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- Collection: Westminster Choir College of Rider University Electronic Theses and Capstones
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A Case Study of Middle School General Music Curriculum: A Critical Inquiry.
Over the last decade, there has been an influx of research and policies around critical pedagogy, care, SEL, and gender in K-12 settings and the music classroom. However, less explored are the ways in which music teachers use these components to…
American Protest Songs and Their Impact on Two American Social Movements
Protest songs have existed as a form of musical activity that was easily available to the general population in a variety of genres. While American protest songs were always an important part of American music history from the beginnings of the…
Developing Multidimensional Musical Understanding in the Choral Classroom.
Participation in performing ensembles is still a predominant music education path for many students, even with the variety of modernized music class offerings in the twenty-first century. Since many students will spend the majority of their music…
Differentiated Instruction in the Music Classroom: A Case Study of Three Children With Communication Impairment.
Increasingly in classrooms, there are more academically diverse students with different learning needs, including children with disabilities (Tomlinson, 2005). This multiple case study examined the experiences of three fourth-grade children with…
FOUNDATIONS OF CHORAL PEDAGOGY IN LUTHERAN SCHOOLS:
COMMON THREADS BETWEEN REFORMATION GERMANY AND THE
LUTHERAN CHURCH—MISSOURI SYNOD
The Lutheran church has been a driving force in the development of both choral
music and education in the West. The choral music of the Lutheran church remains a
staple contribution to the repertoire of Western classical music, and the…
music and education in the West. The choral music of the Lutheran church remains a
staple contribution to the repertoire of Western classical music, and the…
Handbells as a Method for Contemporary Music Education: A Capstone Project.
The purpose of this study was to create a concise learning pattern sequence for teaching handbells using selected repertoire from the analysis of secular handbell music offerings suitable for teaching basic handbell techniques. The researcher…
Informal Music Learning Theory and it's Reflection in the Virtual Voice Studio.
One-on-one studio instruction is a long-standing and treasured form of formal education in the music making community (Brook et al., 2017). While formal education has been the default method of studio music instruction for many years, as a private…
Kodály Music Educations Approaches Towards Online Learning in the Elementary Music Classroom: A Case Study.
The sudden shift to an online learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in multiple occurrences worldwide. The pandemic also abruptly shifted educational practices from in-person to various virtual contexts, including synchronous,…
Music With Movement: Integrating Dance in the Music Classroom.
In this capstone I present a unit plan around a traditional Estonian polka dance. The unit plan aims at integrating dance in the music classroom by incorporating elements of Dalcroze Eurythmics as a way to overcome the disembodiment of music dominant…