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Pierce, Michael A. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1992
Describes study of effects of learning procedures and performance tempo on ability of 64 middle school students to perform previously learned rhythmic passages. Reviews the four learning procedures used for each rhythmic passage. Finds no evidence attributed to learning procedure but significant adverse differences if the tempo was changed from…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Intermediate Grades, Music Education, Music Techniques
Music Educators National Conference, Reston, VA. – 2001
This teaching unit offers teachers, students, and their families a look at 3 centuries of history about the piano. Four lessons for high school music classes offer an opportunity to explore the cultural climate that nurtured the invention of and innovations for the piano along with descriptions of the personalities of the inventors, composers, and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Music, Music Activities, Music Education
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Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1985
This music resource book is a compilation of traditional Hawaiian mele (songs) for use as a tool in music instruction and as a means to educate students in both the Hawaiian language and in various aspects of Hawaiian culture. Music and words are provided for each song as well as an English translation. The first section is comprised of songs or…
Descriptors: Audiodisc Recordings, Cultural Education, Folk Culture, Hawaiian
Higa, Harold – 1985
The Honolulu (Hawaii) Symphony Orchestra's commitment to education includes young people's concerts and in-school ensembles. The purpose of this booklet is to enhance the educational potential of in-school concerts through the presentation of information about the orchestra and music related concepts. Part 1 describes the orchestra's personnel,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concerts, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
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Phillips, Kenneth H.; Sehmann, Karin Harfst – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1990
Investigates the effectiveness of breathing instruction on the breath management, performance, and knowledge of breathing among college-level brass musicians. Finds that breathing instruction significantly improved the breath management and knowledge of the breathing for the experimental groups and the musical range of the trombone players in the…
Descriptors: Brass Instruments, College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education
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Sheets, H. David – Physics Teacher, 1993
Describes the use of chromatic musical instrument tuners to make frequency measurements of sound waves and as an exercise in the conversion of pitch to frequency. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Acoustics, High Schools, Musical Instruments, Physics
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Rogers, George L. – Music Educators Journal, 1991
Suggests ways to solve problems resulting from imbalanced instrumentation in school concert bands. Identifies sources of imbalance. Encourages band directors to plan for correct instrumentation, to match students' characteristics and abilities to instruments, and to recruit students to play needed instruments. Discusses the benefits of balanced…
Descriptors: Applied Music, Bands (Music), Elementary Secondary Education, Music Education
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Zdzinski, Stephen F. – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1991
Discusses research literature dealing with measurement of solo instrumental music performance. Compares the Watkins-Farnum Performance Scale with facet-factorial and other rating scales. Covers acoustic analysis and evaluation of tone, loudness, and pitch. Includes discussion of computer-assisted acoustic analysis and instrumental evaluation.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Evaluation Methods, Music Education, Musical Instruments
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Johnsen, Gladys – Music Educators Journal, 1992
Presents an interview with Rebecca Bower, principal trombonist with the Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Symphony Orchestra. Reviews her career as a music student and performer and her experiences in battling sex stereotypes. Explains Bower's belief that students' instrument choices should have nothing to do with gender. Stresses her advice to female…
Descriptors: Brass Instruments, Females, Goal Orientation, Music Education
Butler, Maureen – Teaching Music, 2004
Activities in music class allow students, especially students with hearing impairments, to explore new means of expression and to enhance existing ones. Additional benefits may include increases in auditory awareness, cognitive ability, attention span, memory recall, and vocabulary. Students with hearing impairments can learn and flourish in music…
Descriptors: Deafness, Music Appreciation, Music Teachers, Music Education
Texter, Merry – 1979
Arranged into eight parts, the booklet assists instrumental music teachers in facilitating musicianship in the beginning instrumental class. Part 1 presents a description and rationale for teaching comprehensive musicianship in instrumental programs. Part 2 presents a list of student objectives and teaching strategies for beginning level classes.…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Course Objectives, Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Morin, Francine L. – 1989
This curriculum and instructional plan for Canadian schools is based on a study of the tradition of steelbands of Trinidad. The primary aim of the study was to move toward understanding how Trinidadian people view, experience, explain, and order specific elements of their musical world. The study proposed a curriculum and instructional plan for…
Descriptors: Applied Music, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Sweet, Debbie – 1980
An elementary school (K-6) general music unit presents strategies and exercises for helping students attain skills in music literacy. The first section, which is arranged by grade level, helps students read, perform, and dictate a variety of rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic patterns. The second section provides instructions and accompanying…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Melody, Music Education
Brodhecker, Shirley G. – 1987
This practicum report addresses the need to supply Head Start teachers with: (1) specific preschool music objectives; (2) a sequential preschool developmental program in music to match the child's cognitive level; (3) how to choose instructional material to encourage specific basic school readiness skills; and (4) workshops to accomplish these…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Movement Education, Music Activities
Wyatt, Charles, Ed. – Loblolly Magazine, 1979
Panola County, Texas Sheriff Corbett Akins wrote a weekly column for the "Panola Watchman" in which he chronicled the adventures and mishaps of his force. He provides a wealth of information about East Texas life on everything from making fiddles, to running bloodhounds, to finding moonshine stills. The columns reprinted appeared from…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Folk Culture, Handicrafts, Law Enforcement
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