In this study, the authors investigated effects of aural model-supported rehearsal preparation on selected behavioral and evaluative elements of novice teachers' rehearsals. Sixteen preservice music teachers conducted high school bands in four 15-minute rehearsals (two rehearsals on two different pieces). To prepare for their rehearsals on one…

The aim of this paper is to define music appraisal and to explore the role that talk plays in the process of helping pupils in secondary school music lessons to develop their appraisal skills. This paper offers a definition of appraisal, and traces its developing role in the National Curriculum in England since the early 1990s. The role of…

This study draws on ethnographic data from a year-long multimodal media production (MMP) course and the experience of an African American female adolescent who used the production of multimodal Hip Hop texts to express her creativity and growing socially conscious view of the world. The study demonstrates how students made meaning multimodally and…

The simultaneous sound of several voices or instruments requires proper tuning to achieve consonance for certain intervals and chords. Most instruments allow enough frequency variation to enable pure tuning while being played. Keyboard instruments such as organ and piano have given frequencies for individual notes and the tuning must be based on a…

Article described the expression of ideas in music and the part that literature played as a motivation for those ideas. (RK)

Non-annotated discography that omits single songs from the Broadway shows and arrangements for band, piano, and the like. (CH)

The list of operas contained in this article continues a series of selected works of American music--for chorus, for band, for orchestra, for the elementary school, and opera--prepared by the MENC Bicentennial Commission. (Editor/RK)

Few resources in music education are more traditional than the round. Describes numerous uses of rounds, in a variety of classes. (Editor)

Speech made before a group of students on the subject of creativity based on author's own experiences as an entertainer, poet, songwriter. (CB)

Author lists exercises that explain the musical meaning of ragtime. (RK)

A biographical sketch of Gottschalk, a pianist and "the first american composer to use the folk idiom and rhythm of this hemisphere in serious composition. (Author/JG)

The author briefly describes the making and changing of the music art form. (JG)