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Baxter, Marsha; Santantasio, Christopher – Music Educators Journal, 2012
In this article, narratives of a salsa concert and a lesson with a Native American flute performer provide openings for exploring grooves and their application in the music classroom. The term "groove" is examined, along with some non-Western ideas about time as represented in the music of the West African Kpelle people. A sixth-grade…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Music, Music Education, Grade 6
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Sindberg, Laura K. – Music Educators Journal, 2016
This article describes a collaborative clinical field experience initiative conceived to provide meaningful fieldwork for preservice music educators, musically engage underserved students in a high-poverty school, and include instruction on composition and improvisation. The author chronicles the planning, implementation, and subsequent revisions…
Descriptors: Musicians, Music, Music Teachers, Musical Composition
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Ward-Steinman, Patrice Madura – International Journal of Music Education, 2014
Thirty vocal improviser-educators from Australia (n = 15) and the United States (n = 15) were surveyed for musical background, influences and pedagogical views, and assessed for personality type using the "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" ("MBTI"). The purpose was to both combine and compare the two groups to identify overall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Music Education, Music Teachers
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Wilson, Graeme B.; MacDonald, Raymond A. R. – Psychology of Music, 2012
Group musical improvisation, as a spontaneous process of collaborative creativity effected through non-verbal social interaction, is a unique psychological phenomenon and universal capacity. Existing studies focus on improvisation among professional jazz musicians, often using qualitative methods. However, improvisation transcends genres and…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Figurative Language, Musicians
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Monk, Augusto – International Journal of Music Education, 2012
The learning of jazz improvisation is often treated as the incorporation of stylistic vocabulary and development of technical dexterity. Although this methodology is effective, considering other aspects of jazz improvisation can make the learning process a more holistic and less technical endeavour. My experience teaching improvisation has led me…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills
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Blom, Diana – Psychology of Music, 2012
While research has explored aspects of inter-arts collaboration at professional and primary level, there is little on inter-arts collaboration in the tertiary environment. This article explores aspects of the learning of tertiary music students undertaking a short-term collaborative inter-arts improvisation project with dance and theater peers,…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Cooperation, Music, Classroom Environment
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Thorpe, Vicki – Music Education Research, 2012
Ensembles such as rock and pop bands are places of exciting creativity and intense, enjoyable music making for young people. A recent review of New Zealand's secondary school qualification, the National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEA), has resulted in a new composition assessment of individuals' achievement in groups. An analysis of…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Musical Composition, Musicians
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Hargreaves, Wendy – International Journal of Music Education, 2012
Idea generation is an integral component of jazz improvising. This article merges theoretical origins and practical experiences through the examination of two seminal works from Pressing and Sudnow. A comparative analysis yields three common sources with distinct characteristics. The greater body of jazz literature supports this potential link…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Comparative Analysis, Educational Practices
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Lewis, Rebecca – British Journal of Music Education, 2012
What is composing and how is it valued? What does a good education in composing look like; what constraints hinder it and is it possible to overcome such constraints? Can composing be a personal, creative and valuable activity for the school student? What role does the teacher play in all of this? These are questions that I discuss in this…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Music Teachers, Music, Musical Composition
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Anderson, William Todd – General Music Today, 2012
The methods of the Dalcroze approach to music education--eurhythmics, solfege, and improvisation--have had a profound influence on modern music education. In particular, the overt training in kinesthetic abilities, and the assertion that the relationship between music and movement is an intimate one, is at the heart of Dalcroze's approach to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Creative Activities, Kinesthetic Perception
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Whitcomb, Rachel – Music Educators Journal, 2013
Improvisation is a vital part of an elementary general music education. While some music teachers successfully include improvisation in music instruction, others have fears and face challenges when attempting improvisational activities in the classroom. This article acknowledges obstacles facing music educators when attempting to incorporate…
Descriptors: Music, Music Activities, Music Education, Creative Activities
Ko, Chia-Hui; Chou, Mei-Ju – Online Submission, 2013
Music technology is a term commonly used to refer to electronic form of the musical arts, particularly devices and computer software that enable the facilitation, playback, recording, composition, storage, and performance of various musical compositions. There has been a growing awareness of the importance of aesthetics in early childhood…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Educational Technology, Aesthetics
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Katz-Buonincontro, Jen – Journal of Management Education, 2015
This review presents a synthesis of the state of arts-based management education scholarship, with teaching and research recommendations. To begin, the lack of creativity and empathy development in management students is presented. Next, literature-based descriptions of arts-based management exercises focus on how to use improvisational theatre,…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Studio Art, Business Administration Education, Scholarship
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Birtürk, Atilay; Karagün, Elif – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The purpose of this study is to examine whether recreational activities have an effect on the elimination of state-trait anxiety of the students who will take the "SBS Placement Test" which is an exam for transition from secondary school to high school. For this purpose, as well as an information survey which determined the…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Student Placement, Tests, High Schools
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Comunian, Roberta; Faggian, Alessandra; Jewell, Sarah – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
In this article, we ask what role both digital and artistic human capital play in the creative economy by examining employment patterns of digital technology (DT) and creative arts and design (CAD) graduates. Using student micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA) in the United Kingdom, we investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Unemployment, Design
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