Faculty Book Gallery
This collection contains books by faculty and staff in the Department of School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.
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The Creative Listener
Brett Copeland, Dakota Corbliss, Derek Ganong, and Austin Seybert
Have you ever considered what processes are occurring when you engage with music? What goes on in your brain when you are listening to music, performing, reading, writing, or improvising? Edwin Gordon shows us that no matter what your skill or experience level may be, the end result of engaging with music is the same: giving meaning to sound. Research shows that audiation is one of the most important contributors to student success in core music curricula. Despite this body of research and the availability of resources, the use of audiation-specific pedagogy in the applied music classroom is not commonplace. This is due to a variety of factors that range from the lack of exposure to this topic in terminal degrees to the academic separation of musicianship and performance in music curricula worldwide.
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Aural Training and Sight Singing Supplement for Comprehensive Musicianship: A Practical Resource [2023]
Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Schwabe, and Daniel Swilley
This supplement was designed to help students build a strong foundation in aural training and sight singing by progressing through the core rhythmic and melodic patterns that are found in music. Through the progression of content, students will build skills in pattern recognition and an understanding of how music functions. Rhythms for each section include single and two-part examples as well as pitched examples for use in aural training. Melodies for each section include single line melodies, canons, duets, and chorales. Melodies were designed to be easily accessible for students with basic keyboard skills, and were written without articulation and dynamic markings to allow students and instructors the flexibility to personalize them. -- Provided by the publisher
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Aural Training and Sight Singing Supplement for Comprehensive Musicianship: A Practical Resource [2022]
Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Schwabe, and Daniel Swilley
This supplement was designed to help students build a strong foundation in aural training and sight singing by progressing through the core rhythmic and melodic patterns that are found in music. Through the progression of content, students will build skills in pattern recognition and an understanding of how music functions. Rhythms for each section include single and two-part examples as well as pitched examples for use in aural training. Melodies for each section include single line melodies, canons, duets, and chorales. Melodies were designed to be easily accessible for students with basic keyboard skills, and were written without articulation and dynamic markings to allow students and instructors the flexibility to personalize them. -- Provided by the publisher
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Comprehensive Musicianship, A Practical Resource
Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Schwabe, and Daniel Swilley
This OER presents an integrated suite of learning resources developed for the core music theory and musicianship curriculum at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music. It provides a more comprehensive symbiosis of musicianship and music theory learning than can be found in existing textbooks, including engaging and progressive video demonstrations and interactive listening and vocal exercises that integrate musical knowledge with foundational musical skills. This OER affords the flexibility to shape core musicianship and music theory learning to meet the needs of changing School of Music demographics well into the future, a resource for innovative and inviting music programs accessible to all. -- Provided by the publisher
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Workbook for Comprehensive Musicianship: A Practical Resource
Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Schwabe, and Daniel Swilley
This workbook is a supplement to Comprehensive Musicianship: A Practical Resource. Each workbook chapter corresponds to the equivalent chapter in the textbook, and is designed to facilitate the exploration and mastery of the concepts presented through a variety of exercises. Exercises contained in the workbook consist of musical analysis and writing drills, presented both in isolated examples and in context in musical literature, as well as the application of music theory concepts through composition exercises. These exercises can be used as class examples as well as homework assignments. -- Provided by the publisher
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Three Women Opera Composers: A Musicological Interpretation of Ingeborg Von Bronsart, Ethel Smyth, and Thea Musgrave
Melinda Boyd
This book is intended to broaden our understanding of opera by investigating the contributions of selected women composers who successfully navigated educational, institutional and social restrictions, and traditions in order to bring their operas to the public theaters, where their lives, as well as their works, were subject to scrutiny and criticism of the musical press. Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840-1913), Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), and Thea Musgrave (b. 1928) all made distinguished contributions to their art, producing operas of considerable artistic merit that were admired by many of their contemporaries.
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Great Teachers on Great Singing
Katherine Osborne and Scott McCoy
Interviews with 14 of America's most successful singing teachers, including Penelope Bitzas, Joyce Farwell, Julia Faulkner, George Gibson, Ruth Golden, Robert Harrison, Stephen King, Patricia McCaffrey, Everett McCorvey, Heidi Grant Murphy, Bill Schuman, George Shirley, W. Stephen Smith, and Carol Vaness. I am delighted to introduce Great Teachers on Great Singing, by Robin Rice. The subtitle for this book might Interviews with some of the finest singing teachers in America, based on observations of their lessons. These master teachers present a broad range of technical approaches to vocal excellence and artistry, proving once again that there is more than one way to “skin the cat.” Rice’s book follows in the footsteps of Jerome Hines’ masterpiece, Great Singers on Great Singing (1982), but with a twist. Hines interviewed singers with whom he worked on the great opera stages of the world, and with medical experts who attended to their health. In the process, he revealed a huge diversity of opinions and techniques, along with some significant misconceptions about physiology and resonance maintained by the top echelon of professionals. By contrast, Rice explores the diverse techniques used by highly successful teachers—people who enable the beautiful singing we love to hear. -Scott McCoy, voice professor and editor-in-chief Sold directly by the publisher, Inside View Press -- Provided by publisher
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Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide
Melinda Boyd and Karin Pendle
Testifies to the variety of subjects and approaches represented in writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.