Although many adults take up or return to instrumental and vocal tuition every year, we know very little about how they experience it. As part of ongoing case study research, eight older learners with modest keyboard skills explored what their musical skills meant to them during conversation-based repertory grid interviews. The data were…

As an educational media, radio has a long and complex history in the United States, but its most extensive and important use in education took place during the School of the Air (SOA) movement. From approximately 1929 to 1975, commercial broadcast networks, state universities and departments or colleges of education, and local school boards…

As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…

Article described how a piece of appropriate music can change a group's mood thereby creating a better environment for learning. (Author/RK)

Author takes a broader look at ethnic musics and analyzes people's attitudes toward musics and the fundamental questions they ask. (Editor/RK)

Presented at the International Seminar on Experimental Research in Music Education (Reading, England, 1968). For fuller reports of this research, see "Journal of Research in Music Education, Volume 16 (Fall 1968 & Winter 1968).

Author dealt with two aspects of movement in music--rhythm and pitch--and described means of developing sensitivity to each. He did not simply theorize about sensitivity; he pinpointed specific techniques for bringing it about. (Editor/RK)

Points out the inherent problem that may keep teaching of twentieth-century music analysis from being effective. Since the students' frame of reference for music listening is usually "traditional" music practices, they are often unprepared to hear and analyze twentieth-century music. Suggests how to develop appropriate listening skills.…

Five studies investigated children's perception of scale and contour in melodies. It was found that young children can detect key transposition changes in familiar and unfamiliar melodies and are sensitive to melodic contour over transformations that preserve it, yet distinguish spontaneously between melodies with the same contour and different…

The difficulties surrounding any attempt to make a profit out of great music are discussed. (CK)

New trends in music will make this art more interesting and relevant to the students of today. (CK)