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Engaging Students in Learning Music Theory Fundamentals And Preparing for College Level Music Theory
… resources to prepare students for college-level music theory by using the keyboard. By providing visualization of patterns, the keyboard provides a superior tool to create a smooth transition between pre-college and college-level music theory instruction. In search of easing the passage between …
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Music theory pedagogy: melding Dalcroze Eurhythmics with Brain Gym®
… as a pedagogical model to teach well-rounded musicians. Ongoing research to further develop this teaching technique was Dalcroze's passion until his death in 1950. Eurhythmies was designed to be a flexible model to be enhanced as more understanding of the learning process became available. …
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Embodied Cognition in the Music Theory and Aural Skills Classrooms
… cognition positively impacts pedagogy in the theory and aural skills classrooms. This thesis defines a holistic view of the student and identifies how classroom instruction from that perspective can benefit student learning as well as overall well-being. The opening chapters provide a brief …
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The integration of music theory within the high school band rehearsal
… the high school band director in integrating music theory into the daily rehearsal schedule. These units provide a workable alternative to the teaching of music theory within the large performing ensemble.Teaching Units 1. All musical examples in these units were written to reinforce the …
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Music Theory Pedagogy for the Violin: Cognitive Philosophy and Three Model Curricula
… advanced player with a deeper understanding of music theory. The thesis suggests pairing of physical learning and musical theory at each stage of a violinist’s musical education. Chapter 1 surveys embodied cognition and cognitive artifacts. Chapter 2 applies these concepts to violin learning. …
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Partimenti and schemata: seventeenth-century educational tools applied to modern music theory education
… to incorporating Italian partimenti and schemata theory in the modern music theory classroom. Partimenti and schemata aid students in making abstract theory concepts concrete. The structure of a partimento was learned in short segments, or schemas, that a student would organize into the process of …
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Pop goes the theory: incorporating popular music into the undergraduate music theory curriculum
Popular music is an increasingly common tool for music education, with a fresh enthusiasm for the pedagogical potential of this vast new repertoire. The goal of this dissertation is to provide extensive notated examples from popular music that music theory instructors can incorporate into their …
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A pedagogical guide for teaching diatonic modality in the college music theory curriculum
Music theory plays a central role in the education of every college music major and minor. The typical undergraduate music theory core curriculum consists of a four- or five semester sequence of courses. As a result of the emphasis on traditional tonal harmony in Western music education, these core …
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The development of a game-based application for teaching and learning music theory
… applications have been developed to increase the music theory teaching and learning experience, however, there has been little research when addressing game-based learning in the music education field. Even though many game-based learning applications have been designed for the medical and …
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From Music Theory to Graph Theory: Analyzing Chord Successions in J.S. Bach’s Modal Chorales
… are a common source of analytical examples in music theory classrooms. While most of this repertoire is tonal--that is, an ordering of seven adjacent pitches that creates a major or minor scale--38 chorales are modal. These 38 chorales, as identified in Lori Burns’ Bach’s Modal Chorales (1995), …
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The Effects of Programed Instruction on Achievement and Attitude of College Freshman Music Theory Students
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:21:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7121114.pdf: 6435904 bytes, checksum: 85b6a972883f0df7e0e15cda374e9ce1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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An Investigation Of The Relationships Among Instructional Congruence, Burnout And Attrition In Undergraduate Music Theory Students
<p>Music theory is a core course in all undergraduate music degree programs. Students enter this course with varying degrees of prior subject matter knowledge, which presents a challenge to music theory teaching and learning. An incongruence between the student's prior knowledge and the level of …
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An Implementation of a Drill and Practice System to Assist in the Teaching of Basic Music Theory
In order to help a group of introductory-level music students achieve a foundational understanding of music theory, a series of computer-based instructional modules were developed using a system called Technology-Assisted Language Learning (TALL). This system, though primarily intended to be used …
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A Theoretical Basis for the Teaching of Music Theory to Music Majors at the Undergraduate College Level
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T19:40:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6910831.pdf: 7971430 bytes, checksum: e4979d1c8d4b197e7eeefd41896a5f5f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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English music theory c.1590-c.1690 : the modal systems, changing concepts, and the development of new classification systems
… to c.1690 with particular reference to English music theory. It consists of three parts the first of which considers the English writings on music, their readership, their sources, and the basic ideas for the understanding of the traditional Gamut, solmisation system and hexachordal theory. PART …
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Teaching Music Theory in High School Music classes: A Comparative Study of Current Practices in High Schools of the State of Washington
… practices in providing for the teaching of music theory in the high schools of the State of Washington.
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Howard A. Murphy, Theorist and Teacher: His Influence on the Teaching of Basic Music Theory in American Colleges and Universities From 1940 to 1973
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An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Music Theory Resources for the Middle and High School Choral Classroom with Alignment to Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards
… choral ensembles often struggle to produce musicians who are proficient in music theory skills; however, music theory and ear training skills provide numerous benefits to the student and ensemble. Promoting and fostering theory and ear training skills develop a student’s overall musicianship …
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