Accidentals on Purpose: Perfect Your Lever or Pedal Technique

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This article discusses strategies for harpists to improve their lever and pedal technique.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dear Facebook

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This book chapter is written in the form of a break-up letter from the author to the social networking website, Facebook. It discusses social networking, technological changes, urbanization, globalization, media technology, and philosophical ideas about society.
Date: 2010
Creator: Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Find Your Voice: Beautiful Tone is Possible for Everyone

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This article discusses strategies for harpists to improve their tone.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Harp by Heart: Playing by Heart Does Not Need to be a Heart-Stopping Experience

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This article discusses strategies memorizing music.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Practice Takes Practice: Maximize Your Investment in Practice Time

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This article discusses time management strategies for practice sessions.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Smart-Reading

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This article discusses strategies to improve sight-reading musical works.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cracking the Code: Using Tonal Theory to Solve the Puzzle Between the Notes

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This article discusses strategies for harpists to use music theory for learning and memorizing music.
Date: 2011
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Playing in Theory: Incorporating Music Theory Into Your Harp Playing

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This article discusses basic principles of music theory that can incorporated into learning a musical work.
Date: 2011
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Revisiting the Nineteenth-Century Poe Controversies

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This article reviews the book "Poe in His Own time: A Biographical Chronicle of his Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates," edited by Benjamin F. Fisher, published by the University of Iowa Press, 2010.
Date: 2011
Creator: Martin, John
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library

Marriage as Feminist Utopia: Riccoboni's 'Lettre de Madame la marquise d'Artigues à sa soeur' (1785)

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Article on Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's "Lettre de Madame la marquise d'Artigues à sa soeur" from 1785 and marriage as a feminist utopia.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Kaplan, Marijn S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Berlin's History in Context: The Foreign Ministry and the Spreebogen Complex in the Context of the Architectural Debates

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Book chapter discussing Berlin, Germany's history in context and the Foreign Ministry and Spreebogen Complex in the context of the architectural debates.
Date: October 1, 2011
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Just Roll With It: Exploring the Array of Arpeggiated Chords

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This article discusses different styles for playing arpeggiated chords.
Date: 2012
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mind Games: Getting Out of Your Head

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This article discusses strategies for developing focus during a performance.
Date: 2012
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Put Some Bliss in Your Gliss: Mastering Our Signature Sound

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This article discusses the glissando for harp.
Date: 2012
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

A snare in every human path: "Tamerlane" and the Paternal Scapegoat

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This book chapter examines Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Tamerlane" through Poe's reimagination of the artist-as-scapegoat figure as a viable alternative for preserving artistic integrity in the face of paternal and literary authority.
Date: September 5, 2013
Creator: Martin, John
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reset the Standard

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This article discusses how harpists can incorporate alternative pieces into their standard repertoire.
Date: 2014
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Schoenberg's Punk Rocker: The Radical Transformations of Dika Newlin

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This article focuses on Dika Newlin (1923-2006), an eccentric individual who was a musical prodigy in her early life and deemed a teenaged protégé of Arnold Schoenberg. Dika took an interest in punk rock later in life, and even joined a punk rock band. The author seeks to understand Dika's transition from protégé to punk rocker by describing some of her various phases as scholar, pianist, composer, and militant iconoclast. This paper was presented at the Music Library Association Conference in Denton, TX, on October 3, 2014.
Date: 2014
Creator: Arnold, Donna M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Work Out Stage Stress

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This article discusses how exercise can mitigate stage fright.
Date: 2014
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Path to Loyalty Among Theater Patrons: The Importance of Interaction and a Sense of Brand Community

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This article studies to what extent a theater serves as a focal point for community development, and whether that sense of community leads to more loyal patrons who are more likely to attends hows and donate to the theater.
Date: 2015
Creator: Shaomian, Armen & Heere, Bob
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas

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This book chapter focuses on the use of ereaders as a learning tool to motivate and engage students, support content learning, and promote literacy development across content areas.
Date: 2015
Creator: Fang, Zhihui; Eutsler, Lauren; Coatoam Chapman, Suzanne & Qi, Yang
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Balance Points: Achieving Balance in Your Body to Make Better Music

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This article discusses the need for harpists to be properly balanced when playing.
Date: 2016
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Charting Your Course: Explore Your Musical Landscape and Elevate Your Performance

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This article discusses how to engage with the musical structure of a work to enhance a musician's performance.
Date: 2016
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating Music in Silence: How to Harvest the White Space Between the Notes

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This article discusses the use of white space between notes to enhance a harpist's technical skills.
Date: 2016
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fire Up Your Warm Ups: Find the Right Recipe to Get Your Body Primed to Practice

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This article discusses the reasons why warm ups are necessary, and includes variations for harpists.
Date: 2016
Creator: Haefner, Jaymee
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library