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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Musical Understanding"”.
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Movement as an indication of musical understanding in preschool children
… children to unidimensional changes in a musical whole. Three- and four-year-old children were asked to represent, through movement, their sensitivity to changes in dynamics, timbre, tempi, pitch (register), texture, and articulation. The population was drawn from two classes of …
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Systematic approaches to the study of cognition in Western art music performance
… the study in the context of the writer’s musical training, examines ways of studying and representing performance knowledge. The second chapter presents a case study of the preparation of Tōru Takemitsu’s Masque for Two Flutes (1959-1960). Using grounded theory methodology, this chapter …
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Contemporary Brazilian Styles: Supplemental Piano Teaching Materials for a First Year Curriculum
… methods in Brazil reflects the conservative musical context in which piano teachers train and work. This paper seeks to complement and expand the previous project by providing a sample of teaching materials that may prepare students for the variety of styles present in Brazilian contemporary …
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Stefano Landi's Arie a una voce and Early Seventeenth-century Italian Guitar Music with Alfabeto Notation
… and was a pivotal precursor to our modern tonal musical understanding. The very nature of both the instrument and its characteristic dance-song accompaniment style led composers to create block harmonies in diatonic progressions long before such concepts bore any semblance to a functioning …
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Facilitating Teacher -Student Collaboration and Student Decision -Making Opportunities in the Music Classroom: An Action Research Study
… only formal or final opportunity to develop musical understanding places significant responsibility on general music teachers to engage them in the learning process. This study documents a general music teacher/researcher's effort to collaborate with 22 fifth-grade students in developing …
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A correspondence theory of musical representation
… Once we overcome the bias of conceiving of musical works as essentially linguistic items, speech acts (performed) or sentence tokens (written), we can begin to take music on its own terms to discover how it represents—one way in which it “means.” The first step is to “naturalize” music’s …
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Rural Routes: Place–Based Music Education in Two Rural Canadian Communities
… in each music program were reflective of the musical practices in the communities. Developing place-based music programs also included the celebration of diversity and the incorporation of activities that broadened students’ musical experiences and allowed students to be leaders. The extent to …
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The status of band programs in the public secondary schools of New Jersey, 1982-1983
… aspects that are believed to be necessary for musical learning to occur. 6. Most band organizations seemingly do not over-perform. 7. Directors and superintendents believe that the emphasis being placed on performance skill, aesthetic/ artistic understanding, and social/personal development is …
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Predictors of Lifelong Learning in Music: A Survey of Individuals Participating in Performing Ensembles at Community Colleges in Illinois
… study objectives were to describe the current musical activities and behaviors of individuals, their lifelong learning process, the selected predictors of lifelong learning and the relationship between those predictors. The analysis determined that (a) individuals participating in performing …
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The Listening Artist: On Listening as an Artistic Practice beyond Sound Art
… of listening in the canon being concerned with a musical understanding of listening as a means of following abstract sonic discourse, and also to a reliance on phenomenology as a heuristic tool for analysing this listening. These approaches result in a tendency to understand listening as an …
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Toddler music: a socio-cultural/historical examination of the musical development of two-year-olds and their carers in a child development laboratory classroom
… of this study was to describe the music and musical practices two-year-olds, their caregivers, and I chose to purposefully engage in together, how this engagement reflected what was valued in various communities of practice they participated in in daily life, how this engagement reflected …