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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"musical knowledge"”.
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Representing musical knowledge
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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Children's Construction of Musical Knowledge in Early School
Third, musical learning and development proved to be domain-specific rather than domain-general. The construction of musical knowledge depended on accessibility of and familiarity with the specific musical repertoire rather than general physical or cognitive constraints. The children's domain …
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… eighteenth-century France, music was everywhere. Musical criticism and scores filled journals and newspapers, new concert houses and music shops spread across Paris, most authors addressed music in their writings, and pre-revolutionary speeches provided musical metaphors to conjure social and …
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Exploring Musical Knowledge Within One Canadian School Of Music: Ideology, Pedagogy, And Identity
… how the distribution and transmission of musical knowledges impacted the identities and consciousness of agents within one Canadian school of music which was given the pseudonym Eastern Urban School of Music (EUSM). The project was framed using Basil Bernstein’s (2000) theory of the …
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The construction and evaluation of an achievement test of musical knowledge for grades VII-XII.
Thesis (M.M.E.)--Boston University
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The effect of two methods of music instruction on the degree of liking and musical knowledge on non-music majors enrolled in music appreciation classes.
… outlines on the degree of liking scores and musical knowledge scores of nonmusic majors enrolled in music appreciation courses. A secondary purpose was to examine interactions between the methods of instruction and the students' age, gender, teacher, and primary language with the dependent …
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The Benefits of Adult Piano Study as Self-Reported by Selected Adult Piano Students.
… agreed upon benefits were Skill Improvement, Musical Knowledge, Musicianship, Accomplishment, Skill Refinement, Technique, Play/Fun, Escape from Routine, and Music Listening. The highest rated benefits in terms of importance were Dream Fulfilled, Technique, Accomplishment, Escape from Routine, …
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Chord Sequence patterns in OWL
… addresses the representation of and reasoning on musical knowledge in the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web that aims at describing information that is distributed on the web in a machine-processable form. Existing approaches to modelling musical …
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The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study
<p>This work analyzes the musical knowledge and aesthetics acquired by improvisatory social salsa dancers who hone close listening skills through corporeal means. The connections that these dancers construct between music, self, and partner make evident an engagement with musicality that can be …
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The attainment of Bentley's "Measures of musical abilities" by teachers-in-training using suggestopaedia as an instructional strategy
… was the result of evidence of a lack of musical knowledge and elementary practical skills in the majority of first year teachers-in-training at the Cape Town College of Education. This study sought solutions to that problem by assessing the effectiveness of an alternate teaching strategy, …
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Singing knowledge: aesthetics, authority and gender in Skyrian music (Greece)
… constitutes a claim to social, political, and musical knowledge, even as it provides the grounds on which such claims may be contested. I approach “singing knowledge,” along two intersecting axes: the sensual, embodied aesthetics of singing and of listening to song—and the relations of power …
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Perceptions of Effective Teaching and Pre-Service Preparation for Urban Elementary General Music Classrooms: A Study of Teachers of Different Cultural Backgrounds in Various Cultural Settings
… of commonalities: flexibility, cultural knowledge and skills, caring and responsive attitude, and musical knowledge and music teaching skills. From these meta-themes, a model of effective, urban, elementary general music teaching was generated. Findings and implications of the study were …
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Attitude and the junior high ensemble : partial fullfillment of requirements for Master of Arts in teaching
… grading system changed, performance quality and musical knowledge elevated, as did their self-esteem and their attitudes.</p> <p>Due to the research done with these students and comparing it to related research, I feel that we can safely say that attitudes are affected by many different …
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A comparative study of the guitar and the Chinese lute-pipa : an overview of their origins, construction, and techniques
… and luthiers would benefit. By learning the musical possibilities of each instrument, composers could expand the repertoire of each by borrowing their respective musical characteristics. Performers could improve both their techniques as well as add techniques to enhance their own musicality. …
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The Roles of Gesture in Piano Teaching and Learning
… in the communication of symbolic and functional musical knowledge. Factors such as gesture types (forms and meanings) and their specific outcomes in the teaching and learning processes, have been consistently overlooked in the instrumental music pedagogical context. This thesis prioritises such …
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Browning and music: a study of Robert Browning's use of musical structuring principles to unify the dramatic monologues of the <i>Men and Women</i> of 1863 and <i>The Ring and the Book</i>
… challenge as to the accuracy and depth of musical knowledge which Browning employed in fusing musical elements to poetry. My dissertation takes up this question with the aim of proving the validity of Browning’s claims.</p> <p>I begin by concentrating upon Browning’s “Music Poems” which …
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Affective-Domain Occurrences Reported by Undergraduate Non-Music-Major Students in a Keyboard-Centered Course Incorporating the Nine National Standards for Music Education and a Methodology Based on Constructivist Principles: Patterns That Might Suggest Hypotheses About Cause-and-Effect Relationships
… as a process in which learners construct their musical knowledge and upgrade their schemata based on their musical experience, while the role of the teacher is to facilitate and guide this process. The implementation of the study and the actual data gathering took place at a medium-sized, …
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Re-Imagining Higher Popular Education
… to benefit from the opportunities decentralised knowledge exchange offers us all. The research in this thesis will show that understanding the identities, processes and experiences of HPME students who are on the coal face of developing creative practice and digital cultures will play a crucial …