The purpose of the study was to investigate conflicts in the perceptions of band directors, band parents, band students, and selected school personnel regarding the role and scope of their respective band programs. The problems were to examine the relationships among these four groups in terms of selective perception, perceptual constancy, and polarization. Questionnaires were developed in order to survey the senior public high schools in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In addition to demographic data, the questionnaires included perceptions about public performances, marching, concert, and jazz bands; contests and festivals; and other band related activities which might be desirable in a band program. The questionnaires concluded with opportunities for open-ended comments and suggestions about the survey instrument and the band program. Statistical computations included one-way analysis of variance, chi-square test, frequency counts, and cross-tabulations. Qualitative analyses and reports of interviews helped to clarify and interpret all statistical findings.

It is the purpose of this thesis to list and evaluate the published materials for junior high school band that the director may have a comprehensive knowledge of materials adapted to that level.

Within this document, the writer hopes to present a thorough study of the various methods and materials which are available for the beginning, intermediate, and advanced band classes of the Goose Creek Independent School District, Goose Creek, Texas, taking into consideration the organization of the school system as it exists at the present time.

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"The majority of the material for this paper comes from my own observation of our program and its growth in Jackson County. Jackson County is a rural county in Northwest Florida. There are a total of eight high schools located in the county, five of them having instrumental programs. This survey is an over-view of the instrumental program in Jackson County as it is now in the year 1958"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1958." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: H. W. Dean, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 24).

"The intent of this paper is to devise a foundation for the reorganization of the Andrew Jackson High School Band program toward a more effective administration, utilizing the democratic principles of education. A more complete and effective handbook will be devised, which will be based upon democratic principles. Material to be incorporated will be taken from several current Florida band manuals, which seems most likely to meet the needs of the Andrew Jackson High School bands"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1953." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music Education." / Advisor: Robert L. Briggs, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references.

American college football features an enormous amount of music woven into the fabric of the event, with selections accompanying approximately two-thirds of a game’s plays. Musical selections are controlled by a number of forces, including audio and video technicians, university marketing departments, financial sponsors, and wind bands. These blend together in a complex design that offers audible and visual stimulation to the audience during the game’s pauses. The music chosen for performance in these moments frequently communicates meaning beyond entertainment value. Selections reinforce the game’s emotional drive, cue celebrations, direct specific audience actions, and prompt behaviors that can directly impact the game. Beyond this, music is performed to buttress the successes of the home team, and to downplay its failures. As this process develops over the course of the game, the musical selections construct a sonic narrative that comments on the game’s action, enhancing or suppressing audience members’ emotional reactions to the events on-field, and informing their understanding of the game’s developments. By preparing for and responding to in-game situations, music creates a coherent narrative out of football’s unpredictable events. This project demonstrates the use of musical narrative in American college football via close consideration of case studies of games representing five of the most prominent college athletic conferences, the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big 10, the Big 12, the Pac 12, and the Southeastern Conference. These sources include interviews with college football’s musical agents, including sound operators, band directors, and producers, as well as documentation of the games’ on-field developments and the music that accompanies them. Finally, this project utilizes of musical narrative as a new means of critically considering the power lines of race and gender in college football culture.

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This research, is initiated to systematically study the microstructure of AISI 4340 steel prior to impact, after impact and after post-impact annealing to determine the effect of the pre-deformation microstructure on the nucleation and initiation of ASBs, and the mechanism of evolution of ASBs during impact. This study used state-of-the-art microstructural characterization techniques such as the FIB and STEM/HRTEM to reveal that initial microstructural inhomogeneity produces nucleation sites for the initiation of ASBs during impact. It was observed that double misfit interfaces and boundary layers, formed around precipitated carbides (interface between reinforcements and matrix), increased the volume fraction of dislocation sources within the pre-impact specimens. It is demonstrated that the intersection of an activated dislocation source with the direction of maximum shear (regions of stress concentrations) within the specimens during impact, is a necessary condition for the points of intersection to act as possible sites for the nucleation and initiation of ASB depending on the rate of dislocation generation, local strain and strain rate. In addition, the structure that evolves after strain localization starts out with elongation of the grains in the shear direction with the initiation of random and transverse dislocation boundaries along the elongated grains. The elongated grains break along the initiated dislocation boundaries as strain/strain rate increases resulting in the creation of smaller elongated-broken grains and nanograins. Boundary refinement of the broken grains occurring through grain rotation and adiabatic heating results in the evolution of refined grains, subgrains and nanograins. The presence of elongated grains, broken grains, refined grains, subgrains and nanograins within the evolved shear band structures demonstrate that the local deformation is dependent on the imposed local strain and strain rate and that these mechanisms occur concurrently during impact. The results obtained, which are specific to the behavior of BCC ferritic Pearlitic hardenable steels, lead to the conclusion that the evolution of ASBs is a simultaneous layering of microstructures initially driven by dislocations which produce the final structures observed in the shear bands at the end of passage of the stress wave. / February 2015

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