Carolyn Wilson Digital Collections (Lipscomb Univ.)
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Teaching Elementary Aural Skills - How Current Brain Research May Help
Get PDFPaula Telesco interweaves the current state of aural skills teaching with cognitive studies, shedding new light on how we approach teaching skills. All music departments share at least one common goal: to cultivate the musicianship of all their students, enabling each to be a better musician than he or she was upon entering the program. In a general sense, that means increasing the literacy and fluency of all music students. It may, therefore, behoove us to revisit and reevaluate what most of us would probably agree is a standard Aural Skills curriculum to determine whether the model is still as universally valid as it once was, and if not, to consider plausible alternatives
Why is Improvisation So Difficult?
Get PDFThis article demonstrates that students\u27 abilities and attitudes, fluency in basic musical skills, knowledge of music history and analysis, and personal taste all figure and inform one another in the art of improvisation, and may be elegantly integrated in one\u27s teaching approach
Teaching Baroque Counterpoint Through Improvisation - An Introductory Curriculum in Stylistic Fluency
Get PDFCallahan employs carefully-crafted stages, the first accessible even to students with only one or two years of piano study, that lead to high-level activities challenging and enriching to both the advanced student and the teacher
Noteflight as a Web 2.0 Tool for Music Theory Pedagogy
Get PDFIn this review-article, Brendan McConville presents a detailed overview of the new interactive music notation software package, Noteflight. McConville elegantly details the program\u27s powerful pedagogical potential, addressing such topics as its widespread applicability to a variety of curricular settings, technical and interactive aspects of the program, the practical implications of pricing, institutional requirements and the logistics of implementation
Contemporary Musicianship Test 4 - Music Industry
Get PDFThis is a test written for students enrolled in a music industry theory course