Download or read book The Effects of Learning Tonal Harmonic Function on the Sight Singing Skill of High School Students written by Victoria J. Furby and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Sight singing has long been a challenge for performing choral ensembles. Sight singing is defined as the ability to reproduce music symbols vocally at first sight by converting them into actual pitch sounds. Using the movable do system has provided many teachers with a method with which to teach sight singing in a choral setting. However, although many students have success with the movable do system there are still many strides to make in the teaching of sight singing. Prior research has suggested that students perform sight singing exercises more successfully with the addition of harmonic accompaniment to traditional movable do exercises. It has been hypothesized that knowledge of tonal harmonic function would improve students chances of sight singing success. This experiment was designed to teach twenty-six high school students using two different methods of instruction. Both groups received traditional sight singing instruction using movable do solfege and harmonic accompaniment. The treatment group received additional instruction in the form of tonal harmonic theory. Students were randomly assigned to each group and performed a pretest consisting of eight measures written in common time. Students then received ten weeks of instruction, consisting of two lessons a week for twenty minutes each lesson. At the conclusion of the instruction students performed a posttest similar to the pretest. After the experiment was concluded, two independent evaluators judged the pretests and posttests. Evaluators listened to tapes of the students' pretest and posttest performances and judged the number of pitches sung correctly by each student. There was no significant difference between groups on either the pretest or the posttest. However, when the groups were combined, there was a significant difference between the pretest and posttest performances.
Download or read book The Effects of Vocal Improvisation on Kod ly based Sight Singing Technique in High School Choral Music Students written by Brandon Michael Nonnemaker and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music literacy is a key component in a fully enriching music education. Nearly all pedagogical approaches emphasize music reading and writing. However, sight singing, a specialized component of music literacy, is a skill that remains a challenge for many young singers. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of vocal improvisation on Kod©Łly-based sight singing instruction for high school choral music students. Based on results of the AMMA (Advanced Measures of Music Audiation, Gordon, 1989), participants (n = 52) were assigned to an experimental group (n = 27) or control group (n = 25). Both groups received sight singing instruction using the Kod©Łly method. The instructional strategies associated with this method included (a) tonic solfa, (b) Curwen hand signs, and (c) Chev©♭ rhythm syllables. The experimental group, however, participated in researcher-compiled vocal improvisation activities for 10-15 minutes of the 30-minute lessons. Improvisation activities included (a) learning selected repertoire by rote, (b) sequentially developing a vocabulary of tonal syllables and rhythmic syllables, (c) improvising with voice and body percussion tonic, dominant, subdominant, and submediant tonal patterns within the context of major and minor tonalities, and (d) improvising with voice and body percussion macrobeat, microbeat, division, elongation, and rest rhythm patterns within the context of duple meter. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to determine if there were statistically significant differences between sight-singing performance pre-assessment and post-assessment, as well as pre-experiment and post-experiment AMMA administration. The Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to determine significant difference between control and experimental groups. Results suggest that regular sight singing instruction using the Kod©Łly method benefited sight singing achievement (pitch accuracy, rhythmic precision, intonation, tempo). Incorporating vocal improvisation helps students build rhythm and tonal vocabulary and aurally explore the functions of harmonic structure. These practices seem to benefit overall music audiation, particularly rhythmic audiation. Survey findings suggest students' perception of their sight singing ability and of their ability to "hear music internally" (audiate) are positively impacted by vocal improvisation practices.
Download or read book MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning written by Richard Colwell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning, Volume 2: Applications brings together the best and most current research on best practice for music learning, focusing squarely on the profession's empirical and conceptual knowledge of how students gain competence in music at various ages and in different contexts. The collection of chapters, written by the foremost figures active in the field, addresses a range of best practices for approaching current and important areas in the field, including cognition and perception, music listening, vocal/choral learning, and the needs of special learners. The book's companion volume, Strategies, provides the solid theoretical framework and extensive research upon which these practices stand. Throughout both volumes in this essential set, focus is placed on the musical knowledge and musical skills needed to perform, create, understand, reflect on, enjoy, value, and respond to music. A key point of emphasis rests on the relationship between music learning and finding meaning in music, and as music technology plays an increasingly important role in learning today, chapters move beyond exclusively formal classroom instruction into other forms of systematic learning and informal instruction. Either individually or paired with its companion Volume 1: Strategies, this indispensable overview of this growing area of inquiry will appeal to students and scholars in Music Education, as well as front-line music educators in the classroom.
