Download or read book The Developments and Implementation of a Beginning Improvisation Curriculum for Freshman Collegiate Group Piano Classes written by Cynthia Burch Ramsey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research was to investigate improvisation in the collegiate group piano class. The problems of this study were to 1) examine selected group piano textbooks to determine if improvisation examples have been included; 2) develop a one semester, beginning improvisation curriculum for a freshman collegiate group piano class; 3) identify and compare student learning reactions to improvisation integration in the group piano curriculum; 4) compare improvisation achievement of freshman college group piano students receiving traditional and researcher designed curriculum; and 5) to examine the predictive validity of the Advanced Measures of Music Audiation (AMMA) regarding the acquisition of keyboard improvisation skills and keyboard improvisation achievement. Group piano instructors wishing to incorporate improvisation in their classes may want to examine textbooks by Heerema, Hilley and Olson, Mach, and Lancaster and Renfrow. The researcher generated curriculum was well received and student perceptions (regardless of treatment) of improvisation were positive as the majority of students revealed that their successful keyboard improvisations surprised them. Pretest/Posttest findings suggest that the participants in this study (n = 14) increased their improvisation achievement skills 77 points from a pretest mean of 29 (sd = 38.59) to a Posttest mean of 106 (sd = 89.75). A two way, repeated measures (mixed design) ANOVA was calculated and no significant effect was found between the student’s percentile rank reported on the Total Test of the Advanced Measures of Music Audiation (AMMA) and the scores gained between the Pretest/Posttest administration of the Keyboard Improvisation Achievement Test (KIAT). The findings of this study suggest that instruction in improvisation is beneficial to students enrolled in freshmen collegiate group piano classes. Participants in this study reported that improvisation increased their concentration skills and though they were often anxious about performing in front of their peers, they enjoyed listening and learning from their classmates. Music educators are encouraged to include improvisation in their class teachings and the group piano class is an excellent venue to promote and develop this skill as it provides students an outlet to spontaneously express their musical thoughts.
Download or read book Improvisation in Collegiate Class Piano written by Jungeyun Grace Choi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With intent to improve pedagogy in collegiate class piano, the purpose of this research was to investigate an aural approach to improvisation in beginning class piano. Research questions were: (a) What is the improvisation achievement of beginning collegiate class piano students? (b) What is the relationship between beginning collegiate class piano students' music aptitude and music achievement? and (c) what are students' perceptions of improvisation in class piano pedagogy? Participants in this study were undergraduate class piano students enrolled in their first year of class piano. Prior to the study, students' stabilized music aptitude was measured with the Advanced Measures of Music Audiation (AMMA, Gordon, 1989). Each student participated in two classes each week for a period of 14 weeks. I taught classes using instructional materials based on Keyboard Musicianship: Piano for Adults (Lyke, Caramia, Alexander, Haydon, & CHioldi, 2014) and Developing Musicianship through Improvisation (DTMI; Azzara & Grunow, 2006, 2010a, 2010b). This study was integrated into the pre-existing, school-wide, semester-long curriculum. Each student completed a: (a) pre-study survey, (b) mid-study group interview, and (c) post-study individual interview. I video-recorded all performances and interviews. At the end of 14 weeks of instruction, each student: (a) sang the melody of "Happy Birthday," (b) improvised to "Happy Birthday" vocally, (c) played the melody of "Happy Birthday" in the right hand with appropriate accompaniment in the left hand, and (d) improvised to "Happy Birthday" in the right hand with appropriate accompaniment in the left hand. Students then repeated this procedure with an unfamiliar researcher-composed tune. Three independent judges, professional musicians with experience improvising, rated recordings of student performances using rating scales designed to measure tonal, rhythm, expressive, and improvisation skills. Quantitative results affirmed that an aural approach to improvisation in beginning collegiate class piano may have led to improvised music achievement. Qualitative results revealed that an aural approach to improvisation in beginning collegiate class piano enhanced participants' perspectives of undergraduate music curricula.
