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Practice Takes Practice: Find All the Time You Need to Practice
This article discusses strategies for musicians to have more efficient practice sessions.
Just Roll With It: Exploring the Array of Arpeggiated Chords
This article discusses different styles for playing arpeggiated chords.
Playing in Theory: Incorporating Music Theory Into Your Harp Playing
This article discusses basic principles of music theory that can incorporated into learning a musical work.
Cracking the Code: Using Tonal Theory to Solve the Puzzle Between the Notes
This article discusses strategies for harpists to use music theory for learning and memorizing music.
Put Some Bliss in Your Gliss: Mastering Our Signature Sound
This article discusses the glissando for harp.
Mind Games: Getting Out of Your Head
This article discusses strategies for developing focus during a performance.
Balance Points: Achieving Balance in Your Body to Make Better Music
This article discusses the need for harpists to be properly balanced when playing.
Reset the Standard
This article discusses how harpists can incorporate alternative pieces into their standard repertoire.
Creating Music in Silence: How to Harvest the White Space Between the Notes
This article discusses the use of white space between notes to enhance a harpist's technical skills.
Fire Up Your Warm Ups: Find the Right Recipe to Get Your Body Primed to Practice
This article discusses the reasons why warm ups are necessary, and includes variations for harpists.
Work Out Stage Stress
This article discusses how exercise can mitigate stage fright.
Charting Your Course: Explore Your Musical Landscape and Elevate Your Performance
This article discusses how to engage with the musical structure of a work to enhance a musician's performance.
Reviving Old War Horses: How to Breathe New Life Into Stale Standards
This article discusses strategies to reinvigorate repertoire standards.
An Acoustical Analysis of the Frequency-Attenuation Response of Musician Earplugs
This article discusses the influence of musician earplugs on musical stimuli.
Find Your Voice: Beautiful Tone is Possible for Everyone
This article discusses strategies for harpists to improve their tone.
Practice Takes Practice: Maximize Your Investment in Practice Time
This article discusses time management strategies for practice sessions.
Smart-Reading
This article discusses strategies to improve sight-reading musical works.
Harp by Heart: Playing by Heart Does Not Need to be a Heart-Stopping Experience
This article discusses strategies memorizing music.
Accidentals on Purpose: Perfect Your Lever or Pedal Technique
This article discusses strategies for harpists to improve their lever and pedal technique.
A Personal Journey with Henriette Renié
This article contains an excerpt from The Legend of Henriette Renié by Odette de Montesquiou, edited by Jaymee Haefner, translated by Robert Kilpatrick and published by AuthorHouse.
Epidemiological Survey of College Student-Musicians Participating in Marching Band [Presentation]
Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on an epidemiologic survey of college student-musicians participating in marching band.
A Survey of Songs for the Flute
Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas disucsing a survey of songs for the flute.
Health Patterns of Clarinetists: An Epidemiologic Survey and its Impact on Educators, Performers, and Student-Musicians
Presentation on a study that investigated the prevalence, intensity, frequency, and quality of musculoskeletal pain as well as performance anxiety and identify factors among clarinet players and instructors. Some results of the study are discussed along with implications for performers, educators, and student-musicians. It was presented at the International Clarinet Association Conference held in July 2019.
Health Problems of Clarinetists: An Epidemiologic Survey
Poster presenting results of a study that characterizes clarinet specific health problems such as site-specific pain, non-musculoskeletal issues, performance anxiety, and related variables including instrument type, use of neck-strap, educational attainment, musician identity, and other lifestyle and performance-related factors. An online survey specifically for clarinetists was developed using techniques adopted from a recent study of trombonists (interactive body maps, skip logic, etc.). In addition to clarinetists being underrepresented in previous epidemiologic research, previous studies did not consider the lower lip as being a potential pain site despite clarinet pedagogues mentioning this concern, proliferation of commercial products to help clarinetists manage lip pain, and the lip being a primary contact point between the instrument and the body. Consistent with findings from Thrasher and Chesky, clarinetists in this study also reported musculoskeletal problems in the right wrist area.
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