Download or read book The Effect of Music Learning Theory on Sight singing Ability of Middle School Students written by Nicole M. Kielczewski and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the study was to determine if tonal and rhythm pattern instruction and ear training exercises improve middle school students' sight-singing ability. Participants (N=73) were designated to a control or experimental group based on class schedule. Both groups received sight-singing instruction using sight-singing examples accompanied by the piano. Additionally, the experimental group was given tonal and rhythm pattern instruction, and ear training activities based on Music Learning Theory. Solfege syllables and hand signs designed by Zoltan Kodaly and John Curwen were also incorporated in sight-singing instruction for the experimental group to help with pitch accuracy. Each participant sang the assigned sight-singing test twice with resulting audio samples of 219 pre-test and post-test recordings. The assessment procedures for both tests were identical and the measurement tool's Cronbach's Alpha reliability was .88. Evaluation was based on the abilities to sing in tune, sing correct rhythms, and sing correct solfege syllables. Results indicate that after two weeks of instruction, both groups improved their sight-singing ability. The pre-test mean results shows that the control group scored significantly lower than the experimental group. Due to that significance, the post-test improvements in the experimental group did not surpass the gains in the control groups mean scores. Possible time restrictions of the study may have inhibited the improvement of the experimental group's scores.
Download or read book The Effects on Sight Singing of Voice Class Instruction Utilizing Variants of Traditional Vocalises written by Eunice Ann Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning written by Music Educators National Conference (U.S.) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring chapters by the world's foremost scholars in music education and cognition, this handbook is a convenient collection of current research on music teaching and learning. This comprehensive work includes sections on arts advocacy, music and medicine, teacher education, and studio instruction, among other subjects, making it an essential reference for music education programs. The original Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, published in 1992 with the sponsorship of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), was hailed as "a welcome addition to the literature on music education because it serves to provide definition and unity to a broad and complex field" (Choice). This new companion volume, again with the sponsorship of MENC, explores the significant changes in music and arts education that have taken place in the last decade. Notably, several chapters now incorporate insights from other fields to shed light on multi-cultural music education, gender issues in music education, and non-musical outcomes of music education. Other chapters offer practical information on maintaining musicians' health, training music teachers, and evaluating music education programs. Philosophical issues, such as musical cognition, the philosophy of research theory, curriculum, and educating musically, are also explored in relationship to policy issues. In addition to surveying the literature, each chapter considers the significance of the research and provides suggestions for future study.Covering a broad range of topics and addressing the issues of music education at all age levels, from early childhood to motivation and self-regulation, this handbook is an invaluable resource for music teachers, researchers, and scholars.
Download or read book An Experimental Study Comparing Programed Instruction with Classroom Teaching of Sight Singing written by Betty Mae Kanable and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of the Implementation of Daily Sight reading Training on Sight reading Audition Scores written by David R. Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This quantitative study was conducted using both a ninth and tenth grade treble choir at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The classes were assigned per their age to these elective courses. The study, from pre-test to post-test lasted eight weeks, during the first semester. After a pre-test using an amended version of the IMEA model of sight-singing examples was graded, the ninth grade, or experimental group, was presented with daily practice of tonal skills with a particular emphasis on sight-singing. The tenth grade, or control group, was only presented with tonal skills as they pertained to literature specific to their classroom work. This study hypothesized that when daily ear-training and sight-singing practices were used in class, improvements in students' sight-singing audition scores would be statistically significant. Data indicated that at the end of the treatment period, subjects receiving daily sight-singing training had significantly improved their abilities to intone pitch and delineate rhythms at sight when compared with those students who had not received said training. After eight weeks of training, students in the experimental group improved their mean score from 26.96 to 34.46 points of 60 available (significance measured at P(T
Download or read book measuring ability in sight singing written by earl k. billbrand and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sight Singing Through Melodic Analysis written by Leland D. Bland and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to the study of sight singing and a valuable aid to ear training instruction. Although the book draws upon theoretical concepts it is easy to read and to follow. Readers learn to distinguish between structural and decorative tones within horizontal triad outlines, recognize melodic shapes associated with triad outlines in various positions, and interpret overall melodic shapes within entire phrase. Material is arranged logically for learning basic tonal relationships, phrases, and common shapes and motions in melodies. Chapters contain s short explanatory section, exercises in the melodic pattern to be studied, melodic analysis, and melodies for sight singing.
