welsh sources imply that tales were recited in prose by professional storytellers--the cyfarwyddiaid (singular cyfarwydd). In medieval ...