Download or read book Beginning Jazz Improvisation Instruction at the Collegiate Level written by David Earl Hart and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the intent of improving improvisation curriculum and instruction at the collegiate level, the purpose of this descriptive study was to describe improvisation achievement and personal perspectives of collegiate undergraduate non-jazz majors following 14 weeks of learning to improvise. Improvisation has not traditionally been part of core curricula in collegiate music education programs. Researchers have requested the need for inclusion of improvisation in collegiate curricula. With addition of Jazz Studies as a major for undergraduate and graduate study over the last 50 years, more curricula include beginning jazz improvisation courses for music majors who are not studying jazz. Many music education departments require an improvisation class for their majors. For many students, this is their first exposure to improvisation. The following research questions guided this study: 1. What are performance and improvisation achievement levels for collegiate undergraduate students following 14 weeks of instruction using a sequential music curriculum designed for a beginning jazz improvisation class? 2. What are the relationships between music aptitude and (a) performance achievement, (b) improvisation achievement, (c) composite music achievement, and (d) singing achievement? and 3. How does improvisation instruction influence perceptions of learning by participants? Based on data gathered in this study, four conclusions are warranted (a) Collegiate non-jazz major students are capable of engaging in meaningful improvisations, (b) Learning to improvise has a positive effect on overall musicianship, (c) Improvisation and singing achievement are related to overall performance achievement, and (d) Rating scales used in this study are appropriate tools for measuring music achievement achievement and personal perspectives of collegiate undergraduate non-jazz majors following 14 weeks of learning to improvise.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting written by National Association of Schools of Music and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Group Piano written by Karen Ann Krieger and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piano/Keyboard Methods/Series
Download or read book Understanding the Classical Music Profession written by Dr Dawn Elizabeth Bennett and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Classical Music Profession is an essential resource for educators, practitioners and researchers who seek to understand the careers of classically-trained musicians, and the extent to which professional practice is reflected within existing classical performance-based music education and training. Taking Australia as a case-study, Dawn Bennett outlines how Australia is now a service economy, and an important component of service provision is in the culture and recreation industries. Despite this, employment in culture and recreation is poorly understood and a lack of cultural intelligence contributes to a less than satisfactory environment that inhibits the creative potential of cultural practitioners. Musicians in the twenty-first century require a broad and evolving base of skills and knowledge to sustain their careers as cultural practitioners. Bennett maintains that a musician cannot be simply defined as a performer, but that a musician is someone who works within the profession of music in one or more specialist fields. The perception of a musician as a multi-skilled professional working within a portfolio career has significant implications for policy, funding, education and training, and for practitioners and students seeking to achieve sustainable careers. This indispensable book provides a comprehensive analysis of life as a musician, from education and training to professional practice as well as revealing the structure of the Australian cultural industries. Although Australia is the focus of the book, the basis of the research originates from many different places and most of the issues discussed relate directly to other countries throughout the world.
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Download or read book Technique Development in Fourths for Jazz Improvisation written by Ramon Ricker and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1976 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anvendelse af kvart-intervaller i jazzimprovisation
Download or read book The Art of Partimento written by Giorgio Sanguinetti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with unprecedented swiftness and elegance using the partimento, an instructional tool derived from the basso continuo that encouraged improvisation as the path to musical fluency. Although the practice vanished in the early nineteenth century, its legacy lived on in the music of the next generation. In The Art of Partimento, performer and music-historian Giorgio Sanguinetti chronicles the history of this long-forgotten Neapolitan art. Sanguinetti has painstakingly reconstructed the oral tradition that accompanied these partimento manuscripts, now scattered throughout Europe. Beginning with the origins of the partimento in the circles of Corelli, Pasquini, and Alessandro Scarlatti in Rome and tracing it through the peak of the tradition in Naples, The Art of Partimento gives a glimpse into the daily life and work of an eighteenth century composer. The Art of the Partimento is also a complete practical handbook to reviving the tradition today. Step by step, Sanguinetti guides the aspiring composer through elementary realization to more advanced exercises in diminution, imitation, and motivic coherence. Based on the teachings of the original masters, Sanguinetti challenges the reader to become a part of history, providing a variety of original partimenti in a range of genres, forms, styles, and difficulty levels along the way and allowing the student to learn the art of the partimento for themselves at their own pace. As both history and practical guide, The Art of Partimento presents a new and innovative way of thinking about music theory. Sanguinetti's unique approach unites musicology and music theory with performance, which allows for a richer and deeper understanding than any one method alone, and offers students and scholars of composition and music theory the opportunity not only to understand the life of this fascinating tradition, but to participate in it as well.
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Download or read book Just Good Teaching written by Laura Sindberg and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2012 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student learning in school music ensembles is often focused on technical skill development. Give your students broader experience involving multiple music learnings, technical proficiency, cognition, and personal meaning. The Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model will help you plan instruction for school ensembles that promotes a holistic form of music learning and will allow you to use your creativity, passion, and vision. With model teaching plans and questions for discussion, this book can give you richer, more meaningful challenges and help you provide your students with deeper musical experiences. Sindberg combines the theoretical foundations of CMP with practical applications in a book that's useful for practicing teacher-conductors, scholars, and teacher educators alike.
Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1973- include the following subject areas: Biological sciences, Agriculture, Chemistry, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Engineering, Mathematics and statistics, Earth sciences, Physics, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law & political science, Business & economics, Geography & regional planning, Language & literature, Fine arts, Library & information science, Mass communications, Music, Philosophy and Religion.
Download or read book Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching written by R. Keith Sawyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an increasing emphasis on creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century, teachers need to be creative professionals just as students must learn to be creative. And yet, schools are institutions with many important structures and guidelines that teachers must follow. Effective creative teaching strikes a delicate balance between structure and improvisation. The authors draw on studies of jazz, theater improvisation and dance improvisation to demonstrate that the most creative performers work within similar structures and guidelines. By looking to these creative genres, the book provides practical advice for teachers who wish to become more creative professionals.
Download or read book Keyboard Harmony and Improvisation written by Maurice Lieberman and published by New York : W.W. Norton. This book was released on 1957 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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