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Petty, Colleen; Henry, Michele L. – Texas Music Education Research, 2014
The ultimate goal for many choral directors is to develop independent musicians within the ensemble. The ability to sing a series of pitches and rhythms at first sight is widely understood to be a fundamental building block of independent musicianship. Yet sight-reading is not simply a holistic skill. There are separate components of…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Education, Acoustics, Music Reading
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Miyamoto, Karen A. – Research and Issues in Music Education, 2005
A pretest-posttest experimental design was utilized to determine the efficacy of the Yuba Method on inaccurate elementary singers. Testing of pitch accuracy was analyzed using the Sona-Speech Model 3600 software program. Inaccurate singers (N=168) from a population of 320 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students, were divided into three subgroups…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Singing, Outcomes of Treatment, Experimental Groups