Author examined some of the ways that the art of composition is applied in jazz through concentrating on three figures - Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Thelonious Monk. (Editor/RK)

This study is based on interviews carried out with 13 adult learners of traditional fiddle playing. The average age of the learners was 56 and they had been learning to play for between 2 and 20 years. All of the interviewees had taken music at school but none of them had been stimulated to participate further in any significant sense. The…

Article investigated the role of the marching band and the proficiencies required by its members. (RK)

Article presented musical notations appropriate to some of the problems of sustaining sounds on the snare drum. (Author/RK)

Part of a section, "Essays in Musical Retribalization.

To aid in providing a sounder methodological program in the teaching of trumpet playing, a study was made of the profiles of physical parameters involved in playing the instrument. Data were collected while beginning, intermediate, or advanced players performed scales in F, D, and B-flat and two etudes in both staccato and legato. The means used…

Explains notational systems for African music. (AM)

Reviews a dissertation which examined the scoring practices for alto, bass, and contrabass clarinets in selected compositions written between 1951-1972. The study identified new practices for scoring low clarinets in wind band compositions. The study is recommended to readers seeking a good understanding of the use of clarinets in these…

Contemporary brass instruments and today's playing techniques can be quite misleading if treated as evidence, or even as vestiges of pre-eighteenth century techniques and performance concepts. (Author)

Describes how to make and use clappers." (MB)

A photo-essay of children who have studied the violin under the Suzuki system. (MF)

Suggests inexpensive rhythm instruments children can make from familiar materials found at home. (NH)

The guitar is an invaluable medium for bringing music to the general student. (Author)

New trends in music will make this art more interesting and relevant to the students of today. (CK)