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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
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Peng, Fang – Music Education Research, 2023
This study aims to discuss the fundamentals of music copywriting in music education and identify pathways for integrating musical compositions into the learning process without infringing copyright and prohibiting the use of specific music pieces. To achieve this goal, the authors used methods of analysis to identify the available resources in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Copyrights, Music, Music Education
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Leung, Halina; Burwell, Kim – Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the life and work of Pierre Sancan (1916-2008), an exemplary piano teacher who, like many masters in the apprenticeship tradition, is chiefly remembered today by his pupils alone. An all-round musician, Sancan had early success as a composer when he won the Prix de Rome in 1943, and enjoyed a flourishing…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Musical Instruments, Musicians
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Hatch, Emily – General Music Today, 2020
National Core Arts Standards require students to use feedback from peers to refine both their performances and their compositions in the artistic processes of Create and Perform. When asked to give feedback to a peer, many students stop at comments like "It sounds good," and do not naturally give specific, meaningful feedback. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
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Viñas, María Fernanda; Casals, Albert; Viladot, Laia – International Journal of Music Education, 2022
The development of creative processes within the framework of music and dance constitutes an opportunity to promote and integrate learning from different subject areas. In these activities, the moments of knowledge transfer between the different parts of the curriculum emerge as key moments in the process. This article identifies and analyses the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Music Education, Dance Education, Learning Activities
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Juntunen, Marja-Leena – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2020
This article analyzes how embodied learning was enhanced in a project in which students made a music video with a tablet, combining music and movement compositions, in a Finnish seventh-grade music classroom. Student interviews and reflections, as well as researcher's field notes were used as material for the analysis. In the project, embodied…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Music Education
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Eros, John; Harrington, William; Miller, Jeffrey – Contributions to Music Education, 2020
Musical composition is widely considered to be a fundamental component of good musicianship. Recent state and national standards make it clear that preservice music teachers will be expected to include the teaching of musical composition in their curricula when they enter the field. The purpose of this study was to investigate the integration of…
Descriptors: Musical Composition, Musical Instruments, Music Techniques, Music Education
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Powell, Bryan – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2021
The recent increase in popular music education in K-12 school music programs is in part due to the expansion of modern band programming throughout the United States. Modern band is a term used to describe school music ensembles that include popular music instruments and focus on performing music that is meaningful to the students while…
Descriptors: Music Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Singing
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Mayo, Whitney – Texas Music Education Research, 2018
While there has been extensive research concerning music composition execution and benefits in general, there has been limited research found specifically regarding how the initiation of a composition project effects student anxiety levels. There have been a dearth of studies examining specific prompts or directions given to students before they…
Descriptors: Musical Composition, Anxiety, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Chen, Jason Chi Wai – International Journal of Music Education, 2020
This pilot study focuses on the use of mobile tablets to allow secondary students to compose in class with the application "GarageBand." The empirical research has two aims: to demonstrate the possibility of using mobile tablets as a composing device, and to examine professional practices for using mobile technologies in music learning.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Secondary School Students, Musical Composition
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Julia, J.; Supriyadi, Tedi; Iswara, Prana Dwija – Online Submission, 2018
Prospective primary school teachers had low skill in playing "gamelan degung" (Indonesian Gamelan). To improve skills in playing "gamelan degung" correctly, prospective primary school teachers need to be taught techniques of ringing, muffling ("menengkep"), and memorizing the compositions. Therefore, this research…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Memorization, Action Research
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Deroo, Matthew R.; Watson, Vaughn W. M. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2020
This qualitative study, based on data from an ongoing after-school literacy and songwriting initiative, examines the multiliteracy practices of Noriah Rose and Koral, Black adolescent girls, and their socially situated meaning-making and sharing about loss. Specifically, we asked, "In what ways do youth grapple with complicated meanings of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Literacy Education, Singing, Musical Composition
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Pendergast, Seth; Robinson, Nicole R. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2020
This study was an investigation of middle and high school students' preferences for various music learning conditions and secondary music course offerings. The stratified random sample included students who were and were not enrolled in school music classes (N = 827). Participants represented secondary school music students (n = 369), students who…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Music Education, Middle School Students
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De Los Ríos, Cati V.; Seltzer, Kate; Molina, Arturo – Applied Linguistics, 2021
Changing demography in the Southwest USA has shifted the racial compositions of many neighborhoods that were once predominantly African American to majority Latinx immigrant communities (Orfield and Frankenberg 2014). Today, it's common for these two youth communities to learn side-by-side in urban and suburban classrooms where they are often…
Descriptors: Racial Composition, Geographic Regions, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
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Lesser, Lawrence M.; Pearl, Dennis K.; Weber, John J.; Dousa, Dominic M.; Carey, Robert P.; Haddad, Stephen A. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2019
This article describes the process used to develop and assess an NSF-funded instructional innovation: an online collection (https://www.CAUSEweb.org/smiles/) of 28 interactive songs of high esthetic quality designed to span literature-based learning objectives of introductory statistics that develop statistical literacy and reasoning. The…
Descriptors: Singing, Introductory Courses, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction
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