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• Toddler music: a socio-cultural/historical examination of the musical development of two-year-olds and their carers in a child development laboratory classroom 

  Wachtel, Donald (2015-01-21)

  The purpose of this study was to describe the music and musical practices two-year-olds, their caregivers, and I chose to purposefully engage in together, how this engagement reflected what was valued in various communities ...

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• Jazz solo transcriptions as technical and pedagogical solutions for undergraduate jazz saxophonists 

  Acevedo, Andre (2015-01-21)

  The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the development of saxophone technique in the jazz idiom in comparison to that in the classical idiom. Five leading jazz pedagogues were interviewed for their perspective ...

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• Demographic profile and survey of alternatively certified Texas music educators: experiences, perceptions, and policy implications 

  Dye, Christopher (2015-01-21)

  This study compiled a demographic profile of individuals who completed alternative route certification (ARC) programs in music education in Texas during the 2002-2012 school years (N = 1200). Additionally, a survey was ...

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• Musical Ambiguity in Analysis and Composition: Problems of Pattern, Value, Form, and Structure 

  Krause, Drew Stafford (1993)

  This paper investigates different facets of musical ambiguity, defined as the ability of a musical work or passage to be understood in more than one sense. Chapter One introduces a model for analytical use and applies this ...

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• The Effect of Voice Lessons on the Clinical and Perceptual Skills of Graduate Students in Speech and Hearing Science 

  DeBoer, Katharine Lynn (1993)

  Two groups of ten speech-language pathology graduate students were each given a half semester of singing lessons to determine whether voice lessons can have effect on their clinical and perceptual skills. Pre-, mid-, and ...

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