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Item Bass Guitar Anatomy Game(Merlot, 2004-01) Janke, ThomasThe Bass Parts Anatomy game is a simple interactive drag and drop interface that helps students to correctly indentify the various components of an electric bass guitar.Item Moritz Moszkowski’s Quinze Études de Virtuosité pour Piano, OP. 72: Intermediate Technical Etudes and Their Value in Solving Pianistic Problems(2014-10) Choe, EJThis book focuses on the pedagogical approach to technical problem-solving found in the Quinze études de virtuositè pour piano, Op. 72, by Moritz Moszkowski (1852–1925). Extremely popular as a pianist in his day, Moszkowski was also well known as a composer, teacher, and conductor. His Études were chosen because as a composer, in exploring multiple aspects of piano technique, he never loses sight of the poetic content. One of the problems of the hundreds of technical exercises similar to those of the Clementi and Czerny schools is that they are not inspired as pieces of music. No one would ever program them for public performance. Of course, there are other effective etudes that are also great pieces of music. To name a few, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Scriabin each wrote a couple of dozen, Debussy wrote twelve, Prokofiev, Bartók, and Stravinsky about four each. Most of these etudes are quite complex and more difficult for an aspiring student. Because of the complexity of the music alongside the technical challenge, these are beyond the capability of pre-college and early undergraduate students.Item Technology in the Piano Lab: Band-in-a-Box—An Interview with E. J. Choe(Sage Publications, http://gmt.sagepub.com/, 2010-04) Choe, EJ; Nardo, RachelE.J. Choe is Director of the Music Academy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. This community-based music school annually serves more than 200 children aged 5- to 18 years in after-school music classes and private lessons.Item Power Up Pedagogy with Technology: iPads in Music(2013) Choe, EJTechnology is having an enormous impact on music instruction today, and we must train our students accordingly. To be an educator in today’s teaching profession, we must of course have taken numerous courses in methodology, pedagogy, and education case studies. But most educators make the mistake of teaching the way they themselves have been taught. This will not work with today’s students, who are savvy with technology and therefore learn differently from the way we were taught. This paper gives a snapshot of one application of the new technology to music teaching in the classroom: how iPads can be used to enhance the results for students in Theory, Aural Skills, and Composition.Item Revitalization Plan for Character Education through Education in Music(2014-10) Cho, Sung-gi; Min, Kyung-Hoon; Choe, EJItem Music Therapy Is Associated With Family Perception of More Spiritual Support and Decreased Breathing Problems in Cancer Patients Receiving Hospice Care(Elsevier, 2015-08) Burns, Debra S.; Perkins, Susan M.; Tong, Yan; Hilliard, Russell E.; Cripe, Larry D.; Department of Music & Arts Technology, IUPUIContext Music therapy is a common discretionary service offered within hospice; however, there are critical gaps in understanding the effects of music therapy on hospice quality indicators, such as family satisfaction with care. Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine whether music therapy affected family perception of patients' symptoms and family satisfaction with hospice care. Methods This was a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of electronic medical records from 10,534 cancer patients cared for between 2006 and 2010 by a large national hospice. Logistic regression was used to estimate the effect of music therapy using propensity scores to adjust for non-random assignment. Results Overall, those receiving music therapy had higher odds of being female, having longer lengths of stay, and receiving more services other than music therapy, and lower odds of being married/partnered or receiving home care. Family satisfaction data were available for 1495 (14%) and were more likely available if the patient received music therapy (16% vs. 12%, P < 0.01). There were no differences in patient pain, anxiety, or overall satisfaction with care between those receiving music therapy vs. those not. Patients who received music therapy were more likely to report discussions about spirituality (odds ratio [OR] = 1.59, P = 0.01), had marginally less trouble breathing (OR = 0.77, P = 0.06), and were marginally more likely to receive the right amount of spiritual support (OR = 1.59, P = 0.06). Conclusion Music therapy was associated with perceptions of meaningful spiritual support and less trouble breathing. The results provide preliminary data for a prospective trial to optimize music therapy interventions for integration into clinical practice.Item Music Therapy Clinical Practice in Hospice: Differences Between Home and Nursing Home Delivery(Oxford, 2015) Liu, Xiaodi; Burns, Debra S.; Stump, Timothy E.; Unroe, Kathleen T.; Department of Music and Arts Technology, School of Engineering and TechnologyBackground: Hospice music therapy is delivered in both homes and nursing homes (NH). No studies to date have explored differences in music therapy delivery between home and NH hospice patients. Objective: To compare music therapy referral reasons and delivery for hospice patients living in NH versus home. Methods: A retrospective, electronic medical record review was conducted from a large U.S. hospice of patients receiving music therapy between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2010. Results: Among the 4,804 patients, 2,930 lived in an NH and 1,847 patients lived at home. Compared to home, NH hospice patients were more likely to be female, older, unmarried, and Caucasian. For home hospice patients, the top referral reasons were patient/family emotional and spiritual support, quality of life, and isolation. The most frequent referral reasons for NH hospice patients were isolation, quality of life, and patient/family emotional and spiritual support. Differences in music therapy delivery depended mainly on patients’ primary diagnosis and location of care. Conclusions: Results suggest differences in referral reasons and delivery based on an interaction between location of care and patient characteristics. Delivery differences are likely a result of individualized assessment and care plans developed by the music therapist and other interdisciplinary team members to address the unique needs of the patient. Thus, it is important to have professionally trained music therapists assess and provide tailored music-based interventions for patients with different referral reasons and personal characteristics. This study also supports staffing decisions based on patient need rather than average daily census.Item Relative Sound Localization for Sources in a Haphazard Speaker Array(2016) Anderson, Neal; Smith, Benjamin D.; Department of Music and Arts Technology, School of Engineering and TechnologyA rapidly deployable, easy to use method of automatically configuring multi-channel audio systems is described. Compensating for non-ideal speaker positioning is a problem seen in immersive audio-visual art installations, home theater surround sound setups, and live concerts. Manual configuration requires expertise and time, while automatic methods promise to reduce these costs, enabling quick and easy setup and operation. Ideally the system should outperform a human in aural sound source localization. A naïve method is proposed and paired software is evaluated aiming to cut down on setup time, use readily available hardware, and enable satisfactory multi-channel spatialization and sound-source localization.Item Big Tent: A Portable Immersive Intermedia Environment(2016) Smith, Benjamin D.; Cox, Robin; Department of Music and Arts Technology, School of Engineering and TechnologyBig Tent, a large scale portable environment for 360 degree immersive video and audio artistic presentation and research, is described and initial experiences are reported. Unlike other fully-surround environments of considerable size, Big Tent may be easily transported and setup in any space with adequate foot print, allowing immersive, interactive content to be brought to non-typical audiences and environments. Construction and implementation of Big Tent focused on maximizing portability by minimizing setup and tear down time, crew requirements, maintenance costs, and transport costs. A variety of different performance and installation events are discussed, exploring the possibilities Big Tent presents to contemporary multi-media artistic creation.Item Electro Contra: Innovation for Tradition(2016) Smith, Benjamin D.; Department of Music and Arts Technology, School of Engineering and TechnologyTechnological interventions in American traditional fiddle and dance music are presented and specific design and development problems are considered. As folk dance communities and events explore the notion of incorporating modern electronic dance music into the experience certain inherent problems are exposed. Maintaining strict musical forms that are required for the traditional choreography, maintaining the fluidity and control of live bands, and interacting with the other performers require new software tools. Initial solutions developed in Ableton Live are described and show a successful method of solving these challenges.