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Direct linkSiljamäki, Eeva – Research Studies in Music Education, 2022
This instrumental case study explores and theorizes on the educational potential and value of free collaborative vocal improvisation, a process that enables equal access to music regardless of musical skills. The focus of the article is on the musical activities of an adult choir in Finland that applied tenets from improvisational theatre to…
Descriptors: Music, Music Activities, Singing, Case Studies
Anna Kuoppamäki; Fanny Vilmilä – Research Studies in Music Education, 2024
This study explores young people's arts participation through music-making in Finland and the factors that may regulate that participation. It seeks to understand the construction of active modes of arts participation in and through adolescents' musical life courses. The interview study was conducted with young people (N = 18) participating in…
Descriptors: Music, Musicians, Music Education, Access to Education
Chandler, Michael D. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2018
Improvisation is an area of interest to both music education researchers and music educators alike. The purpose of this literature review was to examine extant studies related to improvisation at the elementary level. Selected research included the nature of improvisation, the amount of instructional time and activity type used, the development of…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Music, Music Education, Elementary School Students
Huovinen, Erkki; Tenkanen, Atte; Kuusinen, Vesa-Pekka – International Journal of Music Education, 2011
The aim of this article is to assess the relative merits of two approaches to teaching musical improvisation: a music-theoretical approach, focusing on chords and scales, and a "dramaturgical" one, emphasizing questions of balance, variation and tension. Adult students of music pedagogy, with limited previous experience in improvisation,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Creative Activities, Teacher Education
Download full textFinnas, Leif – Online Submission, 2008
Fifteen sixteen-year-old Fenno-Swedish compulsory school pupils' descriptions and evaluations of significant, i.e. more or less "strong", experiences relating to dramatic art (film, theatre) were analysed and compared with reported experiences in other aesthetic areas (music, nature etc.). The drama area was represented in many…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Music, Place of Residence, Leisure Time
Paananen, Pirkko – Music Education Research, 2006
In the statistical and transcriptional analyses reported in this exploratory study, original rhythms of 6-11-year-old children (N=36) were examined. The hypotheses were based on a new model of musical development, and tested empirically using non-pitch rhythmic improvisation in a MIDI-environment. Several representational types were found in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Music, Multivariate Analysis
