Women's Songs. The Lullaby in the Spanish Autonomous Region of Valencia

A lullaby is a song performed almost exclusively by women in all cultures to make children fall asleep. But traditional lullaby singing has declined due to social change. This study analyzes its structure and content thoroughly and aspects of this tradition providing information on usage, customs, themes and types of melody, and reflecting the importance of this form of cultural expression.

A improvisação ao órgão no desenvolvimento da leitura à primeira vista

Resumo I (Prática Pedagógica) - A Secção I - Prática Pedagógica - refere-se ao Estágio que a mestranda realizou no Conservatório de Música de Ourém e Fátima durante o ano lectivo 2013-2014. No âmbito das suas funções de docente, a mestranda realizou o estágio com um aluno do I Grau – 5º ano do Regime Articulado, e com um aluno do III Grau - 7º ano do Regime Articulado e assistiu, ainda, às aulas de um aluno do V Grau - 9º ano do Regime Articulado, sob a orientação da professora cooperante, docente de órgão dessa mesma escola. Nesta secção é feita uma breve caracterização da escola onde se realizou o estágio bem como dos alunos envolvidos no estágio. Por último, são mencionadas as práticas educativas desenvolvidas, os objectivos gerais para o ano lectivo, os métodos utilizados, os objectivos pedagógicos implícitos para cada período e, a finalizar, é apresentada uma análise crítica da actividade docente.

Carving into country: the work of Badger Bates

Badger Bates (William Brian Bates) was born on the Darling River at Wilcannia in 1947. His grandmother, Granny Moysey, a revered Paakantyi woman who spoke several Aboriginal languages, raised him, teaching him stories and traditional songs. This was the beginning of Badger’s journey into a complex and sophisticated knowledge system. As a child Badger experienced the knowledge and practice imparted by his grandmother which informs his artwork today. Badger learnt carving from her and other Paakantyi elders, and by 1986 he was selling his carvings of wood and emu eggs to the Australian Museum in Sydney.

De la oralidad a la escritura : Un camino de ida y vuelta en el Cancionero Popular Infantil

No podemos ignorar los cambios en los mecanismos de transmisión, también de aprendizaje, de las composiciones del Cancionero Popular Infantil. Dos trabajos de campo (2000 y 2009), donde se recogieron más de mil composiciones de dos grupos de informantes: niños (4o y 5o de Primaria) y adultos (de más de 55 años), muestran diferencias sobre: 1) El lugar en que aprendieron las composiciones transmitidas: los adultos (90 por ciento de los casos) en espacios relacionados con la familia o con la calle; los niños (40 por ciento) "en el colegio". 2) La persona que se las enseñó: el 7 de los adultos la aprendieron de profesores, frente al 23 por ciento de los niños. 3) El proceso de pérdida. En parte, se ha pasado de una transmisión oral, de generación a generación, a un aprendizaje escolar: de la oralidad a la escritura. Aunque seguimos siendo eslabones de una cadena de comunicación que tiene su sustento en la voz ancestral de la memoria, los cambios en la transmisión y el aprendizaje de las composiciones del Cancionero Popular Infantil nos obligan a preguntarnos si habrá que enseñar esas cantilenas para que no se pierdan de manera definitiva

De la oralidad a la escritura : Un camino de ida y vuelta en el Cancionero Popular Infantil

No podemos ignorar los cambios en los mecanismos de transmisión, también de aprendizaje, de las composiciones del Cancionero Popular Infantil. Dos trabajos de campo (2000 y 2009), donde se recogieron más de mil composiciones de dos grupos de informantes: niños (4o y 5o de Primaria) y adultos (de más de 55 años), muestran diferencias sobre: 1) El lugar en que aprendieron las composiciones transmitidas: los adultos (90 por ciento de los casos) en espacios relacionados con la familia o con la calle; los niños (40 por ciento) "en el colegio". 2) La persona que se las enseñó: el 7 de los adultos la aprendieron de profesores, frente al 23 por ciento de los niños. 3) El proceso de pérdida. En parte, se ha pasado de una transmisión oral, de generación a generación, a un aprendizaje escolar: de la oralidad a la escritura. Aunque seguimos siendo eslabones de una cadena de comunicación que tiene su sustento en la voz ancestral de la memoria, los cambios en la transmisión y el aprendizaje de las composiciones del Cancionero Popular Infantil nos obligan a preguntarnos si habrá que enseñar esas cantilenas para que no se pierdan de manera definitiva

De la oralidad a la escritura : Un camino de ida y vuelta en el Cancionero Popular Infantil

No podemos ignorar los cambios en los mecanismos de transmisión, también de aprendizaje, de las composiciones del Cancionero Popular Infantil. Dos trabajos de campo (2000 y 2009), donde se recogieron más de mil composiciones de dos grupos de informantes: niños (4o y 5o de Primaria) y adultos (de más de 55 años), muestran diferencias sobre: 1) El lugar en que aprendieron las composiciones transmitidas: los adultos (90 por ciento de los casos) en espacios relacionados con la familia o con la calle; los niños (40 por ciento) "en el colegio". 2) La persona que se las enseñó: el 7 de los adultos la aprendieron de profesores, frente al 23 por ciento de los niños. 3) El proceso de pérdida. En parte, se ha pasado de una transmisión oral, de generación a generación, a un aprendizaje escolar: de la oralidad a la escritura. Aunque seguimos siendo eslabones de una cadena de comunicación que tiene su sustento en la voz ancestral de la memoria, los cambios en la transmisión y el aprendizaje de las composiciones del Cancionero Popular Infantil nos obligan a preguntarnos si habrá que enseñar esas cantilenas para que no se pierdan de manera definitiva

The songs of England : a collection of 200 English melodies, including the most popular traditional ditties, and the principal songs and ballads of the last three centuries /

Each volume contains 100 songs with piano acc.

