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Before Farkas: Preparatory Instructor for French Horn (1937) on the Single...

I am not sure what the exact background was of authors E. C. Moore and A. O. Sieg but they certainly were practical band...

The Single F Horn Dare, a challenge to horn teachers

We need more horn players in the schools. I would offer readers a challenge in two parts. The first part is a general challenge to...

Nudge Theory

A method for guiding students on their learning path. In When Humans Need a Nudge Toward Rationality author Jeff Sommer reports on an interesting principal...

A Systems View of Music Performance Education (I)

Could a technology model work for a music performance education? Last summer I worked in a temporary position developing a web site "in-house" for an...

On Applying for a College Horn Teaching Position

Besides performing, a lot of advanced horn students have dreams of teaching the horn full time at the college level. In The Musician’s Way...

Followup to Systems View of Music Education

More on preparing for the real world. Since posting a blog on applying an electronics education model to music performance education, I have found several...

A Systems View of Music Performance Education (II)

Continuing from Part I. While working as a temp at a technology education center this summer, I worked with their goals and rationale of their...