The effects of electronic piano instruction on sixth-grade middle- school students' music-reading skills
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Ronald Bruce Moss (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Patricia Sink
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of electronic piano instruction on music-reading skills of sixth-grade general music students in a middle school in Forsyth County, North Carolina. Electronic piano instruction and vocal instruction were compared to determine the efficiency of either type of Instruction for increasing aural-visual pitch and rhythm discrimination skills. Students with prior outside-of-school piano experience were compared to students with no prior piano experience to determine which group would benefit from either instructional type. One middle-school general music specialist was chosen randomly from a list of twelve teachers currently teaching in the school district. At the beginning of the 1986-87 academic year, subjects (N=107) within previously scheduled general music classes were designated as either experimental electronic piano groups (N=58) or control vocal groups (N=49). The participating general music specialist taught all classes.
The effects of electronic piano instruction on sixth-grade middle- school students' music-reading skills
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1987
- Subjects
- Electronic piano $x Instruction and study
- Sight-reading (Music)