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    Original Études for the Developing Conductor
    Caldwell, Jonathan; Shapiro, Derek (Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts in association with Virginia Tech Publishing, 2023-04-28)

    Original Études for the Developing Conductor is a collection of supplemental études designed to enhance contemporary conducting pedagogy by amplifying the voices of composers from historically excluded groups. Each étude was commissioned from and composed by a living composer, the majority of whom are woman-identifying composers and/or composers of color. Each étude also addresses multiple specific pedagogical goals common to all conducting classrooms. Conducting textbooks commonly include musical examples to expose student conductors to various musical challenges and situations. However, due to the relative ease of using only music from the public domain, most examples found in commercially published books are excerpts of larger works composed by deceased cisgender white men of European descent. Often, this music bears little relation to a significant portion of the music contemporary students engage with and perform. These excerpts also tend to be quite short (i.e., less than a minute) and do not create cohesive, self-contained musical arcs. Are you reviewing or adopting this book for a course?
    Instructors adopting or reviewing this text are encouraged to record their use by filling out this form. This helps the book's sponsors to understand this open textbook's impact. This book was awarded Highly Commended for ALPSP's 2023 Impact Award.
    2023 ALPSP Award Winners.
    A video [4:56] introduction to the book is available at: https://youtu.be/xcbWwbXkYV4. How to access this book
    The main landing page for this book is https://doi.org/10.21061/conducting. This text is available in multiple formats including: 1. High resolution PDF of scores and parts (linked on the left side of your screen) 2. Low resolution PDF of scores and parts (linked on the left side of your screen) 3. High resolution PDF of scores only (linked on the left side of your screen) 4. Low resolution PDF of scores only (linked on the left side of your screen) 5. A spiral-bound softcover print version (scores only). Click here to order a print copy. 6. MIDI realizations (MP4s) are available via a YouTube playlist or in the zip file (linked on the left side of your screen) 7. Files containing the score and parts for each étude (linked on the left side of your screen). These enable easy printing and use in apps for accessibility and annotation such as MuseScore. 8. A version with alt text embedded for each étude and part. [coming soon] ISBNs
    ISBN (PDF - scores and parts): 978-1-957213-51-4
    ISBN (PDF - scores only): 978-1-957213-52-1
    ISBN (print - scores only): 978-1-957213-53-8
    Click here to order a print copy Features of the book - The chart "Musical Opportunities by Étude" differentiates the études by tempo, style, meter, and potential pedagogical goals. - The PDF version of this book is designed to be easily navigable. Hyperlinks and QR codes are provided throughout the text to help you move from the Table of Contents into composer biographies, scores, parts, and from parts back to the Table of Contents, Score, or to the main landing page for the resource. - The clickable "Jump To" menu on each composer biography page and first page of every score links to the table of contents or transposed parts in C, B-Flat, F, E-Flat, and alto clef. Instead of scrolling, use the links found in the footers of each transposed part. - For print users, a spiral-bound, scores-only, print-on-demand version is available for order here. Book pages may also be self-printed. The table of contents has all the page numbers you need, and you can still use the QR codes, URLs, or the DOI at the bottom of every page to find your way back to the complete book. - MIDI realizations are provided for all études on this page, and via a YouTube playlist. - Each étude’s composer biography page includes the composer’s biography and photo, a link to the composer’s website, information regarding length, meter, tempo, and style of the etude, potential pedagogical goals, the composer’s description of the Étude, and an audio realization (linked to YouTube). - The text and images in the PDF versions of this text are tagged structurally and include alternative text, which allows for machine readability. The music in the PDF versions of this text is machine readable through outside tools such as MuseScore. Featured composers 1. Arias, Spencer: The Jester 2. Biedenbender, David: Swirl 3. Botti, Susan: Vespers (Walking in Beauty) 4. Bozone, Judy: Lyrah 5. Browne, Matthew: Saunter 6. Browne, Matthew: Tarantella 7. Bumgarner, Trevor: Choppy Frontier 8. Chen, Yi: Ban (Beat) 9. Davids, Brent Michael: Native American Étude 10. Flagello, Gala: Bulletproof 11. Grafe, Max: Fanfare With Afterimages 12. Herryman Rodriguez, Ivette: Tumbao Pesante 13. Jolley, Jennifer: Legend of the Moonlight Above 14. Joyce, Molly: Offbeat 15. Lamb, Alexis: Addolcimento (Sweetly, Softening) 16. Lambrecht, Lynnsey: Festive Fugue 17. Li, Shuying: Étude for Conductors 18. Lorenz, Ricardo: Estudio a Cuatro Voces 19. McCune, Sally Lamb: Pony Hollow Trail 20. Purrington, Hilary: Keepsake 21. Rowe, Will: Loose Canon 22. Sherwood-Gabrielson, Christopher: Last Waltz in Paris 23. Specht, Elena: Fortress 24. Tann, Hilary: Moonrise 25. Zare, Roger: Reverie About the editors
    Jonathan Caldwell, Lead Editor
    Jonathan Caldwell is the director of bands and assistant professor of conducting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. Prior to his appointment at UNCG, Caldwell held positions at Virginia Tech, the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and Garner Magnet High School (Garner, NC). His writing has been published in the Journal of Band Research and the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series. He has given presentations for the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the College Band Directors National Association, the Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik (IGEB), and at music educator conferences in North Carolina and Virginia. Derek Shapiro, Lead Editor
    Derek Shapiro is the director of bands and assistant professor of music at Virginia Tech, where he conducts the Virginia Tech Wind Ensemble and teaches conducting. Prior to his appointment at Virginia Tech, he held positions at Eastern Michigan University, Georgia Southern University, and Cypress Creek High School. A strong advocate for music education with nine years of public school experience, Shapiro has taught at the middle school and high school levels. He has been published in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series and has presented at clinics in Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, and Virginia. Suggested citation
