Download or read book Perceptions of Jazz Improvisation Among Pennsylvania Music Educators written by Jason Robert Rummel and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Jazz education has been a part of school music programs in the United States in both extracurricular and curricular settings since the 1920's. An enormous growth in the popularity of stage bands and jazz ensembles was experienced between the 1940's and 1980's resulting in a vibrant, widespread acceptance of jazz in the music curriculum (Luty, 1982; Suber, 1976; Wheaton, 1976). School music programs in the state of Pennsylvania experienced this growth. Despite the frequent inclusion of jazz in the public schools, jazz courses, particularly jazz improvisation courses, are conspicuously absent from the music education curricula of most Pennsylvania colleges and universities that offer music education certification. The purpose of this study is: 1) to test for correlations between jazz improvisation experience and perceptions of jazz improvisation activities; 2) to compare data regarding perceptions of jazz improvisation activities between various subgroups identified by the collection of categorical data, and; 3) to explore meaning and provide explanations for the results of the comparisons and correlations. Recommendations were made concerning the need for jazz courses, particularly improvisation, to be adopted into Pennsylvania music teacher preparation curricula. One thousand two hundred seventy four active Pennsylvania music educators responded to a 51 item, researcher designed questionnaire used to ascertain attitudes, levels of training, willingness to participate in jazz improvisation activities, and current practices, if any. A four-way MANOVA revealed statistically significant differences when comparing the independent variables type of primary instrument ( p =.011) and total experience ( p =.000) with the dependent variables regarding participants attitudes, willingness to participate in jazz improvisation activities, experience, and current practices. Self-directed study was found to be the primary source of jazz improvisation experience among participants in the study. Additional data were gathered through qualitative techniques to understand more closely the situations and attitudes of particular cases in the field. Eight cases were chosen based on results of the quantitative survey and represented subgroups used in quantitative statistics. Results of the qualitative data supported and clarified the quantitative results that selection of a typically jazz related instrument resulted in more opportunities for improvisation training which in turn translated to more frequent participation in jazz improvisation activities. Seven of the eight participants felt that jazz improvisation training should be required at the undergraduate level while all participants suggested ways that jazz improvisation training could be integrated into undergraduate curricula.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education written by Colleen M. Conway and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education is a resource for music education researchers, music education graduate students, and P-16 music teachers. Qualitative research has become an increasingly popular research approach in music education in the last 20 years and until now there has been no source that clarifies terms, challenges, and issues in qualitative research for music education. This Handbook provides that clarification and presents model qualitative studies within the various music education disciplines. The first section of the text defines qualitative research, provides a history of qualitative research in music education, clarifies epistemological foundations and theoretical frameworks and addresses quality in qualitative research. The approaches of case study, ethnography, phenomenology, narrative, and practitioner inquiry are addressed in the second section. Part III examines data collection and analysis with regard to observations, interviews, documents and multi-media data. Within the 11 chapters in the fourth part of the book authors provide syntheses of qualitative research within various areas of music education (i.e., early childhood, strings, and teacher education). The final part of the book examines technology, rigor, ethics, and the future of qualitative research.
