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First Instruments

Teaching Music Through Harmony Signing

By: Nicholas Bannan

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First Instruments

Teaching Music Through Harmony Signing

By: Nicholas Bannan

Written for music educators from K - 5 onwards, First Instruments is a practical guide to teaching musical ideas through the first instruments we develop in early childhood, laying the foundation for how the collective creativity the book presents can sustain a lifelong commitment to music-making: voice and hand gestures. Founded on the belief that all children are musical, the book gives music teachers the necessary tools to develop students' confident understanding of pitch relationships through improvisation and composition. Author Nicholas Bannan, a veteran pedagogue and children's choir director, accomplishes this in a classroom-tested system that combines Kod ly hand signs with extended use of physical motions that together result in deeply embodied musical knowledge. By participating in the book's many group exercises, students develop this knowledge that ultimately paves the way for acquisition and functional working knowledge of harmony that tends to elude most theory students. As Bannan shows, all effective music teaching needs to involve singing as the portal to a secure and transferable response to pitch. First Instruments encourages educators to draw on games, tasks, and activities in relation to their own curriculum planning. Marrying the development of fluent singing abilities with harmonic understandings, this approach supports musical creativity that is not dominated by the conventional features of a particular genre or style, but instead liberates the musical imagination and enables the exploration of musical styles from throughout history and all over the world.

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Teaching Music Through Harmony Signing

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Proceedings of the 2015 WA Chapter MSA Symposium on Music Performance and Analysis

By: Western Australian Chapter, Musicological Society of Australia,Paul Hopwood,Krista Low,Adrian Yeo,Alix Hamilton,Lindsay Vickery,Stuart James,Carol Williams,Stewart Smith,Robin Ryan,Emma Jayakumar,Cat Hope,Lucas O'Brien

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Proceedings of the 2015 WA Chapter MSA Symposium on Music Performance and Analysis

This publication, entitled Proceedings of the 2015 WA Chapter MSA Symposium on Music Performance and Analysis, is a double-blind peer-reviewed conference proceedings published by the Western Australian Chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia, in conjunction with the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, edited by Jonathan Paget, Victoria Rogers, and Nicholas Bannan. The original symposium was held at the University of Western Australia, School of Music, on 12 December 2015. With the advent of performer-scholars within Australian Universities, the intersections between analytical knowledge and performance are constantly being re-evaluated and reinvented. This collection of papers presents several strands of analytical discourse, including: (1) the analysis of music recordings, particularly in terms of historical performance practices; (2) reinventions of the 'page-to-stage' paradigm, employing new analytical methods; (3) analytical knowledge applied to pedagogy, particularly concerning improvisation; and (4) so-called 'practice-led' research.Paper contributions are as follows: Jonathan Paget, "Emerging Discourses of Analysis and Music Performance (Editorial);" Paul Hopwood, "Music Analysis and the Drastic Challenge;" Krista Low, "Changing Aesthetics and Cello Performance 1920-1960;" Adrian Yeo and Jonathan Paget, "A Longitudinal Study of Performance Practices in Recordings of Bach's Violin Sonata BWV1003;" Alix Hamilton, "A Portal into the Past: Lionel Tertis's Recording of the Arnold Bax Viola Sonata;" Lindsay Vickery and Stuart James, "The Enduring Temporal Mystery of Ornette Coleman's Lonley Woman;" Carol Willliams, "The Tonary as Analytic Guidebook for the Performance of Chant;" Stewart Smith, "From Matrix to Model: Conceptualising Improvised Counterpoitn at the Organ;" Robin Ryan, "Beyond the Buzzword: Eco-Improvisatory Music in Theory and Application;" Nicholas Bannan, "Darwin, Fux, and Schenker in the Primary Classroom;" Jonathan Paget, "Recent Sonata Theory and the Performance of Early Nineteenth-Century Guitar Sonatas;" Emma Jayakumar, "Facilitating Creative Synergy: An Analytical Approach to the Operatic Creative Process;" Cat Hope, "Reading Free Music: Adapting Percy Grainger's Free Music Scores for Live Performance;" Otakar Sevčík's Op. 18 as a Prescribed Method for Attaining Expert Performance.

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The Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle: Dealing with National Affairs, 1807-1844

By: Nicholas Biddle,Reginald Charles McGrane

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The Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle: Dealing with National Affairs, 1807-1844

By: Nicholas Biddle,Reginald Charles McGrane

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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