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Practice Behaviors of Eighth-Grade Instrumental Musicians
Citation: Rohwer, Debbie and Jeremy Polk. Practice Behaviors of Eighth-Grade Instrumental Musicians. Journal of Research in Music Education, Winter 2006, Vol. 54 No.4.
Article Title: Practice Behaviors of Eighth-Grade Instrumental Musicians
Author: Debbie Rohwer and Jeremy Polk
Instrument: Bassoon
Magazine or Journal Title: Journal of Research in Music Education
Summary:
Article Title: Practice Behaviors of Eighth-Grade Instrumental Musicians
Author: Debbie Rohwer and Jeremy Polk
Instrument: Bassoon
Magazine or Journal Title: Journal of Research in Music Education
Summary:
- Practice
- Amount of practice related to amount of achievement in instrumentalists
- Positive effects
- Motivation and commitment
- Self-efficacy
- Attention
- Strategies vary
- Beginning exercises slowly, increasing tempo
- Breaking down exercises
- Efficiency of practice also effect amount of success
- Method
- Study done with high school students about their practice habits
- Had directors assess study to see if it was valid
- Students said they use repetition, practicing slow to fast, and pinpointing difficult sections as their most effective strategies for practicing
- Normally practicing at home
- Positive correlation between number of techniques used and their improvement throughout their performances
The Bassoon
Citation: Schleiffer, John E. The Bassoon: Three Technical Studies. Music Educators Journal, Jan 1967, Vol. 53, No. 5.
Article Title: The Bassoon: Three Technical Studies
Author: John E. Schleiffer
Instrument: Bassoon
Magazine or Journal Title: Music Educators Journal
Summary:
Article Title: The Bassoon: Three Technical Studies
Author: John E. Schleiffer
Instrument: Bassoon
Magazine or Journal Title: Music Educators Journal
Summary:
- Piano Key Mechanisms
- Harmonics played on woodwind instruments with use of octave/register key
- Bassoon has 3: octave key that opens hole in the bocal, A-key, C key
- Impossible to should them all at once
- Key developed to help this difficulty: piano key mechanism
- Illustration so to show what they look like, where they are located
- Diagrams to show how they are used
- Bassoon Staccato
- Very valuable to bassoonists
- Position of tongue in relation to the tip of the reed
- Young students have difficulty to manage where to tongue
- Practicing is the best remedy
- Practice playing slowly as staccato gets more difficult the longer you play
- Play as short as possible
- Single tongue staccato can meet all requirements of music
- Speaker-keys
- Modern bassoons have 3 speaker keys, controlled by the left hand
- For legato movements render them more safely
- Examples of when they would be useful
- Practice will allow them to successfully operate these keys