ERIC Number: EJ834886
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4294
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Relationships among Music Sight-Reading and Technical Proficiency, Spatial Visualization, and Aural Discrimination
Hayward, Carol M.; Gromko, Joyce Eastlund
Journal of Research in Music Education, v57 n1 p26-36 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of music sight-reading ability. The authors hypothesized that speed and accuracy of music sight-reading would be predicted by a combination of aural pattern discrimination, spatial-temporal reasoning, and technical proficiency. Participants (N = 70) were wind players in concert bands at a medium-sized university in the Midwest. In a regression analysis with music sight-reading as the criterion variable, aural-spatial patterning and technical proficiency explained 51% of the variance, F = 37.34, p less than 0.0001. These results support previous research that suggested that auditory, visual, spatial, and kinesthetic activations occur in coordination when wind players sight-read music notation. The results of the regression analysis suggested that although aural-spatial skills and technical proficiency skills were orthogonal, or separate, they both were essential to the complex task of sight-reading. (Contains 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Music Reading, Musicians, Vision, Visualization, Reading Ability, Spatial Ability, Sight Method, Predictor Variables, Auditory Discrimination, Visual Discrimination, Musical Instruments, College Students
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