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Pre-collegiate clarinet instructors are often challenged to teach students both fundamental skills and repertoire with limited instructional time. Insufficient time may cause fundamental skills to be addressed at the expense of repertoire or repertoire study may limit time spent on fundamental development. This document provides a suggested repertoire list that categorizes pre-collegiate clarinet literature based on the fundamental skill addressed in each included piece. Teachers can select repertoire that allows students to concurrently refine a fundamental skill while preparing a piece for performance. Addressed fundamental topics include embouchure, expanding the range into the clarion and altissimo registers, articulation, breathing, intonation, finger technique, and musicality.
Clarinet method books and treatises were studied to determine which fundamental concepts to include and to find established teaching techniques recommended by pedagogues. Pre-collegiate clarinet instructors were surveyed to determine which pieces of clarinet repertoire were frequently studied in their private lesson curriculum and why, and if they used specific pieces in order to isolate a fundamental skill. Literature found in repertoire lists, repertoire books, on-line catalogs, and from the survey results was examined. Repertoire was selected for inclusion if it contained passages that were analogous to the established teaching strategies.
Clarinet method books and treatises were studied to determine which fundamental concepts to include and to find established teaching techniques recommended by pedagogues. Pre-collegiate clarinet instructors were surveyed to determine which pieces of clarinet repertoire were frequently studied in their private lesson curriculum and why, and if they used specific pieces in order to isolate a fundamental skill. Literature found in repertoire lists, repertoire books, on-line catalogs, and from the survey results was examined. Repertoire was selected for inclusion if it contained passages that were analogous to the established teaching strategies.
ContributorsAustermann, Kelly R (Author) / Spring, Robert (Committee member) / Gardner, Joshua (Committee member) / Holbrook, Amy (Committee member) / Russell, Timothy (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
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Finger motion and hand posture of six professional clarinetists (defined by entrance into or completion of a doctorate of musical arts degree in clarinet performance) were recorded using a pair of CyberGloves® in Arizona State University's Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory. Performance tasks included performing a slurred three-octave chromatic scale in sixteenth notes, at sixty quarter-note beats per minute, three times, with a metronome and a short pause between repetitions, and forming three pedagogical hand postures. Following the CyberGloves® tasks, each subject completed a questionnaire about equipment, playing history, practice routines, health practices, and hand usage during computer and sports activities. CyberGlove® data were analyzed to find average hand/finger postures and differences for each pitch across subjects, subject variance in the performance task and differences in ascending and descending postures of the chromatic scale. The data were also analyzed to describe generalized finger posture characteristics based on hand size, whether right hand thumb position affects finger flexion, and whether professional clarinetists use similar finger/hand postures when performing on clarinet, holding a tennis ball, allowing hands to hang freely by the sides, or form a "C" shape. The findings of this study suggest an individual approach based on hand size is necessary for teaching clarinet hand posture.
ContributorsHarger, Stefanie (Author) / Spring, Robert (Thesis advisor) / Hill, Gary (Committee member) / Koonce, Frank (Committee member) / Norton, Kay (Committee member) / Stauffer, Sandy (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2011
ContributorsHoenraet, Edith (Performer) / Santos, Rúbia (Performer) / Winkler, Chris (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1996-10-12
ContributorsRossow, Brenda (Performer) / Murray, Michele (Performer) / Bish, Deborah (Performer) / Layton, Spencer (Performer) / McGale, Karen (Performer) / Graduate Woodwind Quintet (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1998-10-07
ContributorsBuck, Elizabeth (Performer) / Schuring, Martin (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Lyman, Jeffrey (Performer) / Ericson, John Q. (John Quincy), 1962- (Performer) / Faculty Woodwind Quintet (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2004-02-07
ContributorsPeterson, Trygve (Performer) / Sellheim, Eckart (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Lyman, Jeffrey (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1997-10-19
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This document explores the presence of stereotype threat among college students training for careers in music. Beginning in the 1990s, an effort led by Claude M. Steele (social psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University) identified stereotype threat as an attribute to the underperformance of minority groups. Continued research has mainly focused on stereotype threat within the following contexts: female performance within science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) fields, African American performance on standardized tests, and European American performance in athletics. This document contains two pilot studies that strive to apply current stereotype threat research to the field of music education and music performance in order to ask the following questions: Does stereotype threat impact the education of underrepresented collegiate music students? Does stereotype threat heighten gender awareness of musicians when they enter the typical auditioning environment? The two pilot studies consist of the following: (1) a survey intended to analyze the possible impact of stereotype threat on music students’ interaction with their colleagues and music instructors and (2) a quantitative study that explores the presence of stereotype threat (among musicians) through the use of a word-fragment completion task administered immediately before a mock audition.
ContributorsLloyd, Abby Lynn (Author) / Spring, Robert (Thesis advisor) / Gardner, Joshua (Thesis advisor) / Hill, Gary (Committee member) / Schmelz, Peter (Committee member) / Sullivan, Jill (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2017
ContributorsBuck, Elizabeth (Performer) / Schuring, Martin (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Lyman, Jeffrey (Performer) / Ericson, John Q. (John Quincy), 1962- (Performer) / Pilafian, Sam (Performer) / Wytko, Joseph (Performer) / Faculty Woodwind Quintet (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2005-04-17
ContributorsHoover, Eric (Performer) / Koonce, Frank (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Barroll-Aschaffenburg, Rayna (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1989-04-28
ContributorsHoenraet, Edith (Performer) / Winkler, Chris (Performer) / Bish, Deborah (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1997-09-13