In an effort to research the supply and demand of modern music, the author organized the Modern Listeners' Record Club, a mail order club devoted exclusively to modern recordings. (AP)

Mass media has made it possible for all members of the public to listen to and enjoy good music. (CK)

Attempts to relate subjective emotional quality with specific vocal production techniques of Hupa Brush Dance songs. (ERB)

Reviews the life of Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, with emphasis on his collection and use of ethnic music sources. (SJL)

In this article, the author describes the evolution of a promising practice, his story of how he developed theory out of his teaching experiences. He tells his story in support of educators who struggle to bring meaning, joy, and understanding to children who are currently being stifled by prescriptive and restrictive regulatory mandates that…

The author states that among the various approaches to music education, her dialectical and epistemological view offers a way of thinking about music and education and deciding how to go forward in teaching and learning music. In this article, she shows how this particular philosophical perspective can play out in teaching for the development of…

This researcher sought to investigate the relationship between perceptual learning modalities of fifth grade elementary school students and their compositional processes and products. Music composition, at the elementary school level, has been studied for many years, as the creation of new music can give students a more active role in learning,…

This study reports students' motivation changes after they were guided to compose. A total of 582 students in five primary schools responded to a set of pre- and post-activity questionnaires before and after participating in composing activities. A univariate ANOVA and a series of repeated measures ANOVAs were used to compare the mean scores…

Reported discourse--as theorized by Bakhtin, bringing the voices of others into our own writing through quotation, citation and paraphrase, as well as more subtle means--is at the heart of all academic writing, including basic writing. This article, both in its texture and its analysis, demonstrates that reported discourse must be regarded, and…

The style of a set of nursery tunes are described in terms of a generative rule system. It is found that there are many parallels between music and sentence structure. These parallels may reflect man's perceptual and cognitive capacities. (Author/DEP)

From a supertoy for the gifted to a musical sketchpad for the ordinary student--the computer is becoming an intriguing new learning tool. (Editor)