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Music teachers usually encourage their students to examine contemporary songs either through biographical studies of artists and composers or from particular stylistic perspectives. It is not uncommon for instructors to link these two elements: Louis Armstrong with jazz, B.B.King with blues, James Brown with soul sounds, and Johnny Cash with country music. The following bibliographic resource guide suggests that the investigation of record labels can broaden student understanding of the modern music industry by integrating artist/genre information with specific city images (Memphis), special studio bands (Booker T. and the M.G.'s), successful record company moguls (Berry Gordy), and efforts by performers like The Beatles to secure artistic independence (Apple). Business teachers, social studies instructors, and popular culture researchers can stimulate innovative and integrated learning opportunities by focusing on ... Alligator, Apple, Atlantic, Motown, Stax, and Sun., Record labels represent specific segments of larger music industry interests. For example, Tamla and Gordy were small units of the Motown Recording Corporation empire during the 1960s. The managerial or [...]

The need for a new approach to studio instruction becomes evident when the current state of the profession and the effects of typical teaching methods are considered. In a profession [...]

A variety of theoretical and analytical approaches are employed to analyze 'Water and Clouds over Xiao Xiang'. Some of the salient structural features of Xiao Xiang are emphasized and how they interact, creating elegant unities and separations is discussed.

The teacher wondered ... what the problem was. (1) Her students had been having such difficulties with finding research materials for their papers. Perhaps it was the assignments themselves, which [...]

I have had the privilege of working with bibliographic instruction and information literacy at St. Olaf College for more than twenty years. (1) As a liberal arts college, our institution [...]

This study is a description of the error correction process in 40 instrumental music rehearsals taught by 10 teachers, each of whom was observed conducting 4 consecutive rehearsals. A total [...]

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of changing the magnitude of rubato in a musical performance on the perceived musicianship inherent in a music performance. Subjects [...]

Two independent groups, one consisting of college-level studio music teachers (n = 127) and the other of music majors (n = 134), completed a written survey containing 10 questions about [...]

The purpose of this study was to examine use of class time in elementary general music classes in relation to the nine voluntary National Standards for Music Education. Elementary music [...]

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects that modeling, self-evaluation, and self-listening have on junior high school instrumentalists' music performance and attitude about practice. The pretest/posttest 2 [...]

This study is an analysis of samples of one year's vocal productions of 92 children between birth and age 7 in the Nharira Communal Lands of Zimbabwe to determine at [...]

The author examines the music exercises required of 18th-century England's Oxford University students in order to receive a bachelor or doctorate degree in music. In addition to exploring the exercises in music composition, vocal writing, and instrumentation, the article analyzes other traditions and policies of the Oxford music department.

This investigation compared three methods of teaching keyboard sight-reading to undergraduate music majors. Sixty-nine students enrolled in six piano classes were randomly divided among three conditions: (1) error-detection practice plus [...]

Chihara Yoshio is one of the few elementary school teachers who promotes Japanese music as part of the public school curriculum. Traditional music, in this view, becomes a way to evaluate cultural identity ideals.

A fresh approach to musicology or the study of music is to regard it as material social practice which looks at a particular piece of music as a socially based art form that is a product of a particular culture and includes its production such as those of manuscripts and the instruments to perform it. This approach, which is imbued with cultural materialism, is distinguished from the traditional one which elevates music to a timeless sphere and judges it according to certain universal ideals independent of the politics and culture of its time.

The Marilyn Horne Foundation and Juilliard School jointly offered a music master class program to promote the solo vocal recital. Marilyn Horne participated in some of the classes, with mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig also presenting songs and participating in panel discussions. Both women were relaxed in addressing the crowds and instructed the students in vocal techniques. Horne and Ludwig were inspirational and injected new life into tired phrases.

Music teaching entails dynamism and complexity due to its youngness compared to other liberal arts disciplines. The craft is still susceptible to the many changes brought about by time, controversy, doubt, and practices, among others.

Despite more than three decades of generous private and government support for the arts, arts education in the United States can boast of only meager results. In this time of [...]