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The Effects of Technology on the Sight-Reading Achievement of Beginning Choir Students
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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
Crossfading Music Education: Connections between Secondary Students' In- and Out-of-School Music Experience
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Tobias, Evan S. – International Journal of Music Education, 2015
In this case study, the author investigated intersections of secondary students' musical engagement in a Songwriting and Technology Class (STC) and outside of school. The study traces the experiences of three individual participants and three participant groups (six embedded cases in total) in the creation, performance, recording, and production…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Secondary School Students, Music Activities
"Do I Have to Leave?" Beyond Linear Text: Struggling Readers' Motivation with an Innovative Musical Program
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Bennett, Susan V.; Calderone, Cynthia; Dedrick, Robert F.; Gunn, AnnMarie Alberton – Reading Improvement, 2015
In this mixed method research, we examined the effects of reading and singing software program (RSSP) as a reading intervention on struggling readers' reading achievement as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, the high stakes state test administered in the state of Florida, at one elementary school. Our team defined struggling…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Motivation, Reading Difficulties, Singing
Music Instruction Goes Digital
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Demski, Jennifer – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
Faced with meager enrollment in band, orchestra, and choir programs, schools are using digital technology to excite students about creating music on today's terms. This article discusses how music educators reinvent their profession by acknowledging and incorporating the way students interact with music today--digitally. Bill Evans, a music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Singing, Musical Instruments, Computer Software
A New Role for Music Technology: Enhancing Literacy
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Nardo, Rachel – General Music Today, 2009
General music teachers have a technology tool that not only helps students sing better, it helps them read better! Carry-a-Tune or Singing Coach--the technology that received a rave review from former "General Music Today" technology columnist Kirk Kassner in 2005--is now being offered in an enhanced version called TUNEin[TM] to READING.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Music Teachers, Singing
Using an Interactive Singing Software Program: A Comparative Study of Struggling Middle School Readers
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Biggs, Marie C.; Homan, Susan P.; Dedrick, Robert; Minick, Vanessa; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Psychology, 2008
Software that teaches users to sing in tune and in rhythm while providing real-time pitch tracking was used in a study of struggling middle school readers. The software, Carry-a-Tune (CAT) was originally developed to improve singing; however, since it involves a repeated reading format, we used it to determine its effect on comprehension and…
Descriptors: Matched Groups, Reading Comprehension, Singing, Reading Instruction