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Karrick, Brant – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1998
Studies intonation trends of wind instrumentalists with regard to harmonic intervals, including factors such as tuning system, location, interval type, direction of deviation from equal temperament, and group. Compares the performance of two groups, professionals and advanced students. Reports findings and discusses similarities to and differences…
Descriptors: Harmony (Music), Instrumentation and Orchestration, Intonation, Music
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Rohwer, Debbie – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1998
Investigates the effect of movement instruction on beginning instrumentalists' steady beat perception, synchronization, and performance. Finds that a group receiving movement instruction did not perform significantly better than a control group at perception but did perform significantly better at synchronization and performance. Notes low,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instrumentation and Orchestration, Intermediate Grades, Movement Education
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Gholson, Sylvia A. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1998
Attempts to identify and characterize patterns of expert teaching practice as they occur in context, and to confirm these patterns through processes of verification. Observes teacher Dorothy DeLay in her studio, documenting her teaching through notes, audiotapes, and contextual artifacts. Discusses DeLay's theory of proximal positioning in…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Higher Education, Instrumentation and Orchestration, Master Teachers
Hall, John – 1999
Instrument instruction provided by local authorities has contributed to musical activities in primary and secondary schools for many years. A national survey asked the following questions: How much musical instrumental instruction goes on now in Scottish schools?; Are the numbers of pupils and instructors rising or falling?; How much do the local…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instrumentation and Orchestration, Music Education
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Sheldon, Deborah A. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1998
Examines the effects of contextual sight-singing and ear training on pitch and rhythm error detection abilities among undergraduate instrumental music education majors. Shows that additional training produced better error detection, particularly with rhythm errors and in one-part examples. Maintains that differences attributable to texture were…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Higher Education, Instrumentation and Orchestration, Listening Skills
Hartley, Linda A. – Contributions to Music Education, 1996
Examines the relationship between attitude toward band participation, beginning instruction grade, and grade-level organization (split or unified) by surveying seventh-grade students from 45 schools. Finds significant interactions among the three variables as well as with the type of instrument played. Relates the findings to previous research on…
Descriptors: Bands (Music), Grade 7, Instructional Program Divisions, Instrumentation and Orchestration
Greco, Vincent – 1997
This report describes a program for intensifying student motivation to increase their weekly instrumental practice time. The targeted population was second and third-year instrumental music students in grades 5-6. The students were drawn from two different elementary schools within the same district in an upper-middle class community adjacent to a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Fine Arts, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Byo, James L. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1997
Examines graduate and undergraduate music majors' ability to detect pitch and rhythm errors in various settings of textually contrasting musical excerpts. Students listened to intentionally marred excerpts and attempted to identify the errors. Analysis of variance revealed that the predictor variables did not function independently of each other.…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests
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Siebenaler, Dennis J. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1997
Attempts to identify and describe the characteristics of effective teaching in the piano studio. Videotaped lessons with independent piano teachers and students were evaluated according to specific behavioral measures (general approval, music talk) and separately by pedagogical measures. Includes statistical and tabular data. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Experience, Educational Research