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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Tone Quality"”.
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Using Spectral Analysis to Evaluate Flute Tone Quality
… skilled flutists place a high priority on "good" tone quality, or timbre. Timbre can be defined as the audible difference in character that a listener perceives for two notes played at the same pitch. Different timbres are determined by the combination and balance of harmonics that comprise a …
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Beautiful choral tone quality rehearsal techniques of a director
What is beautiful choral tone quality? What effective rehearsal techniques might be found if a successful high school choral director could be observed and interviewed? The primary goal of this study was to discover the strategy and technique used by a successful high school choral director to …
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The Effect Of A Researcher Composed Mouthpiece Buzzing Routine On The Intonation And Tone Quality Of Beginning Band Brass Students
… on beginning band brass students’ intonation and tone quality. The subjects (N = 43) were sixth grade beginning band brass students from a large band program in the northeast region of Mississippi. The experimental group (n = 27) buzzed a daily routine modeled by their instructor at the beginning …
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The development of instructional materials for training beginning choral conducting students to evaluate tone quality in high school choral music performance
… beginning choral conducting students to evaluate tone quality in high school choral music performance. Analysis of the problem led to the following sub-problems: (1) What characteristics of choral music performance are used in the evaluation of choral music performance? (2) What objectives can be …
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Secondary school choral directors' self reported beliefs and behaviors regarding fundamental choral elements and rehearsal approaches
… Rhythm, Technique, and Tone Quality), (2) rehearsal approaches (Micro-Macro/Macro-Micro), and (3) primary professional development influences. Demographic information concerning teaching experience and grade-levels taught were collected and considered as possible …
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John Gary Cook: Methodology of A Master Music Educator
… These include: (1) development of characteristic tone quality; (2) development of balance and blend; (3) development of intonation; (4) development of rhythm and ensemble precision; and (5) development of musical artistry.</p>
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Chet Baker : a study of his improvisational style, 1952-1959
… divided into six periods, based on major milestones: The Charlie Parker Groups (1952-1953), The Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Tentette (1952-1953), The Chet Baker Quartets (1953-1956), The European Groups (1955-1956), Quartets, Quintets, and Sextets (1956-1957), and The Riverside Recordings …
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Color of Music: An Investigation of Musical Timbre and Color Association
… to describe characteristics of sound such as tone quality, pitch, and timbre. Timbre can be described as a mixture of frequencies including the fundamental pitch that makes up what we hear when music is played by a particular instrument. While this notion that timbre evokes different color …
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The Effects of Circular Singer Gestures on Acoustic and Perceptual Measures of Middle School and High School Choral Singing
… while singing; (g) expert listeners ranked tone quality while performing with no arm movement highest for 5 choirs and while performing the low circular gesture highest for 3 choirs; and (h) 4 choirs received the same ranking from the expert listeners: (1) no arm movement, (2) high circular …
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Bassoon in the Baroque Era
… and capable of producing an infinite variety of tones, ranging from the depth of lugubriousness to the highest pitch of vivacity (198).</p> <p>The legacy of the bassoon goes back over four hundred years, beginning with the precursor to the bassoon, the dulcian. The earliest written reference to …
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Eph Ehly, all-state choir conductor : a video presentation of his philosophy and rehearsal techniques
… videotaped interviews with Dr. Ehly.The cornerstone of Ehly's approach is this: using music to express. There are three components to Ehly's philosophy: 1) the physical component, 2) the emotional component, and 3) the spiritual component. The writer identified four forms of the physical …
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Saxophone performance problems : causes and solutions
… adjustment, defective neck, dents; (5) player-tone production, technical problems, air control, tonguing, vibrato.The final chapter functions as a checklist when the cause of a problem is uncertain. Under four categories of performance-problem. symptoms (poor tone quality, intonation problems, …
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Clarinet toneholes: a study of undercutting and its effects
… of undercutting which has been applied to the toneholes. Early clarinets with small toneholes, designed to permit fork fingerings, were routinely undercut to improve the volume and tone quality. However it has been found that as keywork mechanisms allowed toneholes to be enlarged and placed …
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Music Therapists' Perspectives on the Assessment and Clinical Interpretation of Clients' Vocal Parameters
… freedom versus tension, vocal range, vocal tone quality, and/or pitch control. Results also indicated that a majority of participants used one or more of these parameters as a basis for interpretations about affect, personality characteristics, internal psychological processes, developmental …
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The Music Muse
… on a chalk board. Anyway, differences in tone quality, or timbre, are due to differences in the spectral characteristics in different voices. The Music Muse is a computer program designed to help singers train their voices by showing them the individual components of their voices that …