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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"stringed instrument"”.
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The individual and collective programmatic characteristics of five selected string academies in the United States
… string academies in the broader context of stringed instrument instruction in the United States and elucidates the evolution of string academy organization and instructional practices. As models of community-based stringed instrument instruction, string academies exhibit characteristics of …
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On the playability of stringed instruments
… visible envelope of the string’s motion. If the instrument is bowed incorrectly, i.e. the instrument does not “speak”, then this “Helmholtz motion” is not produced, and the shape of the string as it vibrates will be quite different. The goal of this research is to gather experimental data from a …
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New Psalms for S.S.A.A.T.T.B.B. Chorus, A Capella
… word Psalmoi, which stands for “words sung to a stringed instrument.” In a broader sense it also stands for ‘songs of praise’. In New Psalms, the composer, also the lyricist, incorporated biblical motifs into a reimagined set of poems and music. Let There Be is based on the first chapter of the …
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Exploring the relationship between college students' music participation and their intent to continue after college
… The participants were all non-music major stringed-instrument players in the Philharmonia Orchestra (n = 21) and the Illini Symphony (n = 55) at the University of Illinois in the spring semester of 2014, chosen for this study, in part, because of their status as emerging adults. The study …
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The Makhweyane bow of Swaziland: music, poetics and place
… little study has been devoted to this musical instrument. The makhweyane is played by a handful of people, each appearing to consider him or herself the last bearer of this tradition. Despite this, however, musical bows have been co-opted as icons of Swazi national identity, and, along with the …
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The Bowing Approach to Cello Playing
… and still are not completely acquainted with the instrument as a whole. Their practice has been confined to one string at a time, with the result that the student may have developed a position to fit that particular string, a position which enabled him to get at it with the least amount of …