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ERIC Number: EJ640090
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4294
Effects of Performer Attractiveness, Stage Behavior, and Dress on Evaluation of Children's Piano Performances.
Wapnick, Joel; Mazza, Jolan Kovacs; Darrow, Alice Ann
Journal of Research in Music Education, v48 n4 p323-35 Win 2000
Examines whether selected nonmusical attributes of 20 sixth-grade pianists would affect ratings of their performances by 123 musically trained evaluators. States that the visual group evaluators viewed a videotape, without the sound, rating the pianists on appropriateness of dress, stage behavior, and physical attractiveness. The audio and audiovisual group evaluators rated the musical performance quality. (CMK)
Descriptors: Applied Music, Audiotape Recordings, Clothing, Grade 6, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Music Education, Musicians, Physical Attractiveness, Student Behavior, Student Characteristics, Videotape Recordings
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Pianos