Download or read book Models of Qualitative Research written by Colleen M. Conway and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music education researchers who are looking to understand the "dim secrets that startle our wonder" look to qualitative research. Approaches to Qualitative Research: An Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education is a resource for music education researchers, music education graduate students, and P-16 music teachers. I begin this Preface by locating qualitative research in music education within the larger field of qualitative research in social sciences and humanities research, within qualitative research in education, and within music education research in general"--
Download or read book Approaches to Qualitative Research written by Colleen Conway and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music education researchers who are looking to understand the "dim secrets that startle our wonder" look to qualitative research. Approaches to Qualitative Research: An Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education is a resource for music education researchers, music education graduate students, and P-16 music teachers. I begin this Preface by locating qualitative research in music education within the larger field of qualitative research in social sciences and humanities research, within qualitative research in education, and within music education research in general"--
Download or read book Pluralism in American Music Education Research written by Diana R. Dansereau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines pluralism in light of recent music education research history and pluralistic approaches in practice. Pluralistic research holds the potential to blend frameworks, foundations, methods, and analysis protocols, and leads to a sophisticated understanding of music teaching and learning. This blending could take place in a range of contexts that may span an individual study to a lifelong research agenda. Additionally, pluralistic ideals would guide the addressing of questions as a community. The volume also illuminates the work of innovative music education researchers who are constructing pluralistic research studies and agendas, and advocate for the music education profession to embrace such an approach in order to advance shared research goals. The ramifications of this transformation in music education research are a subject of discussion, including the implications for researcher education and the challenges inherent in conducting and disseminating such research.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music Composition Pedagogy written by Michele Kaschub and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Music Composition Pedagogy presents an illuminating collection of philosophy, research, applied practice, and international perspectives to highlight the practices of teaching and learning in the field of music composition. The Handbook offers various strategies and approaches in composition for teachers, music teacher educators, and students of music education.
Download or read book The Psychology of Music written by Diana Deutsch and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On interpreting musical phenomena in terms of mental function
Download or read book Assessment of Jazz Improvisation Performance by Public School Teachers Pre Service Teachers and Jazz Performers written by Colton Dietz and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature in jazz improvisation pedagogy suggests public school music teachers generally think that jazz improvisation is valuable and should be taught in public schools. However, music teacher preparation curricula often do not require participation in courses on jazz or jazz pedagogy. Therefore, music teachers often feel unprepared to teach the skill (Bernhard, 2013; Jones, 2005; Rummel, 2010; Shevock, Stringham, Thornton, 2015; Treinen 2011; Ward-Steinman 2007; West, 2014). There are resources for jazz teaching available, although little research regarding their content or use. Considering music educators' lack of undergraduate preparation in jazz improvisation pedagogy, they will likely consult jazz ensemble method books to aid in instruction (Watson, 2017). Research has identified five class jazz instruction method books that are all in print, for a heterogenous ensemble, and for students with limited background to jazz, although they consist of an overall mean of 3% of its content devoted to jazz improvisation (Watson, 2017). Literature on jazz improvisation assessment suggests effective assessments of jazz improvisation should be measured through achievement in several musical categories. However, among the studies there is variability in what those categories should be (Moore, 2016; Smith, 2009). Therefore, research is lacking regarding how teachers assess a jazz improvisation. This investigation examined how pre-service music teachers, practicing public school jazz educators, and professional jazz musicians assess jazz improvisation without the use of a rubric, thus providing insight as to what draws the focus of the participants. To collect data for the research, nine participants (three third or fourth year undergraduate pre-service music teachers, three practicing school jazz educators, and three professional jazz musicians) assessed two jazz improvisations in narrative form without the use of a rubric. Jazz improvisations were recorded by high school students who participate in their high school jazz band and have been playing their instrument for at least two years. Results were analyzed to identify what musical elements participants assess in a jazz improvisation. Results were additionally analyzed to identify to what extent the participant responses of a musical element agreed or disagreed. Musical elements identified were compared to the range of effective jazz improvisation assessment categories outlined in the literature. The data suggested pre-service teachers provide the most consistent analysis of musical elements. All practicing music teachers did not fully agree on any musical elements assessed. Professional jazz musicians did not fully disagree with each other on any musical elements. The responses in order from most to least specific assessment of musical elements are as follows: professional jazz musicians, practicing music educators, pre-service music teachers. The data suggests pre-service music teachers and practicing music teachers have suboptimal ability to assess chord tones and chord-scale relationships in a jazz improvisation in comparison to professional jazz musicians.
