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Effects of Dark and Bright Timbral Instructions on the Production of Pitch and Timbre
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Springer, D. Gregory; Schlegel, Amanda L.; Lewis, Andrew J. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of timbral instructions on pitch and timbre production. High school (n = 28) and collegiate (n = 28) trumpeters played sustained tones at two octave levels (written C4 and C5) following three types of timbral instructions (dark-timbre, bright-timbre, or neutral instructions). Presentation orders…
Descriptors: Music Education, Intonation, Auditory Perception, Acoustics
Effects of Pitch Source on Pitch-Matching and Intonation Accuracy of Collegiate Singers
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Nápoles, Jessica; Springer, D. Gregory; Silvey, Brian A.; Adams, Kari – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2019
In this study, we examined the effects of multiple reference pitch sources on collegiate singers' accuracy in pitch-matching and intonation tasks. We also investigated which reference pitch source participants preferred and for what reasons. Participants (N = 99) sang a two-measure excerpt of "Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine" after listening…
Descriptors: College Students, Music Education, Singing, Intonation
Effects of Pre-Tuning Vocalization Behaviors on the Tuning Accuracy of College Instrumentalists
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Silvey, Brian A.; Nápoles, Jessica; Springer, D. Gregory – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two pre-tuning vocalization behaviors (humming and singing) on the tuning accuracy of woodwind and brass instrumentalists. Undergraduate collegiate musicians (N = 72) performed a sustained stimulus pitch (concert B-flat) while engaging in one of the two conditions or the control condition…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Music Education, Musicians, Singing
The Effect of Wearing Foam and Etymotic Earplugs on Classical Musicians' Pitch Perception
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MacLeod, Rebecca B.; Geringer, John M.; Miller, David S. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of wearing earplugs on classical musicians' pitch perception across three experimental conditions: no earplugs, foam earplugs, and Etymotic earplugs. Participants were graduate and undergraduate music majors attending a large school of music in the southeastern United States (N = 72).…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Music Education
In Tune or out of Tune: Are Different Instruments and Voice Heard Differently?
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Geringer, John M.; MacLeod, Rebecca B.; Sasanfar, Justine K. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2015
We studied music majors' perception of intonation in accompanied solo performances of trumpet, violin, and voice. We were interested in whether listeners would judge pitch deviations of equal magnitude in the three solo performances as equivalent in intonation. Participants were 150 graduate and undergraduate music majors drawn from two large…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Majors (Students), Musical Instruments
The Influence of Tonal and Atonal Contexts on Error Detection Accuracy
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Groulx, Timothy J. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2013
Music education students ("N" = 21) at a university in the southeastern United States took an error detection test that had been designed for this study to determine the effects of tonal contexts versus atonal contexts on the ability to detect performance errors. The investigator composed 16 melodies, 8 of which were tonal and 8 of which…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Accuracy, Music, Music Education