WHY “PIANO BASKETBALL: PLAY WITHOUT NOTATION"
Prepare like an athlete for the game of music notation! As a high school student, I mostly skipped gym class to help the music teacher....
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Patricia Bissell
- Apr 25, 2022
- 4 min
Brereton Wadsworth Bissell: 1937-2022
During his undergraduate years, he was a conscientious objector against the Vietnam War, was repeatedly arrested for protesting Jim Crow…
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Patricia Bissell
- Nov 4, 2021
- 4 min
In Search of Good Gymnastic Music
Updated: October 2021 Originally published: American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Division for Girls and...
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Patricia Bissell
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
A Tribute: Muriel Grossfeld
I was Muriel Grossfeld's pianist and arranger from 1968 to 1975 for women’s floor exercises. By exploring the many types of music in...
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Patricia Bissell
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
A Music Dispute: An Olympic Story
The room was still as each competing woman gymnast for the U.S. Munich Olympic team anxiously waited her turn in the trials at a Yale gym.
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Patricia Bissell
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
THE WHEEL TURNS
Like so many, this past year has thrown dozens of curve balls my way. Beyond the economic pinch, has been the pressure and isolation of...
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Kathryn Sherman, Ph.D.
- Jan 1, 2019
- 2 min
A Welcome Addition
Classroom Keyboard aids teachers in meeting the National Core Music Standards at the novice and intermediate levels…
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Luxuan Elly Wen
- Mar 1, 2018
- 1 min
Never an Easy Task
Learning to play keyboard and music theory would never be easy tasks.
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Patricia Bissell
- Feb 1, 2018
- 2 min
My Transpositions
I grew up in a rural community near Niagara Falls in New York before moving to a West Virginia town on the Ohio River…
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Patricia Bissell
- Jan 1, 2018
- 2 min
WHY KEYBOARD
Music has been shifting from a venerable acoustic tradition to a digital era that affects most music genres worldwide. Students in this...
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Patricia Bissell
- Jan 1, 2008
- 13 min
Improvising Attitudes
Originally Published: American Music Teacher I always enjoyed improvising on the piano as I was growing up in a small town near a farming...
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