American Music Teacher

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Articles in April-May 2005 issue of American Music Teacher

• The Art of Effective Piano Teaching
  by Kenneth T. Williams
• Bytes and bits
  by Gary L. Ingle
• Casio offers new PRIVIA digital piano
• Composer classification list
• West Central Division
  by Mary Ellen Moore
• Career development: Part II
  by Derek Mithaug
• Corporate members
• Looking back … moving forward
  by Phyllis I. Pieffer
• Singing coach software introduced
• New certification option available
• Southwest Division
  by Cheryl Pachak-Brooks
• Losing their voices: the struggle for a nation's anthem and its people
• Institutional members
• Gershwin Miniatures 1919-1934
  by Tony Caramia
• Alfred to purchase Warner Bros. Publications
• Breedlove Guitar announces new Revival Series
• Liability coverage available
• Foundation fund contributors
• Polly and the Piano
  by Anne L. Brady
• In Recital Throughout the Year
  by David Patterson
• Theodore Presser to distribute Vienna Urtext
• Boomophone and Boomwhackers garner several awards
• MTNA Board of Directors votes to support Inducement Act
• Professional Certification: the MTNA Professional Certification program's new Option 3. Administrative Verification
  by Pat Tuley
• Memorization in Piano Performance
  by Andrew Cooperstock
• Call for Orff-Schulwerk research poster sessions
• Passages
• State conference/convention dates
• Certification—the worth of it!
  by Lucinda Lear
• Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz
  by Richard A. Crosby
• Performance Practices in Late Twentieth Century Piano Music
  by Ellen Rennie Flint
• Dawn Upshaw joins Bard College Conservatory
• Essential skills for promoting a lifelong love of music and music making: developing the fundamental skill: healthful, injury-preventive technique: Part 2 of 4
  by Gail Berenson
• East Central Division
  by Mark Mrozinski
• 5 minutes with … Gary Amano
  by Arthur Houle
• The Art of the Piano: Its Performers, Literature, and Recordings, Revised and Expanded Third Edition
  by Jennifer Hayghe
• 15 Easy Folksong Arrangements for the Progressing Singer
  by Patrick K. Freer
• Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation donates instruments
• Facilitating flow experiences among musicians
  by Arvid J. Bloom
• Eastern Division
  by Millie Eben
• Polyphony: the rhythm of musical development, the music lesson and the academic year
  by Jane Magrath
• Rhythm: One on One, Dalcroze Activities in the Private Music Lesson
  by Sylvia Coats
• Winners of WAMSO Young Artists Competition announced
• Exploring new sounds: contemporary performance techniques for the pre-college student
  by Jessica Johnson
• Northwest Division
  by Kenneth Christensen
• Random Access: your upcoming summer "sabbatical"
  by George F. Litterst
• Communing with Music: Practicing the Art of Conscious Listening
  by Bruce Berr
• Leadership
• Prevention program for repetitive stress injury
• Bach's Goldberg Variations demystified
  by Cory Hall
• Southern Division
  by Diane Higgins
• It's <begin strikethrough>none of<end strikethrough> all your business: ignorance is not bliss
  by Beth Gigante Klingenstein
• 101 Ideas for Piano Group Class
  by Victoria Johnson
• My first piano teacher Gertrud Nettl
  by Paul Stewart
• Kawai introduces decade series music books
• Boy bands over bach
  by Victor Sandman
• South Central Division
  by Ruth Pitts
• Music Education advocacy starts at home
  by Mary Luehrsen