Daniel Abrahams
Scholarship
Abrahams, D. (2006). Differentiating instruction in the choral rehearsal: Strategies for choral conductors in urban schools. In Carol Frierson-Campbell. (Ed.), Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform. (Vol.1, pp.109-116). Langham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
“Two Chanukah Settings for Brass” Hal Leonard, #993154, 2004.
Abrahams, F., & Abrahams, D. (2010). The impact of reciprocal teaching on the development of musical understanding in high school student members of performing ensembles: An action research. Visions of Research in Music Education, 15(1). Retrieved from http://www-usr.rider.edu/~vrme/v15n1/visions/
Abrahams, F., & Abrahams, D. (2012). The impact of reciprocal teaching on the development of musical understanding in high school student members of performing ensembles: An action research. In K. Swanwick (Ed.), Music Education: Major Themes in Education (Vol. 3). London: Routledge.
Abrahams, F., & John, R. (2015). Planning instruction in music: Writing objectives, assessments, and lesson plans to engage artistic processes. Chicago, IL: GIA. Invited lesson plan. Lesson plan title: “Call me Maybe: Arranging a pop song using informal music practice”.
Abrahams, F., & Abrahams, D. (2015). The child as apprentice. In G. McPherson (Ed.) The child as musician: A handbook of musical development (pp. 538-555). London: Oxford University Press.
Abrahams, D. (2015). Reciprocal teaching in the music classroom. Segue, 37(1). 8-9.
Abrahams, D. (2016). Technology beat: Middle school music. Segue, 37(2). 8-9.
Work in Progress
Invited Chapter for the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy, edited by F. Abrahams & P. Head, Oxford University Press. Working chapter title: "Fostering Personal and Music Agency: Considering the Conductor".
Invited Chapter for the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy, edited by F. Abrahams & P. Head, Oxford University Press. Working chapter title: "Choral Conducting and teh Construction of Meaning" (co-authored with Frank Abrahams).
PRESENTATIONS
Fostering Musical and Personal Agency in Beginning Conducting. Poster Session at the Missouri Music Educators Conference, Lake of the Ozarks, MO, January 29, 2016 .
Fostering Musical and Personal Agency in Beginning Conducting. Poster Session at the Michigan Music Educators Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, January 22, 201.
Fostering Musical and Personal Agency in Beginning Conducting (2015). Poster Session at the Louisiana Music Educators Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, November 22, 2015 .
Fostering Musical and Personal Agency in Beginning Conducting (2015). Poster Session at the Arkansas Music Educators Conference, Hot Springs, AR., October 6, 2015.
“Fostering musical creativity with technology in the elementary music classroom.” PMEA Song Fest, North Star High School, Boswell, PA, May 8, 2015.
“Intervieweing for the first job.” IUP PCMEA Workshop, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, March 3, 2015.
“Fostering personal and musical agency in beginning conductors.” Poster Session at the NJMEA conference, North Brunswick, NJ, February 21, 2015.
“Fostering musical creativity with technology.” IUP Crimson Hawk Invitational Choral Festival, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, September 30, 2015.
“Fostering personal and musical agency in beginning conductors.” Poster Session at the NAfME Music Research and Teacher Education conference, St. Louis, MO, April 10, 2014.
“iPads in K-12 Education.” Center for Applied Research in Musical Understanding professional development event for music educators, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, February 2, 2013.
“Empowering musical understanding with ideas from reciprocal teaching.” 29th World Conference of the International Society for Music Education, Beijing, China, August 4, 2010. (Authored and presented with Frank Abrahams, Westminster Choir College of Rider University)
“Going green: The application of informal music learning strategies in high school choral and instrumental ensembles.” 29th World Conference of the International Society for Music Education, Beijing, China, August 2, 2010. (Authored and presented with Frank
Abrahams, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Frank Heuser, University of Southern California, and Andrew Goodrich, Boston University)
“The impact of reciprocal teaching on the development of musical imagination, musical intellect and musical creativity in high school student members of performing ensembles: An action research.” 2nd European Conference on Developmental Psychology of Music:
London, England, September 10-12, 2008. (Authored and presented with Frank Abrahams)
“The impact of reciprocal teaching on the development of musical imagination, musical intellect and musical creativity in high school student members of performing ensembles: An action research.” Weeklong seminar for graduate students presented (with Frank Abrahams) at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2008.
“Differentiating instruction and integrating language literacy (reading) strategies into general music and ensemble rehearsals.” Continuing education seminar for public school teachers, presented with Frank Abrahams at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ, in 2006 and 2008.
“Critical pedagogy for music education: chorus, orchestra and band.” Weeklong seminar for music teachers and community musicians presented (with Frank Abrahams) at the Conservatorio Brasileiro de Musica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 11-15, 2007.
“Interviewing for the first job,” MENC Biennial National Inservice Conference, Kansas City, April 20, 2006. (Presented with Frank Abrahams)
“Differentiating instruction in the band and choral rehearsal.” 4th International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 13, 2006. (Authored and presented with Frank Abrahams)
“All for one isn’t always one for all: Differentiating instruction in the high school band and orchestra.” Nebraska Music Educators Conference, Lincoln, November 20, 2005.
“Graphic organizers, reciprocal teaching, and think-pair-share in the band and orchestra rehearsal.” Omaha Public Schools Curriculum Day, Omaha, October 6, 2005.
“Ideas from differentiated instruction.” Continuing education seminar for public school teachers, presented with Frank Abrahams at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ, April 2, 2005.
“The composer meets the conductor.” MENC Biennial National Inservice Conference, Minneapolis, April 16, 2004. (Presented with Frank Abrahams and Joel Philips, Westminster Choir College)
“Surviving the first year: What they didn’t teach you in college.” New York School Music Association Annual Conference, Kiamesha Lake, March 31, 1995. (Presented with Frank Abrahams)
Guest Conducting
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Symphonic Winds 2015
Omaha Public Schools 56th Annual All-City Music Festival Middle School Orchestra 2006
Blair Area Concert Band 2006
Omaha Tuba Christmas 2005
Omaha Public Schools 52nd Annual All-City Music Festival Middle School Band 2002
Omaha Brass Ensemble 1999
Nebraska Wind Symphony 1999
University of Nebraska at Omaha University Band 1999
University of Nebraska at Omaha Wind Ensemble 1999
Grants
Omaha Schools Foundation 2004-2005
Omaha William Jennings Bryan High School, Omaha. “Increasing and sustaining instrumental music student achievement in an urban
environment: A collaborative project between Bryan Senior High School and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.”
Omaha Schools Foundation 1999-2001
Omaha William Jennings Bryan High School, Omaha. “Increasing and sustaining instrumental music student achievement in an urban
environment: A collaborative project between South High School, Bryan Senior High School, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.”
