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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"instrumentalist"”.
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Echoes in exile: an Armenian instrumentalist from Azerbaijan
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Effects of physical movement in rhythm instruction in early instrumentalist development
The focus of this study was to investigate if including physical movement in instruction improves instrumental music student's rhythmic abilities. Within the rhythmic instruction, the research study specifically focused on student's rhythmic ability and note reading improvements. Participants in …
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The Development and Evaluation of Six Eight Millimeter Cartridge Films and Study Guides on the Care and Maintenance of the Clarinet and Cornet or Trumpet
… cartridge films to illustrate for the beginning instrumentalist the proper procedures to follow in caring for his instrument. The study endeavored to prove that 8mm cartridge films provide a valuable means of individualizing instruction in instrumental music. For the purpose of this study, six …
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A Constructivist Exploration of the Teacher's Role: understanding the policy practice navigation between: Pedagogy, Professionalism & Vocationalism
… a particularly problematic one. The implicitly instrumentalist vision driving the practice of education (emergent in the first construct) compromises not only progressive pedagogy, but also compromises the enactment of new professionalism as illuminated in the second construct. The …
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Systematic approaches to the study of cognition in Western art music performance
This dissertation presents an instrumentalist’s perspective on cognition and meta-cognition in music performance. The goal of the study is to identify and apply methods of inquiry that are phenomenologically resonant with instrumental practice. The first chapter, situating the study in the context …
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The development and trial of a beginning band method for teaching wind and percussion instruments based on a notation system different from the traditional notation
… finding a better way to help the beginning band instrumentalist to cope with the basic mechanical aspect of performance while developing fundamental music concepts without having to struggle with the abstract nature of the symbols used in traditional music notation. An ancillary problem relevant …
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Composer and performer roles in contemporary music: an autoethnographic study
… 21st century contemporary classical music the instrumentalist has played a vital role in developing the art form. However, the input of the performer into the preparation of new works is not one which has been clearly documented. This project is a practice-led approach that articulates the …
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Indiana Jones and the temple of media: exploring the interconnection of commercial entertainment media, identity and faith in the American spiritual marketplace
… identity and the development of faith. Using the instrumentalist/substantive theoretical debate as general a point of orientation the research assesses how churchgoers redefine themselves in the new mediated spiritual marketplace, focusing specifically on the potential and tension between the …
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An Inquiry into the Theory of Action of School Development Planning constituted within the Professional Culture of the School Development Planning Initiative 1999-2010
… displaced SDP, culminating in a more instrumentalist model of planning. The study also identifies competing loci of control and power between central instrumentalist and accountability expectations on the one hand, and, on the other, the promotion of school autonomy and teacher …
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Prison a/r/tography: the aesthetic of 'captive' masculinities
… moving away from the applied umbrella as overtly instrumentalist, it can be argued from the findings that there is a possible tension of falling under the umbrella.
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‘Seeds of the Braced Bow’ (The Flower, the Seed and the Bee)
… the gaze of an apprentice! A focus on the instrumentalist, as alchemist, sonic healer and cultural treasure. The end, to point to the reality of a rich shared h’story between Afro- Asia through the making of the musical bow!
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Pierre'o Manent'o iššūkis Ronaldo Dworkino žmogaus teisių sampratai /
… gives rise to significant tensions between instrumentalist and rationalist interpretations of various aspects of the theory. In contrast, Manent’s approach is characterized by a thorough and consistent phenomenological investigation of the concepts under scrutiny. This method allows …
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A multiple case study of the ensemble experiences of three collegiate brass instrumentalists with physical disabilities
… perceptions of three different collegiate brass instrumentalists with physical disabilities. I sought to discern the meaning of inclusion to students with disabilities and the state of current inclusive practices. I also sought to understand their challenges as collegiate brass instrumentalists …
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Governing Nature, Sustaining Degradation: An Eco-Governmental Critique of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
… them in the first place. Moreover, because instrumentalist responses are quickly employed to mitigate disaster, the systemic factors productive of disaster remain concealed. Environmental disaster is thus a process of hydrocarbon capitalism rather than a product of it; as such it can, among …
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The Cultural Broker: Babette Deutsch and Transatlantic Modernism
… her efforts to challenge nationalist and instrumentalist assumptions in literature.The project establishes a theoretical foundation for analyzing Deutsch’s work, providing detailed analyses of her transnational poetry, feminist modernist narratives, innovative translation practices, and …
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Song hunters in Svaneti: Musical tourism and other intercultural encounters in highland Georgia
… the life of a key interlocutor: the Svan singer, instrumentalist, music teacher, folk ensemble director, and “songmaster” Islam Pilpani (1934–2017). In less than two decades, heavily mythicized Svaneti has gone from an isolated and dangerous rural backwater to a hot tourist destination that some …
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Internationalization of Regional Higher Education in China: A Critical Policy Case Study of A Transnational Double-Degree Program
… regional university has been mostly driven by an instrumentalist ideology (political and economic purposes) and partially driven by an educationalist ideology (academic purpose). The institutional internationalization ideology is consistent with the national internationalization ideology. A gap in …
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Intentions & effects: the rhetoric of current cultural policy in England
… of the `cultural framework', its pursuit of an instrumentalist agenda and its desire to determine and direct the effectiveness of its sponsored bodies. This effort was predicated on the assumption that there is an implicit and highly determined relationship between policy, funding, …
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ADPATIVE MODE MATCHING UPGRADE FOR ADVANCED LIGO
… but not for mode matching. Though LIGO instrumentalist can measure static mode mismatch, they can not yet adaptively correct it.</p> <p>This thesis presents a possible upgrade that will allow for sensing optical cavity mode mismatch and alignment. The upgrade will require minimal …
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