Recent Faculty Activity
Debbie Rohwer has been invited to write a book chapter on community music and also help edit a book on research. In 2009, she published articles in the International Journal of Community Music, Making Music Magazine, Texas Music Education Research, Journal of Music Teacher Education, and Medical Problems of Performing Artists.
Alan McClung’s recent publications include a textbook: Movable Tonic, A Sequenced Sight-Singing Method (Teacher Edition and Student Edition) with GIA Publications and a Journal of Research in Music Education article, “Sight-Singing Scores of High School Choristers with Extensive Training in Movable Solfège Syllables and Curwen Hand Signs.”
Don Taylor published “Support Structures Contributing to Instrument Choice and Achievement Among Texas All-State Male Flutists” in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education.”
Nathan Kruse published a monograph earlier this year entitled "Andragogy and Music: Canadian and American Models of Music Learning among Adults.”
In July 2009, Donna Emmanuel gave a presentation at the International Sociology of Music Education Conference in Limerick, Ireland. The paper was titled Exploring Identity: Knowing Self Before Knowing Others.
Warren Henry will be presenting “Enabling International and Multicultural ‘Intelligence’ Through CMS” at the 2009 College Music Society Conference.
Alan McClung’s recent music conference presentations include sessions on sight-singing pedagogy at VISTA (San Diego, CA), Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA), Eastern Division of MENC, Southwestern Division of MENC, and at the publisher’s request, the ACDA National Convention in Oklahoma City. An additionally presentation, entitled Identifying the Singing Range of the Early Adolescent Voice, was presented at SWMENC.
Nathan Kruse conducted six middle school and high school band clinics this spring in Indiana, Texas, and Maui, Hawaii.
Debbie Rohwer presented one paper in Hawaii, another in Orlando, and 3 in San Antonio. She will be hosting the Music and Lifelong Learning Conference in October 2009, where her senior citizen band will be performing, and she will be presenting a research session.
Don Taylorand Nathan Kruse served on the faculty of UNT's Grandparents University in which elementary students and their grandparents attended UNT as music majors. Activities included instrument exploration, singing, and drumming.
Warren Henry received Michigan State University’s 2009 College of Music Distinguished Alumni Award.
Donna Emmanuel and Warren Henry presented a paper at the Research in Music Education Conference at St. John’s University, Exeter, England. The presentation was titled Discovering Identity through Reflection: The Use of Intercultural Competence in an Elementary Methods Class with a Study Abroad Component. They also co-presented sessions, focused on the Division of Music Education’s study abroad trips to the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria and the Kodály Pedagogical Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary.
Don Taylor presented a session at the 2009 National Flute Association convention on stress management for performing musicians entitled, "Calming the Mind, Calming the Body."
Alan McClung’s select, 75 voice Concert Choir continues to provide a variety of campus concerts as well as performances at high schools located throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Upcoming guest conducting events include the TMEA Region 3 (Houston ,TX) MS/JR Honor Choir.
Warren Henry continues his collaborative work with the Eastman School of Music. Each year, his graduate College Music Teaching class holds a videoconference with a similar class that is offered at Eastman. In addition to the students from UNT and Eastman, the videoconference includes Susan Conkling, Associate Professor of Music Education, Dr. Jamal Rossi, Senior Associate Dean of the Eastman School, and Dean James Scott from UNT.
Nathan Kruse will be presenting three research sessions this September at the Society for Music Teacher Education Symposium at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Session topics include undergraduate music education student identity development (co-presenter with Dr. Don Taylor), school-university partnerships (panelist), and doctoral student mentorship (panelist).
Don Taylor presented a session at the 2009 Texas Music Educators convention entitled, “Learning to Love Research."
In April, 2009, Donna Emmanuel and the Federation of North Texas Universities and Colleges hosted the 3rd Biennial Symposium for Research in Music Teaching and Learning, attended by graduate students from across the United States.
Alan McClung has been named the new Director of the Cambiata Institute of America for Early Adolescent Vocal Music, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the promulgation of the Cambiata Concept, a comprehensive philosophy and methodology for teaching vocal music to early-adolescents, with special emphasis placed on the unique qualities of the male changing voice. The Cambiata Institute of America for Early Adolescent Vocal Music was formally established at UNT in 2009.
Nathan Kruse presented a session in July on the traditions and customs of Appalachian mountain music at the 6th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education in Limerick, Ireland.
In July 2009 Donna Emmanuel hosted the 2nd annual Mariachi Summer Camp, funded by a Hispanic and Global Initiatives Grant. Middle and high school students attended the four day camp, staying in dorms on campus. Members of Mariachi Aguilas taught instrumental and vocal sectionals and everyone performed in a joint concert.