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Description:: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of applied improvisation and composition assignments that were related to and reinforcing of curriculum content on fifth-grade students' ability to sight-read traditional music notation, ability to learn to play the soprano recorder, and understanding of music theory. Specifically, the research...
Keyword:: learning, composition, divergent, creativity, convergent, and recorder
Subject:: Music Education
Creator:: Lois Veenhoven Guderian
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/14/2018
Date Modified:: 09/14/2018
Date Created:: 2008-11-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The purpose of this mixed methods study was to learn about the ways that instrumental music teachers in Chicago navigate the urban landscape. The design of the study most closely resembles Creswell and Plano Clark's (2007) two-part Triangulation Convergence Mixed Methods Design, with the addition of an initial exploratory focus...
Keyword:: mixed methods, urban, music education, Chicago, music teaching, and instrumental music
Subject:: Music Education
Creator:: Kate R. Fitzpatrick
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/07/2018
Date Modified:: 09/07/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The primary purpose of this study was to describe what comprises an undergraduate compositional identity. Building upon recent research investigating musical identities with a social psychological framework (Macdonald, Hargreaves, & Miell, 2002), I examined the confluence of socially based experiences that shaped four undergraduate composers' lives. Specifically, this study investigated...
Keyword:: composition, undergraduate music majors, creativity, storyboards, case study, and music education
Subject:: Music Education
Creator:: Bruce Allen Carter
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/31/2018
Date Modified:: 08/31/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Musical theater is a discipline that, by its very nature, engages several disciplines, specifically music, visual art, theater, and dance. The elementary classroom is a viable setting for the study of the arts in an interdisciplinary manner, yet the number of studies examining interdisciplinary instruction with regard to elementary music...
Keyword:: Music Education, Elementary Education, Music, and Fine Arts
Subject:: Music Education
Creator:: Kelly Roberts
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-07-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This study investigates the nature of the face-to-face interactions and collaborations between secondary school students and community members in the nested contexts of the classroom and a local Italian community, both situated in a large city in Canada. Students used the tools of inquiry of cultural ethnographers, interviewing members of...
Keyword:: cultural anthropology, communal database, intercultural, ethnography, and student researchers
Subject:: Music Education
Creator:: Valerie Ruth Peters
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/13/2018
Date Modified:: 08/13/2018
Date Created:: 2007-08-28
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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