In the suburbs of Pittsburgh, amidst former steel factories, grocery stores, hospitals, and country clubs, on a hillside overlooking Interstate 376 sits an impressive display of ancient Indian architecture: the Sri Venkateswara (SV) Temple, the oldest Hindu Temple constructed in the Penn Hills section of Pittsburgh in 1976. Although living on the opposite side of the globe, diasporic Indians in Pi....
By Yuko Eguchi-Music-University of Pittsburgh-masters-2008-06-04
This data collection offers information on Americans' participation in the arts, including ballet, opera, plays, museums, and Concerts , during 1992. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and conducted by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, this survey was a sup....
By --Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive--2002-01-03
The beginning of teaching, when you start to form the future musician, is very important time from which further luck and failure depends. Although there are various circumstances in which child needs more learning motivation. Work theme – the role of ensemble playing by consolidating children’s music learning motivation. The aim of the work – to cognize the role of ensemble playing by conso....
By Rita Frendzelienė-Educology-Network
In this work are analyzed the problems of how music demands are revealed in pedagogical and psychological literature as well as the problem of genesis, motivation, the influence of valuable orientation to music demands and their adjustment. The problem of how music demands are classified, what musical needs are among students in different age groups and what influence education can have to satisfy....
By Rima Mingailienė-Educology-Network
This study focuses on how volunteer networks surrounding sports and musical activities in two neighbouring municipalities in Sweden, Leksand and Rättvik,are related to rural development processes. The longstanding traditions of voluntary participation in the area serve to constantly recreate social relationships and allow for the possibility of parallel economic development activities. The meanin....
By Tillberg Karin,Stenbacka Susanne--Uppsala University, Units outside the University, Institute for Housing and Urban Research--2006-12-04
For more than 35 years, the Eastern Mennonite High School Touring Choir has provided Concerts for choral enthusiasts throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. The present study documents the development, establishment, and growth of Touring Choir from its inception, through June of 1981: identifying (1) the events leading to the development of Touring Choir; (2....
By Dwight Cornell Basham-Teaching and Learning-VT-masters-1999-09-09
This study investigated how a hugely influential magazine, Rolling Stone, has covered one of popular music’s biggest icons in order to discover how the magazine fixes public memory and thereby creates celebrity. It examined how the magazine’s coverage of Springsteen changed over time; whether it corresponded to events in his career or personal life; what subjects it dealt with; the location, s....
By Bryan J. McGeary--Ohio University / OhioLINK-masters-0000-00-00
MA paper “Improvement of efficiency of teaching pupils of primary grades of music school to play musical instruments through optimum combination of age peculiarities and individual working methods" analyses efficiency of individual working methods of teaching pupils of primary grades of different ages to play piano. As children of different ages having different physical and mental capacities, a....
By Šarūnė Versockienė-Educology-Network
The gyil, or xylophone, played by the Dagarti of Northwestern Ghana, Southern Burkina Faso, and Eastern Cote d’Ivoire, has steadily gained popularity in recent years. Although the land inhabited by the Dagarti is far from any major city, musicians have brought the gyil to national and international audiences. Communicating as performers and teachers across cultural divides is often c....
By Corinna Siobhan Campbell-Music Ethnomusicology-Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK-masters-0000-00-00
Mode of access: World Wide Web.:::: Title from title page screen (viewed on Aug. 31, 2005).:::: Thesis advisor: Leslie C. Gay, Jr.:::: Document formatted into pages (vi, 154 p. : ill. (some col)).:::: Thesis (M.Music) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2005.:::: Vita.:::: Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-153).:::: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the effect that the crossov....
By Louanne Marie Iannaccone--University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Tennessee--0000-00-00
Usually the pedagogues use the traditional methods of teaching in their piano lessons to their pupils. Even the personal development already became one of important goal of the education in this century. But there still have big numbers of teacher whom separated the piano teaching with the personal education, because the main aims of the traditional methods of the teaching program tasks, encouragi....
By Heng Gao-Educology-Network
The fear to become a victim of a crime makes human‘s security feeling less, and makes social life inadequate that‘s why it‘s published everwhere that the security of property is one of the most important functions of the government. Despite juridical human‘s security of property thefts consists about 80% of all the registered crimes in Lithuania. Lawyers faces that breaches of the criminal....
By Neringa Streckytė-Law-Network of Lithuanian Academic Libraries-masters-2005-05-18