Download or read book Improvisation and Music Education written by Ajay Heble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers compelling new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy. Bringing together contributions from leading musicians, scholars, and teachers from around the world, the volume articulates how improvisation can breathe new life into old curricula; how it can help teachers and students to communicate more effectively; how it can break down damaging ideological boundaries between classrooms and communities; and how it can help students become more thoughtful, engaged, and activist global citizens. In the last two decades, a growing number of music educators, music education researchers, musicologists, cultural theorists, creative practitioners, and ethnomusicologists have suggested that a greater emphasis on improvisation in music performance, history, and theory classes offers enormous potential for pedagogical enrichment. This book will help educators realize that potential by exploring improvisation along a variety of trajectories. Essays offer readers both theoretical explorations of improvisation and music education from a wide array of vantage points, and practical explanations of how the theory can be implemented in real situations in communities and classrooms. It will therefore be of interest to teachers and students in numerous modes of pedagogy and fields of study, as well as students and faculty in the academic fields of music education, jazz studies, ethnomusicology, musicology, cultural studies, and popular culture studies.
Download or read book Musical Creativity written by Irène Deliège and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection initiates a resolutely interdisciplinary research dynamic specifically concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most challenging issues currently facing scientific psychology and its study has been relatively rare in the cognitive sciences, especially in artificial intelligence. This book will address the need for a coherent and thorough exploration. Musical Creativity: Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice comprises seven sections, each viewing musical creativity from a different scientific vantage point, from the philosophy of computer modelling, through music education, interpretation, neuroscience, and music therapy, to experimental psychology. Each section contains discussions by eminent international specialists of the issues raised, and the book concludes with a postlude discussing how we can understand creativity in the work of eminent composer, Jonathan Harvey. This unique volume presents an up-to-date snapshot of the scientific study of musical creativity, in conjunction with ESCOM (the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music). Describing many of the different aspects of musical creativity and their study, it will form a useful springboard for further such study in future years, and will be of interest to academics and practitioners in music, psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and other fields concerning the study of human cognition in this most human of behaviours.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology written by Susan Hallam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This edition] updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of the 11 sections is edited by an internationally recognised authority in the area"--Jacket.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education written by David J. Elliott and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education offers global, comprehensive, and critical perspectives on a wide range of conceptual and practical issues in music education assessment, evaluation, and feedback as these apply to various forms of music education within schools and communities. The central aims of this Handbook focus on broadening and deepening readers' understandings of and critical thinking about the problems, opportunities, spaces and places, concepts, and practical strategies that music educators and community music facilitators employ, develop, and deploy to improve various aspects of music teaching and learning around the world.
Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology written by Susan Hallam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology' is the definitive, comprehensive, and authoritative text on this burgeoning field. With contributions from over 50 experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled. It will be an essential resource for students and researchers in psychology.
Download or read book Teaching Improv in Your Jazz Ensemble written by Zachary B. Poulter and published by R & L Education. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MENC: The National Association for Music Education
Download or read book Improvising Sabor written by Sue Miller and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as José Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigón dazzled the Palladium ballroom and other Latin music venues in those crucible years. Author Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute style in light of its transformations in the US after the 1959 revolution and within the vibrant context of 1960s New York. While much about Latin jazz and salsa has been written, this book focuses on the relatively unexplored New York charangas that were performing during the chachachá and pachanga craze of the early sixties. Indeed, many accounts cut straight from the 1950s and the mambo to the bugalú’s development in the late 1960s with little mention of the chachachá and pachanga’s popularity in the mid-twentieth century. Improvising Sabor addresses not only this lost and ignored history, but contends with issues of race, class, and identity while evaluating differences in style between players from prerevolution Cuban charangas and those of 1960s New York. Through comprehensive explorations and transcriptions of numerous musical examples as well as interviews with and commentary from Latin musicians, Improvising Sabor highlights a specific sabor that is rooted in both Cuban dance music forms and the rich performance culture of Latin New York. The distinctive styles generated by these musicians sparked compelling points of departure and influence.
Download or read book Jazz Improv written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvisation Creativity and Consciousness written by Edward W. Sarath and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and practical, the book uses the emergent worldview known as Integral Theory to discuss the consciousness at the heart of jazz and the new models and perspectives it offers. On a more personal level, the author provides examples of his own involvement in educational reform. His design of the first curriculum at a mainstream educational institution to incorporate a significant meditation and consciousness studies component grounds a radical new vision.
