Evaluating Music Performance: Politics, Pitfalls, and Successful Practices

01 October 2009 rubrics and forms: http://www.bands.org/public/resourceroom/adjudication (site requires user login). authors: Nancy H. Barry author_ids: 439 authors: Nancy H. Barry author_ids: 439

Approaching Musical Classicism—Understanding Styles and Style Change in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music

01 October 1980 I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...

Musicians as Authors: Teaching the Art of Writing Program Notes

01 October 2004 Ensemble directors devote enormous attention to programming concerts.1 When selecting pieces and deciding on program order, consideration is given to musical and textual themes, cultural and historical origins, tempos, keys, forms, durations, and many...

College Applied Faculty: The Disjunction of Performer, Teacher, and Educator

01 October 2009 College applied studio teaching has been examined, evaluated, and criticized in recent decades, but it has remained in place, unchanged in most ways due to the inherent “conserving” nature of the music conservatory, or to what Schlueter refers to as an...

Envisioning a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for the Music Discipline

01 October 2003 Music Practice, ed. Harald Jorgensen and Andreas C. Lehmann (Oslo: The Norwegian State Academy of Music, 1997); and Nancy H. Barry and Susan Hallam, "Practice," in The Science and Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and...