Download or read book A Study of the Group Method of Measurement of Sight singing written by Raymond Mylar Mosher and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Construction and Validation of a Method for the Measurement of the Sight singing Abilities of High School and College Students written by William Rodney Scofield and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of Teachers Opinions Regarding the Problems of Teaching Sight Singing written by Omar F. Bose and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Melodic Dictation and Sight Singing on Music Reading Achievement written by Harold Thomas Karl and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sight singing written by Robert Lynn Glor and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of research-designed high school choral sight-sing exercises that include researcher-designed basic keyboard skills exercises. Fifteen weeks of SATB and SSA sight-singing exercises and basic keyboard skill exercises based on Georgia Music Educators Association Large Group Performance Evaluation guidelines were created and implemented with high school choral students (N= 66). An experimental group (N= 43) received instruction with sight-singing exercises and basic keyboard exercises. A control group (N= 23) received instruction in sight-singing. Students self-administered Vocal Sight-Reading Inventory (VSRI) Form A created by Henry (1999). Following the 15 weeks researcher-designed sight-singing exercises instruction, students self-administered Form B of the VSRI by Henry (1999). The researcher calculated a t-test to determine that the groups were fundamentally the same (t = 1.975, p = .053). Pre-test and post-test mean scores were compared using ANOVA. A significant effect was found for the difference in methods of the experimental and control groups (F (n,64) = 5.230, p = .026). A follow-up t-test was used to examine the mean scores of the post-test. Significance was established at
Download or read book The Effect of Instruction with Song related Tonal Patterns on Second Graders Pitch Reading Accuracy written by James L. Reifinger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second grade students (N = 193) in three urban elementary schools in Pennsylvania received sightsinging instruction for 15 sessions of general music classes, each 25 minutes in length. The children read notation and sang four-note tonal patterns, with one new pattern presented each session and all previously learned patterns practiced at the beginning and end of each session. During each session a new song with an activity was learned by rote and sung. In the 16th session all 15 patterns were reviewed. Independent variables included instructional treatment, school, and sex. Variations in instructional treatment included singing the patterns with solfege or loo , and singing a related or unrelated song. Related songs used the pattern as the first four notes of the song. The following four treatment conditions were randomly assigned to classrooms: (1) solfege/related song; (2) solfege/unrelated song; (3) loo /related song; (4) loo /unrelated song. The children were individually tested at three points in time on their ability to read and sing the patterns: a pretest prior to instruction; a posttest after the 16 sessions; and a retention test that followed an additional eight weeks of no sightsinging instruction. For each test, the children sightsang patterns learned in class (familiar patterns) and 10 patterns which had not been practiced (unfamiliar patterns) to assess the ability to transfer learning. Sightsinging performance was evaluated for pitch and contour accuracy. Also examined were correlations of sightsinging scores with pitch matching, tonal discrimination using the IMMA, school ability using the Otis-Lennon Test, and reading fluency using Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS). The instruction resulted in a significant improvement in sightsinging achievement. Nonsignificant differences from posttest to retention test for all treatment groups indicated that students' performance in sightsinging remained statistically stable. Significant improvement in singing unfamiliar patterns indicated that skills transferred. Treatment effectiveness differed according to pattern type. For familiar patterns, contour accuracy scores were significantly higher in the solfege condition. For unfamiliar patterns, however, contour accuracy scores were significantly higher in the loo condition. Learning related songs during instruction had no significant effect on students' ability to sightsing the patterns. Pitch matching correlated highly with sightsinging note accuracy, but moderately with contour accuracy. Sightsinging scores correlated moderately with IMMA and school ability scores.
Download or read book The Effects of Two Methods for Teaching Sight singing on Junior High School Choir Students Sight singing Achievement written by Denise M. Bricher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
