The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning
The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning

Author: Music Educators National Conference (U.S.)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-04-18

Total Pages: 1249

ISBN-13: 0195138848

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Featuring chapters by the world's foremost scholars in music education and cognition, this handbook is a convenient collection of current research on music teaching and learning. This comprehensive work includes sections on arts advocacy, music and medicine, teacher education, and studio instruction, among other subjects, making it an essential reference for music education programs. The original Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, published in 1992 with the sponsorship of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), was hailed as "a welcome addition to the literature on music education because it serves to provide definition and unity to a broad and complex field" (Choice). This new companion volume, again with the sponsorship of MENC, explores the significant changes in music and arts education that have taken place in the last decade. Notably, several chapters now incorporate insights from other fields to shed light on multi-cultural music education, gender issues in music education, and non-musical outcomes of music education. Other chapters offer practical information on maintaining musicians' health, training music teachers, and evaluating music education programs. Philosophical issues, such as musical cognition, the philosophy of research theory, curriculum, and educating musically, are also explored in relationship to policy issues. In addition to surveying the literature, each chapter considers the significance of the research and provides suggestions for future study.Covering a broad range of topics and addressing the issues of music education at all age levels, from early childhood to motivation and self-regulation, this handbook is an invaluable resource for music teachers, researchers, and scholars.

Musical Imaginations
Musical Imaginations

Author: David Hargreaves

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0199568081

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Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour. This book is a wide ranging, multidisciplinary review of the latest theory and research on musical creativity, performance and perception by some of the most eminent scholars in their respective disciplines.

Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music
Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music

Author: W. K. McNeil

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1135377073

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The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music is the first comprehensive reference to cover this important American musical form. Coverage includes all aspects of both African-American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends.

Improvising
Improvising

Author: Gerre Hancock

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780193858817

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Gerre Hancock has long been renowned for his extraordinary improvisations, and has for many years taught the art of improvisation at classes and workshops across the United States. Now he has codified and organized his teaching into a book which carries the organist from the scale through thefugue, covering on the way interludes, hymns, hymn preludes, sonata form, canon, and more. Written in an informal style and illustrated with musical examples and exercises, this book opens wide the door to musical and technical skill.

Church and Worship Music in the United States
Church and Worship Music in the United States

Author: James Michael Floyd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1317270355

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This fully updated second edition is a selective annotated bibliography of all relevant published resources relating to church and worship music in the United States. Over the past decade, there has been a growth of literature covering everything from traditional subject matter such as the organ works of J.S. Bach to newer areas of inquiry including folk hymnology, women and African-American composers, music as a spiritual healer, to the music of Mormon, Shaker, Moravian, and other smaller sects. With multiple indices, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field.

How to Play Hymns and Gospel Songs in Evangelistic Style
How to Play Hymns and Gospel Songs in Evangelistic Style

Author: David Carr Glover

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1999-12-11

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1457464438

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How to Play Hymns and Gospel Songs in Evangelistic Styles, is presented in three sections. The first section presents how to play hymns in Basic Chorale Style. The second section presents how to play hymns in Full Chorale and Accompaniment Styles. The third section is a collection of well-loved standard Gospel hymns, already arranged for you, using the three Styles taught in sections one and two.

Moravian Soundscapes
Moravian Soundscapes

Author: Sarah Justina Eyerly

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0253047730

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In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and cultural borderland, sound mattered. People listened carefully to each other and the world around them. In Moravian communities, cultures of hearing and listening encompassed and also superseded musical traditions such as song and hymnody. Complex biophonic, geophonic, and anthrophonic acoustic environments—or soundscapes—characterized daily life in Moravian settlements such as Bethlehem, Nain, Gnadenhütten, and Friedenshütten. Through detailed analyses and historically informed recreations of Moravian communal, environmental, and religious soundscapes and their attendant hymn traditions, Moravian Soundscapes explores how sounds—musical and nonmusical, human and nonhuman—shaped the Moravians' religious culture. Combined with access to an interactive website that immerses the reader in mid-18th century Pennsylvania, and framed with an autobiographical narrative, Moravian Soundscapes recovers the roles of sound and music in Moravian communities and provides a road map for similar studies of other places and religious traditions in the future.