Author : Michael S. Hammond
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Musical dictation
ISBN :
Author : Harold Thomas Karl
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Joseph David Ferrante
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN :
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of regularly employed melodic dictation tasks on the sight-singing skills of high school choral students. The questions the researcher sought to answer were: (1) Is there a significant difference in test scores for sight-singing skills between high school choral students who participate in regularly employed melodic dictation tasks and those who do not? (2) Does membership in a beginning or advanced choir have a relationship to the effects of regularly employed melodic dictation tasks on high school choral students' sight-singing skills? Both sight-singing and melodic dictation require skill in pitch perception. While sight-singing requires skill in transferring visual symbol to vocal sound, melodic dictation requires skill in transferring sound to visual symbol. Both activities involve the skill of recognizing pitch relationships contained within a melody. It is this commonality that spurred this study's investigation. Ultimately, conducting this study sought to contribute data that may be used to improve sight-singing skills among high school choral students. This experimental study was conducted over a period of 11 weeks. Participants (N = 70) consisted of a convenience sample of 9 th through 12 th grade students in two high school mixed choirs. Participants were randomly assigned to either a control group or an experimental group. Prior to treatment, participants individually sight-sang a melody for purposes of assessing sight-singing skill. During the treatment period, all participants were involved in a 9-week period of sight-singing instruction as part of regularly scheduled choir rehearsals occurring 4 times per week. Members of the experimental group also received instruction involving melodic dictation twice per week. During the melodic dictation tasks the control group members were separated from the experimental group. For the posttest, all participants individually sight-sang a different melody than was used for the pretest. Both the pre- and posttests were audio-recorded and scored for sight-singing accuracy. A two-way Analysis of Covariance was used to determine if there was a significant difference in posttest scores between control and experimental-group participants within each choir as well as a significant difference in posttest scores between the two choirs based on the independent variables.
Author : Grover C. Yaus
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 1999-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457452065
Covers the division of measures including counting rest values as well as note values. A mistake in counting note values while playing is heard and corrected by the instructor, but counting rest values is a silent business and difficult at times for the instructor to detect just where the mistake was made, or who made the mistake. 101 Rhythmic Rest Patterns will help solve that problem, as the unison feature will enable the instructor and the whole ensemble to count aloud all in unison, on any or all rest patterns until each rest pattern is perfect.
Author : Harold F. Abeles
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN :
Preface. Introduction: Why Study Foundations of Music Education? 1. History of Music Education. 2. Philosopbical Foundations of Music Education. 3. The Musical and Aesthetic Foundations of Music Education. 4. The Role and Purpose of Music in American Education. 5. Sociological Foundations of Music Education. 6. Social Psychological Foundations of Music Education. 7. Psychological Foundations of Music Education. 8. Application of Psychology to Music Teaching. 9. Curriculum. 10. Assessing Musical Behaviors. 11. Research and Music Education. 12. Teacher Education and Future Directions. Index.
Author : David Trippett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107014301
Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age.
Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429955198
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Micheal Houlahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190236140
In this new edition of their groundbreaking Kodály Today, Mícheál Houlahan and Philip Tacka offer an expertly-researched, thorough, and -- most importantly -- practical approach to transforming curriculum goals into tangible, achievable musical objectives and effective lesson plans. Their model -- grounded in the latest research in music perception and cognition -- outlines the concrete practices behind constructing effective teaching portfolios, selecting engaging music repertoire for the classroom, and teaching musicianship skills successfully to elementary students of all degrees of proficiency. Addressing the most important questions in creating and teaching Kodály-based programs, Houlahan and Tacka write through a practical lens, presenting a clear picture of how the teaching and learning processes go hand-in-hand. Their innovative approach was designed through a close, six-year collaboration between music instructors and researchers, and offers teachers an easily-followed, step-by-step roadmap for developing students' musical understanding and metacognition skills. A comprehensive resource in the realm of elementary music education, this book is a valuable reference for all in-service music educators, music supervisors, and students and instructors in music education.
Author : Oecd
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2019-05-27
Category :
ISBN : 9789264697553
Author : Susan Rankin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108381782
Musical notation has not always existed: in the West, musical traditions have often depended on transmission from mouth to ear, and ear to mouth. Although the Ancient Greeks had a form of musical notation, it was not passed on to the medieval Latin West. This comprehensive study investigates the breadth of use of musical notation in Carolingian Europe, including many examples previously unknown in studies of notation, to deliver a crucial foundational model for the understanding of later Western notations. An overview of the study of neumatic notations from the French monastic scholar Dom Jean Mabillon (1632–1707) up to the present day precedes an examination of the function and potential of writing in support of a musical practice which continued to depend on trained memory. Later chapters examine passages of notation to reveal those ways in which scripts were shaped by contemporary rationalizations of musical sound. Finally, the new scripts are situated in the cultural and social contexts in which they emerged.
