An investigation of the critical judgments of undergraduate music students in response to recorded music performances

The problem was to determine the extent to which critical judgments of undergraduate music students conform to the judgments of recognized music critics. Published reviews identified 177 critically recognized inferior and superior recorded performances of Classical and Romantic compositions of instrumental, keyboard, or choral/vocal music from which 100 excerpts were selected. Faculty validation of 52 of these excerpts provided 30 excerpts for a pilot study to explore testing formats and conditions within which critical judgments of students could be obtained. For the main phase of the research, subjects (N = 204) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and three other state universities using the Critical Judgments Performance Evaluation (CJPE) provided overall ratings of performance quality of 28 excerpts, their confidence in their ratings, and judgments on 13 performance characteristics.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Music Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Schleff, Jeffrey Scott

Contributors dc:contributor

• Colwell, Richard J.

• Fine Arts
• Music
• Education, Music

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Schleff, Jeffrey Scott

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9011005
(UMI)AAI9011005

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23277