Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education, Volume II, Number 5

The six articles presented in this journal are: I. Research in Action: The Transfer of Research in Music and Music Education into the Classroom by Jack R. Stephenson; II. Programmed Instruction and Music Education by Douglas L. Turpin; III. Music Education and the Blind by Joan Thief Gagnepain; IV. Improved Teaching Through the Use of the Videotaperecorder by Paul D. Rodabaugh; V. Development of a Methodology for Transcribing the Organ Music of Bach for Band by James M. Burk; and VI. Humanities, Integrated Arts, and Aesthetic Education by William D. Gaver. Dissertation Abstracts listed in chapter VII are as follows: A Basic Method of Group Instruction for Beginning Church Organists by Sister Dorothy Venhouse; An Investigation of the Vibrating Clarinet Reed Utilizing High Speed Cinematography by Roger Dean Coppenbarger; A Study of Interviewing Practices and Techniques Utilized in the Screening of Prospective Music Personnel in Departments of Music in Institutions of Higher Education by Joseph M. Hegstad; A Study of Rehearsal Techniques for Symphonic Band by William N. Vereen, Jr.; A Study of the Application of Creativity in the Teaching of Secondary School Music by Elwood H. Brown; Music Departments of Colleges or Universities and Public Schools--Interrelationships by Jesse Laurence Peterson; and Serial Compositions for Band by Robert Lowell Casey. (LS)