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Mia Detwiler – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Violin repertoire composed in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries placed new demands on performers. While numerous pedagogues have written etudes and treatises analyzing traditional techniques, far fewer have thoroughly examined contemporary techniques. Many of the existing etudes and exercises inspired by contemporary violin…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music Education, Music Techniques, Musical Composition
Jonathan McElroy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This instrumental case study utilized an ABR component to investigate music composition as a pedagogical tool in higher education. This was achieved through three facets: gaining an understanding of undergraduate students' compositional experiences, students' accounts of the pedagogy's impact upon their learning, and through the educator's…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Composition, Undergraduate Students, Instructional Effectiveness
Tanya Honerman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The ability to identify errors by sight and sound--commonly referred to as "error detection"--is a musical ability needed in a variety of music professions. Instructors of undergraduate aural-skills courses often agree that strong error-detection skills are an essential outcome of these courses; however, error-detection activities are…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Music, Aural Learning
Kateri Marie Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate song teaching approaches and their effect on the singing accuracy of third grade elementary students using an original song with no repeated phrases. Students (N = 318) and teachers (N = 22) were from a large school district in the Western United States with a diverse demographic population. Three song…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Music Education, Singing, Accuracy
Luh, Katherine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study is to examine guitar tablature as a strategy to facilitate student-led learning in order to contribute to liberation of music students in the elementary setting. This researcher seeks to understand the effect it has on beginning guitar students in elementary school and what role, if any, it should take in an elementary…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Elementary School Students, Music Reading
Howell, Todd Philip – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Music educators strive diligently to develop musically literate student musicians. Sight-reading new music is one way of displaying music literacy because musicians must simultaneously synthesize an understanding of music notation and technical performance skills. Teaching students to sight-read is important towards developing an independent…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Music Reading, Musical Composition
Joao Paulo Casarotti – ProQuest LLC, 2015
German-born composer Ernst Mahle (b. 1929) holds a respected position in the music field in Brazil, his adopted country since 1951. Mahle is the artistic director and co-founder of the "Escola de Musica de Piracicaba," one of the most important musical institutions in Brazil. His work has focused on conducting, composition, and…
Descriptors: Musicians, Musical Composition, Music Education, Elementary Education
Pei-Hsuan Chung – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this treatise is to study Tyzen Hsiao's "Memories of Home" as a pedagogical tool to introduce Romantic and Impressionistic styles to intermediate students. This work includes "Prelude, Memory, Playground, Ancient Taiwanese Melody, Elegy, and Frolic." This monograph is divided into four chapters as follows:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Western Civilization, Music, Teaching Methods
Hall, Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study analyzed the meaning-making practices of urban adolescents participating in a college preparatory program featuring philosophical inquiry into cosmopolitanism and the creation of multimodal texts. In contrast to studies of composing that focus on individual outcomes, this dissertation traced group meaning making. The study…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Qualitative Research, Urban Schools, Adolescents
Marrinan, Nora Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2008
This researcher sought to investigate the relationship between perceptual learning modalities of fifth grade elementary school students and their compositional processes and products. Music composition, at the elementary school level, has been studied for many years, as the creation of new music can give students a more active role in learning,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Music