Conducting
Concepts
Conducting Strategies
Conducting
Potpourri
Bruenger
Major
Research
100

Chromaticism is a major concept for this jazzy cold war song

What is Spy vs Spy

100

The kids are alright and will go Moony for this strategy of teaching call and response

What is using the Who's My Generation?

100

Travel north up the continent to find this conducting opportunity for Ewe Thina

What is Outro pyramid entrances - turn body early?

100

Showing why they make the big bucks, research has shown this person is key in achieving success of task-goal adaptation

Who is the principal?

100

Fundamentally interpretive describes this type of research

What is qualitative?

200

Tension/Release, Major vs. Minor Chorale Battle, and Climax Tension Build are concepts of this string piece

What is Finlandia?

200

Teaching verse variations for an African American folk song encompasses these strategies

What are

1. Reverse Verse Gesture: 4 vs. 1

2. Board: On vs. off spectrum

3. Listen, draw, describe -> gesture 

200

You won't feel the blues if you can name these chords used in this cold war string song

8Bm, 3E, 1F#

200

Like shopping at Target you'll come away with an extra item while naming these policies in the TARRGET framework

What are Task, Autonomy, Recognition/Rewards, Resources, Grouping, Evaluation, Time

200

A biography of Lowell Mason (and definitely not his dumb brother) can be a type of this very specific type of research. 

Small scale humanistic historical research

300

Ostinato rhythms and sad slow melodies characterize these two concepts for teaching this Daniel Robles folk-inspired song

What are Huayno and Harawi?

300

Fish, snacks, and pretend archery! These strategies can be used to teach the titular concept of Adagio Cantabile 

What are

  1. Jellyfish hands

  2. Zero Crunch Peers

  3. Singing line + airbow (match bow to sound) -> minimize breaths

300

Resolving to do these things while conducting can help Noah articulate Fantasy Sound concepts if he stops staring at Emma

anticlimactic resolutions to Ab, growing gesture to resolution in m. 10 D major

300

This method of qualitative research was used by Bruenger to understand something with Maehr(?). I'm not really sure the overarching purpose of his study. 

What is extreme case sampling?

300

Causal-comparative experiments are characterized by collecting data in this manner

What is pre- and post-treatment

400

These two concepts are considered important tools for teaching "Ballet No. 6" from “L’Amant Anonyme”

What are Feeling of 2 in 6/8 and Ternary Inception?

400

These strategies are key for teaching Contrasts and Tempo for Dreams of a Midsummer Night

Contrasts

1.  Spectra Attack/Release/Volume

2. Intensity Rehearsal

Keeping Tempo 

1. Happy Puck - Conducting surprises 

2. Sweet beats 

400

If you don't watch out for these habits in M. 44 of El Condor Pasa Dockendorf will start looking like how old Kevin pictured him

lessons in counting + entrances WITH clear cues. 

  • One hand/section DOESN’T work

  • Instead, cue initial entrances with energetic glide and m. 57 beat 4 violin to sweep up their sound and press down cello beat 1

400

These concepts differentiate Task and Ability focused goals

  1. Task -> participating for its own sake/personal competence, positive attitude, continued interest, deep processing strategies

  2. Ability -> comparative, surface-level/memorization, associated w/ negative feelings, less likely to continue

400

The five major types of qualitative research are these

  1. Narrative

  2. Phenomenology

  3. Ethnography

  4. Grounded Theory

  5. Case Study

500

These three concepts characterize teaching this legendary Soon Hee Newbold piece

What are Fantasy Sound, Texture contrasts, and 3/4 in 1

500

The Chevalier de Saint-Georges would agree. Feeling of 2 in 6/8 can be demonstrated using these two techniques

Sequenced Non-Verbal Echoes and Rhythm Chairs + THRONES

500
A piece where the nerdiest musicians are featured these tonal strategies can lead to greater understanding
  1. Remove + add accidentals -> effect?

  2. Em melody echo -> D#->E -> effect? -> Half note harmonic rhythm

  3. Image - seagull over rolling sea + Neanderthal (pass, lean, round)

500
These key items were used by the school to achieve positive results across 6 of the 8 TARRGET policies
  1. 6/8 Maehr TARRGET (no A/G focus in study)

  2. T - relevancy, goal-setting (ABC), extra-class programs (kinder buddies)

  3. R - personal best awards, no special recognition (against framework)

  4. R - PD on task-goal emphasis, $, emphasis on specialists

  5. E - Grading/reporting for effort, opp to improve

  6. T - flexibility of scheduling in learning experiences, learning task/student dictate schedule

500

In the classic algebra formula "y = mx + b", y and x represent these types of variables. 

X is independent and Y is dependent