Learning English is Fun! Incidental vocabulary acquisition of music and traditional class ninth graders via listening to pop songs

Finnish youth are constantly exposed to music and lyrics in English in their free time. It is likely that this has a positive effect on vocabulary learning. Learning vocabulary while simultaneously accompanied with melodies is likely to result in better learning outcomes. The present thesis covers a study on the vocabulary learning of traditional and music class ninth graders in a south-western upper comprehensive school in Finland, mainly concentrating on vocabulary learning as a by-product of listening to pop music and learning vocabulary through semantic priming. The theoretical background presents viable linguistic arguments and theories, which provide clarity for why it would be possible to learn English vocabulary via listening to pop songs. There is conflicting evidence on the benefits of music on vocabulary learning, and this thesis sets out to shed light on the situation. Additionally, incorporating pop music in English classes could assist in decreasing the gap between real world English and school English. The thesis is a mixed method research study consisting of both quantitative and qualitative research materials. The methodology comprises vocabulary tests both before and after pop music samples and a background questionnaire filled by students. According to the results, all students reported liking listening to music and they clearly listened to English pop music the most. A statistically significant difference was found when analysing the results of the differences in pre- and post-vocabulary tests. However, the traditional class appeared to listen to mainstream pop music more than the students in the music class, and thus it seems likely that the traditional class benefited more from vocabulary learning occurring via listening to pop songs. In conclusion, it can be established that it is possible to learn English vocabulary via listening to pop songs and that students wish their English lectures would involve more music-related vocabulary exercises in the future. Thus, when it comes to school learning, pop songs should be utilised in vocabulary learning, which could also in turn result in more diverse learning and the students could, more easily than before, relate to the themes and topics of the lectures. Furthermore, with the help of pop songs it would be possible to decrease the gap between school English and real-world English.

Examining the Effectiveness of Discriminant Function Analysis and Cluster Analysis in Species Identification of Male Field Crickets Based on Their Calling Songs

Traditional taxonomy based on morphology has often failed in accurate species identification owing to the occurrence of cryptic species, which are reproductively isolated but morphologically identical. Molecular data have thus been used to complement morphology in species identification. The sexual advertisement calls in several groups of acoustically communicating animals are species-specific and can thus complement molecular data as non-invasive tools for identification. Several statistical tools and automated identifier algorithms have been used to investigate the efficiency of acoustic signals in species identification. Despite a plethora of such methods, there is a general lack of knowledge regarding the appropriate usage of these methods in specific taxa. In this study, we investigated the performance of two commonly used statistical methods, discriminant function analysis (DFA) and cluster analysis, in identification and classification based on acoustic signals of field cricket species belonging to the subfamily Gryllinae. Using a comparative approach we evaluated the optimal number of species and calling song characteristics for both the methods that lead to most accurate classification and identification. The accuracy of classification using DFA was high and was not affected by the number of taxa used. However, a constraint in using discriminant function analysis is the need for a priori classification of songs. Accuracy of classification using cluster analysis, which does not require a priori knowledge, was maximum for 6-7 taxa and decreased significantly when more than ten taxa were analysed together. We also investigated the efficacy of two novel derived acoustic features in improving the accuracy of identification. Our results show that DFA is a reliable statistical tool for species identification using acoustic signals. Our results also show that cluster analysis of acoustic signals in crickets works effectively for species classification and identification.

CANCIONES ARGENTINAS (SONGS OFARGENTINA): A RECORDING PROJECT

This Dissertation Project comprises recordings of Argentine art songs. The discs are approximately 40-60 minutes in length and consist of songs from the traditional art-song repertoire for voice and piano. This project is particularly appropriate because of the very limited number of recordings of Argentine songs, which are notable both not only for their high quality but for their accessibility of performance for voice teachers, students, and professional singers alike. Art songs in the Spanish language are a welcome resource, and the poetry included in this project is of an outstanding quality. Some of the poets set to music are Gabriela Mistral (a poet laureate of Chile and the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature), Pablo Neruda (also a Nobel laureate), Luis Cernuda, and Leon Benar6s. The lyrics of some songs are based on traditional sources, and the melodies and rhythms of all are representative of South American-indigenous and European­ immigrant cultures. The composers represented here will be familiar to some listeners but more than likely unfamiliar to most. Yet Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) is considered to be the greatest of all Argentine composers. Alberto Williams (1862-1952) is known as the father of the Nationalist School of composition in Argentina, and Carlos Lopez Buchardo (1881-1963) is a most influential composer and pedagogue after whom the national Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aries is named. Two composers who remain relatively unknown outside of South America, Abraham Jurafsky (1906- 1993) and Julio Perceval (1903-1963) are also represented in this project. A complete compact disc is devoted to the works of Carlos Guastavino. Known as the "Argentine Schubert", Guastavino has over 250 songs to his credit. Chiefly a composer for piano and voice, his recent death (October 2000) makes a recording of his works especially appropriate. This project also includes a written component, a supportive dissertation briefly describing the history of the Argentine art song and the lives and influences of the composers and poets represented in the studio recordings. The CD recordings are held in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland.

The role of children in the traditional religious house-blessing rite of Salpassa in north-eastern Spain

Salpassa denotes the blessing of houses, land, and other belongings, carried out during Easter week and Resurrection (Easter) Sunday in the Valencia–Catalonia linguistic region of north-eastern Spain. Although it is now remembered mostly as a consecrating ceremony or a religious rite, recent field research has shown that a playful element, carried out by children through their songs and other activities, was also an important aspect of the traditional Salpassa.

Eight traditional English carols /

Preface in English by the composer.