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Arthur, P.; McPhee, E.; Blom, D. – Music Education Research, 2020
Music sight-reading is a valuable skill that eludes and frustrates many musicians. Techniques for teaching sight-reading are varied, with teachers mostly falling back on personal experience or simply hoping that, somehow, the penny will drop for the student. This study reports on a survey of the music learning and playing habits of expert and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Reading, Musical Instruments, Teaching Methods
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Araújo, Marcos V.; Hein, Christopher F. – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
This study explored advanced musicians' dispositions to flow in musical practice. A total of 168 classically trained musicians answered a questionnaire assessing their proneness for flow experience during musical practice and associations between flow and demographic factors, practice routines and musical instruments. Dispositions to flow in…
Descriptors: Music, Musicians, Gender Differences, Age Differences
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Springer, D. Gregory; Gooding, Lori F. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine preservice music educators' attitudes toward popular music in the music classroom. On a survey instrument designed by the investigators, participants ("N" = 82) rated (a) the effectiveness of popular music in addressing the National Standards for Music Education, (b) the appropriateness of popular…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Music