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1 | Ballinger, Danielle Marie | Student attitudes toward the use of learning centers in the elementary general music classroom | This study investigated the attitudes of elementary-school students toward the use of learning centers as a tool of instruction in the elementary general music classroom. Participants (N=24) were members of two third-grade classes in a small K-12 independent school in Colorado. Participants experie... | Centers; Differentiation; Elementary; General; Learning; Music | 2011-12 | |
2 | Thompson, James W. | The effects of conducting-gesture instruction on high school string orchestra students' recognition of and playing response to common musical conducting emblems | The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of conducting-gesture instruction on high school string orchestra students' recognition of and playing response to common musical conducting emblems. Musical conducting emblems were defined as nonverbal movements or gestures used by conductors... | Conducting-gestures; Conducting instruction; High school music; Nonverbal communication; Orchestra students; Performance response; Music; Music education | 2012-08 | |
3 | Wilks, Nathan A. | Verse chorus verse: an analysis of repetition in popular music | Popular music is often criticized by academics for being too repetitive. However, repetition is the mechanism by which music makes sense of itself. It is a conduit for meaning â€" separating music from noise, poetry from ambient chatter. By showing that in most verse-chorus songs, the amount of v... | Analysis; Music; Music psychology; Music repetition; Popular music; Repetition | 2017 | |
4 | Kirschner, Aaron J. | Divisions without hierarchy: four-dimensional modeling of submeter and its use in empirical analysis of the musics of the new complexity | Central to virtually all scholarship of meter is a notion of beat hierarchy. However, when beat units and/or tempi are in constant flux, defining a hierarchy becomes nearly impossible. Such impulse structuresâ€"common to music of the New Complexityâ€"resist traditional scholarship of meter/sub... | Empirical Analysis; Ferneyhough; Meter; New Complexity; Rhythm; Submeter; Music | 2017 | |
5 | Landvatter, Scott Alan | Gustav Holst's Savitri Elucidated by Hindu thought | Gustav Holst, throughout his life manifesting a rather mystic penchant, was, in his early career, quite taken with Hindu writings? it was as a result of his studies in Sanskrit that his chamber opera Savitri , Opus 25, emerged in 1908. Based on a story in the Mahabha - rata, the one act opera tells ... | Opera; Hindu writings; Music | 1984-12 |