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Gormley, Kathleen; McDermott, Peter – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2016
Many people would agree the creative arts are essential for children's education and development. For years, the creative arts were integrated into classroom learning units, especially in the language arts, by using drama, music, and drawing; this was considered good teaching. In this study we examined whether contracted curricula designed for…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Creative Activities, Art Education, Integrated Curriculum
Ng, Hoon Hong – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2011
This autoethnographic study seeks the value, position and possibilities of free improvisation in the musical field. It explores how embodied knowledge, dialectical exchanges, emotional and intellectual stimulation constructs and reconstructs experiences in various contexts for the free improviser, who is both researcher and actual piano performer.…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Music, Ethnography, Music Education
West, Chad – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2015
Though jazz has been a part of many school music programs for more than 40 years, relatively little research on jazz education exists. Despite this scarcity, a comprehensive examination of the extant literature could serve to inform practice and guide future studies. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyze and synthesize the extant…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Educational Research, Creative Activities
Tedeschi, Simon – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2013
This author is quite often described by respected critics and musical peers as one of the finest artists in the world--making the young pianist's mark on music both undeniable and admirable. In this speech he shares his thoughts on improvisation. The ability to improvise is integral to the future of classical music. Classical pianists are still…
Descriptors: Music, Speeches, Creative Activities, Classical Music
Niknafs, Nasim – General Music Today, 2013
Improvisation, the third content standard for the National Standards for Music Education (Music Educators National Conference, 1994), has received less attention from music teachers. This article advocates for more improvisation specifically free improvisation in general music classrooms. The nature of free improvisation, and its evolution in the…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Creative Activities, Democratic Values
Bjerstedt, Sven – Music Education Research, 2015
Theoretical approaches to learning in practice-based jazz improvisation contexts include situated learning and ecological perspectives. This article focuses on how interest-driven, self-sustaining jazz learning activities can be matched against the results of a recent Swedish investigation based on extensive qualitative interviews with jazz…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Music Education, Music, Learning Activities
Furby, Victoria J. – Music Educators Journal, 2013
Choral directors will always be assessed by the quality of their choral performances. The concepts presented in this article are designed to strengthen and improve choral performance. If choral directors can design an individualized assessment plan and implement some of these ideas during each grading period, grades will be more equitably…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Student Evaluation, Singing
Shevock, Daniel J. – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2015
Paulo Freire was an important figure in adult education whose pedagogy has been used in music education. In this act of praxis (reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it), I share an autoethnography of my teaching of a university-level small ensemble jazz class. The purpose of this autoethnography was to examine my teaching…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Creative Activities, Music Activities
Yoo, Hyesoo; Kang, Sangmi – General Music Today, 2014
The purpose of this article is to introduce the characteristics of Korean rhythmic patterns and provide effective ways to teach Korean rhythms based on the theoretical and pedagogical approaches derived from 5,000 years of Korean musical tradition. First, we have provided the fundamental principles of Korean rhythms that represent the culture from…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Asian Culture
Palmer, C. Michael – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2016
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the role aural imitation ability, jazz theory knowledge, and personal background variables play in the development of jazz improvisation achievement. Participants (N = 70) included 26 high school and 44 college instrumentalists with varying degrees of jazz improvisation experience. Data were…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Creative Activities, Music Theory
An Approach to Improvisation Pedagogy in Post-Secondary Jazz Programmes Based on Negative Dialectics
Louth, Joseph Paul – Music Education Research, 2012
This article argues that an approach to jazz improvisation pedagogy based on negative dialectics may provide a viable solution to the threat of codification of the jazz language as a result of the academisation of improvisation studies at the post-secondary level. Some tentative means of incorporating such an approach into the design of university…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Discipline, Self Control
Ward-Steinman, David – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2011
This paper is concerned with the craft and pedagogy of contemporary classical composition, starting with an examination of French pedagogy as I received it from Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger in the late 1950s. I discuss their different points of view (briefly the global approach to composition vs. what might be termed the molecular), the…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Global Approach, Music Education
Harris, Pete – Professional Development in Education, 2014
This paper argues for the foregrounding of improvisation and education "in the moment" within youth workers' professional development. Devised in collaboration with third-year Youth and Community Work students and lecturers at a university in Birmingham, this participatory action research project drew on work of jazz ethnomusicologists…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Creative Activities, Music
Johansen, Martin Blok – Global Studies of Childhood, 2017
The words 'children' (Danish: 'børn') and 'young people' (Danish: 'unge') are so often combined that they almost have the character of idiomatic expressions. But what differences in the use of the words can be found? This article seeks to study the prevalent, dominant discourses about children and young people. In particular, it endeavours to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Youth, Language Usage
Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis A. – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2011
This paper aims to examine how specific aspects of Bakhtin's theoretical perspective might inform our understanding of improvisation. Moreover, it outlines the possible educational implications of such a perspective. Specifically, a sketch of a Bakhtinian conception of improvisation is proposed, a sketch which emphasizes the cultivation of an…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Creative Activities, Musicians