What Do Drummers Really Want? : A Survey of American University Percussion Instructors

ISBN-13: 9783639017144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 68 str.

Ronald Horner

Opis

Teaching percussion instruments in elementary school settings presents unique challenges. Development of reading skills, musicality, technique, and listening skills are often cited as concerns. Materials selected by educators can facilitate or encumber the process. This study examined the characteristics of beginning methods materials from the perspective of college level percussion teachers. The ideal beginning percussion method book as described by the survey respondent group appears to have much in common with materials traditionally used over the past fifty years. There is an acknowledgement of the need for a new approach, but this study indicates that while college level percussion teachers make such an acknowledgement, they wish to retain the proven methods of the past.

O autorze

Ronald Horner is a member of the music faculty at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania and Frostburg State University. He
holds the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from West Virginia
University. A former member of the Israel Philharmonic, he is
the author of the timpani method The Tuneful Timpanist.