    Caldwell, Jonathan and Shapiro, Derek (2023). Original Études for the Developing Conductor. Blacksburg: Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts. https://doi.org/10.21061/conducting. Licensed with CC BY NC-SA 4.0. Report an error
    View errata Accessibility statement
    Virginia Tech is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The Open Education Initiative is committed to continuous improvement regarding accessibility. The text, images, and links in the PDF versions of this text are tagged structurally and include alternative text, which allows for machine readability. Links to external websites are provided as QR codes. Audio recordings of each score are available as MIDI realizations via YouTube. Alternative text for scores and parts is scheduled to be available in late 2023. Please contact openeducation@vt.edu if you are a person with a disability and have suggestions to make this book more accessible. Special thanks
    This project was made possible in part by financial support from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech Collaborative Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro University Libraries’ Textbook Affordability Program (TAP) Grants, and additional funding, technical, and publishing support from the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. Disclaimer
    This work may contain components (e.g., composer headshots) not covered by the CC BY NC-SA license. Every effort has been made to clearly identify these components but ultimately it is your responsibility to independently evaluate the copyright status of any work or component part of a work you use in light of your intended use.
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    Voices of Virginia: An Auditory Primary Source Reader
    Taylor, Jessica; Stewart, Emily (Virginia Tech, 2020-01-21)

    Voices of Virginia pulls together stories from oral history collections from across decades and archives to create an all-audio source companion for Virginia’s high school and college students. The "album" is only two hours long, but contains dozens of short oral histories from eyewitnesses to key moments in American history, from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s. The excerpts are downloadable, accessible by smartphone, and accompanied by a transcript. Audio clips are also available on Soundcloud. You’ll also find a brief introduction to each narrator, historical context adapted from experts at Encyclopedia Virginia, American Yawp, and Public Domain sources, and helpful classroom tools like discussion questions, activities, and lesson plans that fit into both the Virginia high school and college U.S. History curriculum. By following the larger national story with narratives from across the Commonwealth, Voices of Virginia grounds students in how history guides and is guided by everyday people and their experiences. Voices of Virginia is a winner of the 2020 Mason Multi-Media Award from the Oral History Association. Over twenty archives across Virginia and beyond have generously donated segments, and granted permission for their oral histories to be reproduced and publicly shared under a CC BY NC SA 4.0 license, which ensures that the content remains free to use and re-purpose for all listeners. These archives include: - African American Historical Society of Portsmouth - Amherst Glebe Arts Response - Archives of Appalachia (Eastern Tennessee State University) - Cape Charles Rosenwald Initiative - Center for Documentary Studies and the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Duke University) - Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History - Chuck Mauro, private collection (Herndon, VA) - Clarence Dunnaville (American Civil War Museum) - Desegregation of Virginia Education Project (Old Dominion University) - Digital Library of Appalachia (Appalachian College Association) - Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center - Friends of the Rappahannock - George Mason University - Grayson County Historical Society - Greene County Historical Society - Mountain Home Center (Bland County Public Schools) - Old Dominion University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives - Oral History Archives at Columbia (Columbia University) - Roanoke Public Library (Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project) - Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (University of Florida) - Southern Foodways Alliance (University of Mississippi) This material is aligned to the History and Social Science Standards for Virginia Public Schools - March 2015. The collection was curated by Jessica Taylor, Ph.D. with Emily Stewart. Feedback regarding this collection is welcome at https://bit.ly/VoicesOfVirginia This work was made possible in part by a grant from University Libraries at Virginia Tech’s Open Education Initiative. About the editors
    Jessica Taylor is the Director of Public History and an Assistant Professor of Early American and Oral History in the History Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) where she has been a faculty member since 2018. Jessica completed her Ph.D. in History at the University of Florida and her undergraduate and master's studies at the College of William and Mary. Her research and work focuses on the history of social change in Virginia and the American South, from the colonial period to the present day. Dr. Taylor collaborates with preservation and historical groups across the South to collect and share oral histories, teaches Public History and Native History classes, and is the author of multiple journal articles about historical memory in the South. Her manuscript, Certaine Boundes: Borders and Movement in the Native Chesapeake, explores the lives of Indians and non-elites in seventeenth-century Virginia. Beyond writing, she works to provide opportunities for and be a better teacher to every kind of student. She is always looking for hands-on experiences and conversations about activism, history, archaeology, preservation, museums, and liberal arts education.
    Emily Stewart is a student in Virginia Tech's History MA program. She will earn her Master's degree in May, 2020. Emily completed her undergraduate studies at Virginia Tech where she majored in History. Her current research focuses on Virginia educational history in the twentieth century. Her master's thesis focuses on the relationship between standardization and segregation of Virginia public education in the early twentieth century. Throughout her studies at Virginia Tech, Emily has always been interested in oral histories. The Voices of Virginia project presented her with an ideal opportunity to further cultivate her interest in the field of oral and public history.