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Gardner, Robert D. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2020
There are many factors that influence the ability to play with accurate intonation, and this extending-the-discussion article provides contextual information and suggested teaching strategies for helping students develop such abilities. This Part 2 article describes a series of music activities and teaching strategies that can allow teachers to be…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Skill Development
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Simones, Lilian; Rodger, Matthew; Schroeder, Franziska – Cognition and Instruction, 2017
This study centers upon a piano learning and teaching environment in which beginners and intermediate piano students (N = 48) learning to perform a specific type of staccato were submitted to three different (group-exclusive) teaching conditions: "audio-only" demonstration of the musical task; observation of the teacher's action…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Observation
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West, Chad – Music Educators Journal, 2015
Early in my teaching career, my goals were to teach students to play their instruments beautifully and to help them correctly and independently interpret music notation. However, many of my students were missing the internal musicianship skills that enable high-level music-making. As we teach instrument technique and notation, we sometimes…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Music Theory, Creativity
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Loh, Christian Sebastian – Music Education Research, 2007
A musical note produced through the vibration of a single string is psychoacoustically simpler/purer than that produced via multiple-strings vibration. Does the psychoacoustics of instrument sound have any effect on learning outcomes in music instruction? This study investigated the effect of two psychoacoustically distinct instrument sounds on…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Auditory Training, Acoustics