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Rebecca B. MacLeod

Rebecca MacLeod is associate professor of music education, specializing in string education. She earned her degrees from Duquesne University (BSME) and Florida State University (MME and PhD). Prior to her position at UNCG, she taught elementary, middle school, and high school orchestra in the public schools of Pennsylvania . She has published in the Journal of Research in Music Education and the Florida Music Educator's Journal and her research on at-risk string programs, vibrato technique, instrument preference, and music perception has been presented at the Music Educator's National Conference, American String Teacher's National Conference and the Florida Music Educator's State Conference, respectively. She is a frequent guest conductor and clinician in various high schools and colleges in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Georgia, and Illinois.

There are 6 included publications by Rebecca B. MacLeod :

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
A descriptive study of high school and university students’ focus of attention in fast and slow orchestral excerpts 2009 176 The purpose of this study was to investigate listener discrimination of orchestral performances and to ascertain focus of listener attention to technical and expressive music elements of those performances. High School (n = 84) and University (n = 84...
The effect of articulation style on perception of modulated tempo 2006 157 We investigated the effect of legato and staccato articulation styles on the perception of modulated tempos. Ninety music majors served as participants. Listeners heard music examples that had been selected from two pieces, each of which included sta...
The effect of articulation style on perception of tempo in solo violin playing 2007 207 We investigated effects of legato, staccato and pizzicato articulation styles on the perception of modulated tempos. Seventy-two music majors served as participants. Two solo violin excerpts were chosen with contrasting rhythmic rates and were record...
Influences of dynamic level and pitch register on the vibrato rates and widths of violin and viola players 2008 272 The purpose of this study was to investigate possible influences of pitch register and dynamic level on vibrato rates and widths of university and high school violin and viola players. Analysis showed that pitch register significantly affected the vi...
Initial movement and continuity of vibrato among high school and university string players 2005 127 The purpose of the present study was to investigate aspects of vibrato performance among high school and university string players. The main questions were to determine whether students consistently initiate vibrato in an upward or downward direction...
Perceived pitch of violin and cello vibrato tones among music majors 2009 378 The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived pitch of string vibrato tones. The authors used recordings of acoustic instruments (cello and violin) to provide both vibrato stimulus tones and the nonvibrato tones that listeners adjusted t...