Category: Education
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Ideas for directing student jazz bands
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in EducationThe following is a summary of lessons learned from observing rehearsals of jazz big bands. A great debt is owed here to Dr. Ray Smith of Brigham Young University, director of the Synthesis big band. A picture is worth a thousand words The student jazz group should be exposed to recordings (or, when possible, live …
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Private teaching methods of university music professors: Observations, analysis, and application
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in EducationIntroduction During the month of October 2001, I observed the private teaching methods of music professors at Brigham Young University. Though each professor’s methods differed in some details, the underlying principles of effective teaching were very similar: first, provide an environment in which the student is comfortable and undistracted; second, provide clear objectives, including honest …