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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Piano Pedagogy"”.
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Piano pedagogy: A comparative study of selected methods
Thesis (M.M.)--Boston University
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The contributions of James Lyke to piano pedagogy
… international workshops affected thousands of piano instructors and students worldwide. While co-founding the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, Lyke also served as a professor at the University of Illinois. The purpose of this study is to document James Lyke’s contributions to the field of …
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A status and vision investigation of US university piano pedagogy programs.
… “What is the current status of 20 prominent piano pedagogy programs?” and “what is the vision of an ideal future piano pedagogy program from the perspective of 20 piano pedagogy leaders?” Subjects were the leaders of the top 20 US university piano pedagogy programs. A survey study with …
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Retention, achievement, and feedback: applying research in music education to piano pedagogy
Piano pedagogy is often viewed as distinct from music education, when in fact these disciplines inform each other. While more research currently exists in music education than in piano pedagogy, this disparity is shrinking. As more universities offer PhD’s in Piano Pedagogy, research in the area is …
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Survey of the Integration of Learning Theories In American Undergraduate Piano Pedagogy Curricula
… of learning theories within undergraduate piano pedagogy courses at member schools of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). A 47-question online survey was sent to each 4-year member school listed in the 2007 NASM directory. The survey elicited 111 responses concerning …
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A Descriptive Study of the Faber Series <em>Piano Adventures</em> and Its Implications for Piano Pedagogy
The purpose of this study is to examine the <em>Piano Adventures</em> method books written by Randall and Nancy Faber. The series was thoroughly researched and developed for ten years before it was published in 1993. Since that time, the series has been enhanced and has added numerous additional …
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Healthy Piano Technique and the Prevention of Professional Injuries: An Exploration of the Schmidt-Shklovskaya-Minsker Method and its Implementation in Piano Pedagogy
… focuses on the teaching method developed by two piano pedagogues whose work with pianists' professional injuries is widely known and appreciated in Russia. Anna Schmidt-Shklovskaya based her system on the views and practice of Ivan Kryzhanovsky, a musician and medical doctor who studied …
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Training the Church Pianist: Piano Pedagogy in Southern Baptist Church Music from the Era of the Broadman Hymnal (1940) through that of the Baptist Hymnal (1975)
The Southern Baptist Convention's Music Department and state associations, with their vast influence yet often modest resources, educated generations of pianists and organists in the arts of accompanying and service playing. Chapter 1 examines the genesis of this education movement, beginning with …
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The solo pianist : a critical analysis of concepts of musical giftedness
… Drawing on research in psychology, education and piano pedagogy, it examines the specific characteristics of the virtuoso performing experience with special reference to the relationship between the pianist and her$\sp1$ instrument, performing environment, and audience. In particular, it discusses …
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Contemporary Brazilian Styles: Supplemental Piano Teaching Materials for a First Year Curriculum
… aims to provide teaching materials for beginning piano students to study relevant Brazilian contemporary styles. These teaching materials were created from descriptions of representative teaching pieces that exemplify the main stylistic tendencies in contemporary Brazilian music. These styles were …
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Piano Teaching in China During the Twentieth Century
In this study of piano teaching in China, the author reviews the history and influence of western music and piano in China, the method and educational system of piano teaching as well as the aspects of changes and development in China in the twentieth century. Beginning with the century, along with …
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An approach for the advanced pianist toward developing concepts and control of vertical and horizontal motion : the two fundamental directions of movement in piano technique
… offers a pedagogical approach to the advanced piano student who needs technique refinement in the areas of dynamic control and disjunct motion. The approach is based on the writings of Otto Ortmann and later writers who have followed and extended Ortmann's studies of piano technique. The …
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From Music to Medicine: Transfer of Motor Skills from Piano Performance to Laparoscopic Surgery
… from one domain of expertise to another, piano performance and surgical training serve as a relevant, interdisciplinary context in which to study the transfer of motor skills given both have relatively well-established levels of performance and require complex fine motor skills. Musicians …
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New Arrangements of Selected Taiwanese Popular Songs for the Early-Elementary Piano Student
… existing music, intended to supplement existing piano methods for early elementary piano students. It presents ten personal arrangements of Taiwanese popular song melodies for solo piano with teacher accompaniment parts. Should teachers wish to create music they believe their own students would …
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A survey of elementary piano repertoire: A piano instructor’s resource
This project opens with the premise that some piano instructors are unaware of or don’t have immediate access to elementary literature written by notable composers over the last few centuries. At times, this can lead to a student learning only from methods, resulting in a keyboard education that …
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Effects of practice strategies, metronome use, meter, hand, and musical function on dual-staved piano performance accuracy and practice time usage of undergraduate
… metronome, meter, hand, and musical function on piano performance accuracy of undergraduate music majors enrolled in piano class (N=39), and 2) To assess the effects of practice strategies on practice time relative to two unfamiliar pieces of keyboard music. Throughout an eight-week training …
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The Benefits of Adult Piano Study as Self-Reported by Selected Adult Piano Students.
… was to assess the benefits that selected adult piano students reported receiving from their study. Adult piano students (N = 711) from 24 states representing all geographic regions of the U.S. each completed a questionnaire containing 31 individual benefit items. These benefits were organized …
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Janetta McStay: A pianist and teacher's legacy
… was the country’s first full-time lecturer in piano at the University of Auckland where she taught from 1963 to 1982. The majority of the data was gathered through primary research in a series of interviews with McStay’s former students in order to find out her pedagogical methods, their …