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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"music aptitude"”.
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Kindergarten Students' tonal Pattern Creativity and Developmental Music Aptitude
… pattern creativity achievement and developmental music aptitude among kindergarten students? Twenty-one students of one intact kindergarten class participated in the study. Students were administered both sub-tests of the Primary Measures of Music Audiation. The investigator developed a tonal …
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Predictive ability of music aptitude and improvisation readiness on the quality of student improvisations
… State University. Department of Music Education, 2005
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A Comparative Study of the Personality Adjustment, Mental Maturity, and Music Aptitude of the Three Ethnic Groups Represented at Mt. Edgecumbe School, Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska
… School in intelligence, personality, and musical talent to discover any basic differences that might exist between the three groups in the categories listed.</p>
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Source activity and tonotopic organization of the auditory cortex in musicians and non-musicians
… in the auditory cortex of nine professional musicians, nine amateur musicians and nine non-musicians. The frequency of the tones ranged from 100 to 5600 Hz. On average, the evoked source activity of the primary auditory cortex occuring at 19-30 ms was 87 larger for musicians than for …
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The Equity and Effectiveness of *Policies and Procedures Instrumental Music Instructors Deem Essential to Program Development for Beginning Percussionists
… that samples of public school instrumental music instructors (n = 5) brought to their own programs which impacted student participation (n = 24) in beginning band as a percussionist, and to address issues of equity. Specifically, did piano experience yield significant differences in rhythmic …
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A Descriptive Study of the Musical Abilities of Three- and Four-Year-Old Children
… of three- and four-year-old children to selected musical stimuli. The range of developmental music aptitude (PMMA), ability on two music discrimination tests, attitude toward music, and home background of three- and four-year-old children were investigated. Differences between the two age groups …
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An investigation of the construct validity and factor structure of the primary measures of music audiation through structural equation modeling
The study compared models of tonal music aptitude as measured by Edwin E. Gordon's Primary Measures of Music Education (PMMA). The models were derived from Gordon's theories and research, as well as recent research in music cognition and auditory imagery. Three models were examined: (1) A …
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The comparison of two rhythm syllable systems on the meter recognition abilities of second and third grade students
… was to examine the interaction effects of music aptitude and rhythm syllable systems.</p> <p>The sample for this study included 107 students in second and third grade general music classes. Classes remained intact and were randomly assigned to the control group, the time-based syllable …
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The effects of computer music learning activities on the tonal aptitudes of Canadian students
… of learning more about the process of assessing music ability, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of music learning on music aptitude scores. The problem of this study is to determine if there is a difference between pretest-posttest tonal aptitude scores, as measured by …
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The relationship between melody and prosody: perception and production capabilities of musicians and non-musicians
Music and language are two interconnected acoustic and cognitive phenomena shared by human beings. Among their similarities are their variety of intonations and inflections resulting in melody and prosody, respectively. Previous research has demonstrated that musicians are more successful than …