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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"sight-reading"”.
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Examining Middle School String Students' Sight Reading Processes
… sixth-grade string students while individually sight-reading over the course of 11 weeks. The students were presented with a five lesson unit on sight-reading that focused on different musical elements and presented the students with strategies and techniques to be used as a class and during …
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The Parameters of Eye Movement in Vocal Music Reading (sight-Reading; Saccades)
… perceptual processing of graduate music students reading melodies of varying levels of notational complexity. Six parameters of eye movement were measured using an SRI Eytracker: number of progressive and regressive fixations, progressive and regressive fixation durations, and progressive and …
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Exploring memorisation and sight-reading and their inter-relationship in undergraduate piano students
For musicians, the ability to sight-read and memorise are skills required for ease of learning and performing. The competitive nature of the classical performing world requires of solo performers, especially pianists, to play flawlessly from memory and to be able to sight-read any genre of sheet …
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PiaNote: A Sight-Reading Program That Algorithmically Generates Music Based on Human Performance
<p>Sight-reading is the act of performing a piece of music at first sight. This can be a difficult task to master, because it requires extensive knowledge of music theory, practice, quick thinking, and most importantly, a wide variety of musical material. A musician can only effectively sight-read …
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The Effect of Performance Condition on Second-Grade Student’s Rhythmic Accuracy While Sight-Reading
… to examine rhythmic performance accuracy while sightreading rhythms using either rhythmic speaking, body percussion, or instruments. A secondary purpose of this study was to study possible relationships between rhythmic error types (tempo or rhythmic accuracy) in each of these performance …
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Contributions of Selected Music Skills to Music Sight Reading Achievement and Rehearsed Reading Achievement
… and their relationships to two kinds of music reading, sight-reading and rehearsed reading, determined. Subjects were 123 wind instrumentalists in sixth and seventh grade bands in two New York state public schools. Multiple regression analysis was used to build models from the selected music …
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Multiple-Percussion Notation: The Effectiveness of Three Types of Staff Notation on Sight -Reading Ability
… evidence that varying notation systems affect sight-reading accuracy primarily on large multiple-percussion setups. Subjects performed excerpts three times in each of the three systems of staff notation on two setups---one medium (seven instruments) and one large (thirteen instruments). Of the …
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The Effect Of Colored Accent Marks In Music Notation During The Sight-Reading Process For High School And College Wind Instrumentalists
… this study was to test new ways of improving the sight-reading process in music. This experimental study has been split into two identical studies completed in different settings. The first study utilized 56 volunteer wind instrumentalists from a high school band as subjects, while the second …
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A suggestopaedia-based method of guitar instruction
Sight-reading is generally regarded by guitar teachers as a problem area of instruction. The aim of this thesis is to address the problem through a fourfold approach: 1. defining sight-reading in terms of its historical context ; 2. providing a rationale, and proposing an alternative method, for …
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An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Music Theory Resources for the Middle and High School Choral Classroom with Alignment to Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards
… overall musicianship – thus, strengthening sight-reading skills– further leading to more accurate sight reading, using less rehearsal time, and the option of learning more, or even more technically challenging, literature. Additionally, developing independent musicianship skills encourages …
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The effective use of manipulatives and color coding in the achievement and application of music reading skills of third grade recorder students
… study was to discover the positive effect on sight-reading ability of 100 third grade recorder students reading music notation when color-coding was applied to notes and manipulatives were used in note value instruction.</p> <p>The problem was to compare effects on the learning and application …
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Fostering Creative and Critical Thinking in a Beginning Instrumental Music Class
… included: (a) playing a prepared piece, (b) sight-reading, (c) playing-by-ear, and (d) improvising. Students from the experimental group generally performed better than students in the control groups on the playing-by-ear and improvisation sections of the posttest. In their improvisation, the …
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Behavioral Analysis of Directors of High-Performing Versus Low-Performing High School Bands
… each day devoted to skill development/warm-up, sight-reading, performance approximations, and repertoire. Directors of high-performing bands used prescriptive rehearsal planning based on explicit desired student performance outcomes. Rehearsals of directors of low-performing bands were less …
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Cooperative learning methods for group piano : the development of a teaching guide
… of harmonization, transposition, improvisation, sight-reading, accompanying, playing by ear, and technique. The guide was created using established cooperative learning methods and was intended to be used in conjunction with other resources common to collegiate group piano classes. The majority …
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Legibility of Musical Scores and Parallels with Language Reading
… literature within experimental psychology on the reading of natural language texts, I have undertaken a series of experiments on the sight-reading of musical scores that have shown that spacing of information, the structuring of the musical discourse, and the predictability of design in a score …
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The solo pianist : a critical analysis of concepts of musical giftedness
… such as acuity of aural perception and sight-reading accuracy, as the primary measures and predictors of high level musical performance skills.
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An investigation of rhythm reading practices in Texas middle school choirs
… purpose of this study was to investigate rhythm reading instructional practices used in the middle school choral classroom. The study included an assessment of the amount of time spent on rhythm instruction per week, an examination of choral sight reading method books and pedagogical techniques …
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A CLARINETIST'S GUIDE TO THE AUDITION PROCESS AND LITERATURE FOR THE PREMIER UNITED STATES SERVICE BANDS
… desirable traits of candidates, the role of sight-reading in the audition, and the relationship of each band's process to its mission. In order to compile a list of significant wind literature including clarinet, a written survey was distributed to a cross-section of conductors and …
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A case study of professional musicians and their perceptions of the impact of aural learning experiences in developing musicianship
… such as performing music through score reading, sight reading, score analysis, or notation-based music theory. This study aims to provide a perspective on the complex experiences that shape musical development specifically through the lens of FAEs, describe the nature of those …
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