Alight (piano solo) BEAUTIFUL and LONGING

A composition written on the piano; a light, elegant and beautiful journey.

Allure (elegant piano solo)

An elegant piano solo.

And on (piano and acoustic guitar cinematic style)

and on is a short instrumental featuring a nylon stringed acoustic guitar with an echo, chorus and tap reverb added to the tail, piano, and two synth pads.

Arpeggio magic (piano and timpani)

Just over a minute long this piano arpeggio plays out a joyful melody and dramatic timpani, cymbals and vocal pads assist the journey.

Atmos (piano and guitar)

Atmos (Piano and Guitar) is a short instrumental with piano and guitar.

Ave (piano and vocal) DREAMY

This audio features vocals, piano, strings, synth and bells a curious and unique piece with a light feel.

Prose fiction’s infinite playlist : encountering music in fiction narrative

This paper will argue that reference to music in young-adult prose fiction stimulates movement across narrative and artistic boundaries in ways that facilitate a unique reading encounter. The inclusion of musical reference opens up a space for a multisensory experience that is beyond that of the reading experience devoid of musical association, even when the audio is not immediately available at the time of reading. This experience is bound to the role of the reader, however, be it through the remembered or imagined experience of the music that is signaled in-text, or even the reader’s pursuit of the audio in response to the reading. As ‘a threshold literature’ (Eaton 2010, np) that targets a young audience for whom ‘popular music is globally acknowledged as affectively and culturally central’ (Bloustien & Peters 2011, 4), young-adult fiction is an apt space for explorations into the potential that exists when a text includes musical reference. In particular, Gerard Genette’s paratexts (1997), J Hillis Miller’s ‘membranes’ (2005) and T Austin Graham’s ‘literary soundtrack’ (2009) will be used to examine how Rachel Cohn and David Levithan’s young-adult fiction novel Nick and Norah’s infinite playlist (2006) functions as an ‘infinite playlist’ in itself via a series of paratextual and epitextual elements. Discussion of the latticework of music-narrative interaction that exists as a part of this text will facilitate an understanding of how musical reference can encourage movement within and beyond the narrative towards a potentially unique reading experience.

Opportunities and challenges : preparing generalist teacher education students in music education in Australia

The Australian Curriculum ‘the Arts’ will be implemented across Australia from 2014. This curriculum is expected to replace existing State and Territory curricula where educators are given the opportunity to review, renew, and refresh their practice. Music tertiary educators are faced with opportunities and challenges to effectively prepare and engage pre-service teachers (PSTs) as generalist classroom teachers. This paper focuses on PSTs within the Bachelor of Primary Education course at Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia). Within this course PSTs undertake two Arts units as generalist teachers, in Trimester one where they are introduced to music elements and creative music making. In Trimester two they focus on pedagogical issues and classroom implementation. In 2013, I gained ethical permission to undertake a research project titled “Pre-service teacher attitudes and understandings of Music Education”. This case study draws on semi-structured interview data with music lecturers who taught in Trimester two at Deakin University in 2013 (10 x 3 hour workshops). Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis I analyzed and codified the interview data and report on two themes: ways of teaching and creative music making. This paper also highlights the challenges and opportunities sessional staff face when preparing PSTs in music education as generalist teachers.

Preservice music students explore African music in an Australian tertiary context

Can music therapy in medical contexts ever be evidence-based?

This essay seeks to consider some of the issues around evidencethat provide an ongoing challenge to the profession of music therapyto be vigilant and critical with regards the undertaking, butalso the appropriation or application, of research in our alliedhealth discipline. It is written in response to the statement that“medical music therapists need to continue to discuss and debateour views as to what constitutes knowledge, expertise and ‘evidence’in our profession.” (Edwards, 2002, p. 33). A critical perspectiveto current demands for evidence is provided, and the useof quantitative method as the basis for trustworthy research inmusic therapy is discussed. The paediatric medical context is themain site of professional research of the author, however, some ofthe points made will have relevance for other fields of clinicalservice.

Uma análise das fugas para piano de Bruno Kiefer : uma busca por padrões estilísticos na sua escrita contrapontística

Este trabalho oferece um estudo dos padrões estilísticos definidos através da análise dos processos contrapontísticos encontrados no terceiro movimento da Sonata nº I, Fuga e Toccata e do movimento final de Duas peças Sérias da obra para piano de Bruno Kiefer. A fuga, uma das técnicas de composição linear mais estabelecidas na escrita musical, reflete as transformações estilísticas na música ocidental. Considerando a diversidade de possibilidades estéticas na música do século XX, faz-se mister investigar como Kiefer tratou uma técnica composicional consagrada, preservando de modo singular e consistente o estilo inovador atribuído às suas obras. O referencial teórico adotado para este estudo é Twentieth Century Fugue – A Handbook (1962) de William Graves, Jr.. A partir da análise dos padrões recorrentes nas fugas de Bruno Kiefer, verificou-se o distanciamento entre os parâmetros da fuga tradicional e o estilo da escrita contrapontística do compositor.

Influência da chuva na eficácia do herbicida 2,4-D no controle de Myriophyllum aquaticum

O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a eficiência de controle de duas doses do herbicida 2,4-D pulverizado em plantas de M. aquaticum e submetido à simulação de chuva em diferentes períodos de tempo após sua aplicação. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o inteiramente casualizado, com quatro repetições, disposto em um esquema fatorial 2 x 8 (duas doses de herbicida e oito intervalos de chuva). Utilizou-se o herbicida 2,4-D, na formulação comercial DMA 806, em duas doses: 670 e 1.340 g e.a. ha-1. A simulação de uma chuva de 15 mm, com duração de cinco minutos, foi realizada em oito intervalos de tempo após a pulverização do herbicida (0,25h, 0,5h, 1h, 2h, 4h, 8h, 12h e sem chuva). Foram realizadas avaliações visuais de controle aos 7, 14, 21 e 28 dias após a aplicação dos tratamentos. As duas doses avaliadas do herbicida 2,4-D foram eficientes no controle das plantas de M. aquaticum, mesmo com ocorrência de chuva 15 minutos após sua aplicação.

Detection of enterotoxin genes of Staphylococcus sp isolated from nasal cavities and hands of food handlers

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)