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"In this timeless eight-part series, seasoned professionals who have played with premier recording artists share their deep knowledge of music in a friendly and unselfconscious manner as they explain and demonstrate the essentials of playing a variety of string, wind, and percussion instruments."--Container.
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"Insights into Music Composition is a guide and source of inspiration for beginning students of music composition. Drawing on perspectives from a range of experienced composers, the book introduces readers to the compositional process, emphasizing how to think about creating a piece of music from beginning to end by providing not only a survey of methods but an understanding of the overarching context for composition. The authors present student composers...
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What is music education, and what ought it to be? By challenging narrow and inadequate conceptions of the field, Estelle Jorgensen raises the possibility of alternative views that can dignify the teacher's task, enrich and enliven the profession, and validate an exciting range of additional ways in which music education can be undertaken in the contemporary world.
8) Woodwind anthology: a compendium of articles from the Instrumentalist on the woodwind instruments
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General articles. In addition to practical information on woodwind playing and teaching techniques, music literature is listed and discussed. and more.
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The Art of Teaching Music takes up important aspects of the art of music teaching ranging from organization to serving as conductor to dealing with the disconnect between the ideal of university teaching and the reality in the classroom. Writing for both established teachers and instructors on the rise, Estelle R. Jorgensen opens a conversation about the life and work of the music teacher. The author regards music teaching as interrelated with the...
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"This introduction to the history and philosophy of music education provides an overview that is relevant for both students and working educators. Concentrating on the period from the 1950s to the present, Michael Mark describes and interprets the radical changes that have shaped current music education. Contemporary Music Education contains detailed discussion of practical and philosophical foundations, including the influence of the Contemporary...
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Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions. Yet philosophy, often considered abstract and irrelevant, is often absent from the daily life of music instructors. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D. Bowman and Ana Lucía Frega have drawn together a variety of philosophical perspectives from the profession's most exciting scholars. Rather than...
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How the adult can help the young child to learn the tonal and rhythmic language of music is the subject of this book. Music and young children fit as well with each other as the completed pieces of a preschool puzzle. This book provides all adults who work with children, from infancy to age 5, with the basic awareness of the principles and practices of educating the young through music. The approaches suggested in the text have been carefully tested...
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This is the first book to focus on the role of education in relation to music and gender. Invoking a concept of musical patriarchy and a theory of the social construction of musical meaning, the author shows how women's musical practices and gendered musical meanings have been reproduced, hand in hand, through history. Covering a wide range of music, including classical, jazz and popular styles, the author uses ethnographic methods to convey the everyday...
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... With sections devoted to theory, as well as practical strategies and applications for the classroom ... a primer on how the body hears music to music's impact on stress level, perceptual-motor skills, memory, and emotional intelligence ... Included are tips for choosing music and the various benefits of various music types -- cf. back cover.
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