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Direct linkMartina Vasil – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this collective case study was to examine how four elementary music teachers (from different U.S. regions) integrated modern band into their curricula. Data included semi-structured interviews, videos, emails, and a researcher journal. Teachers integrated modern band to improve student "buy-in" and to gain instruments. All…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Integrated Curriculum, Music Education, Musicians
Frewen, Katherine Goins – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2010
The main purpose of this study was to examine the effects of familiarity with the sound of a melody on children's performance of the melody. Children in kindergarten through fourth grade (N = 97) with no previous formal instrumental instruction were taught to play a four-measure melody on a keyboard during an individual instruction session. Before…
Descriptors: Music, Familiarity, Aural Learning, Performance Factors
McPherson, Gary E. – Psychology of Music, 2005
This article reports on a three-year longitudinal study with 157 children in school grades 3 and 4 (aged between 7 and 9 years), who commenced learning an instrument in one of eight school music programmes. The children were administered tests at the end of each school year to assess their abilities to perform rehearsed music, sight-read, play…
Descriptors: Music Education, Play, Music, Musicians
