A compilation of sonatas for clarinet and Piano. An annotated listing of concertos is scheduled to appear in the Winter 1972 issue. (CB)

Contemporary brass instruments and today's playing techniques can be quite misleading if treated as evidence, or even as vestiges of pre-eighteenth century techniques and performance concepts. (Author)

Purpose of the study was to design, implement, and evaluate an experimental series of sequentially structured lessons in listening to selected contemporary art music, and to discover the effect of a fourteen-week program on the musical preferences of seventh-grade students who participated. (Author)

A question crucial to this research and to the teacher of music appreciation is whether directed listening to one kind of music will bring about significant musical growth that would be reflected in the students' ability to make aesthetic judgments about other music. (Author)

Objective of this study was to determine subjects' reliability in rating randomly played ascending and descending melodic intervals within the octave on the basis of their familiarity with each type of interval and the frequency of their having experienced each type of interval in music. (Author/CB)

Purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the learning of simple musical performance skills would affect self-esteem in such boys who were described as having learning and behavior problems in their classrooms. (Authors/CB)

Purpose of this article is to report an investigation of the usefulness of hearing tests under various conditions, and of the validity of such tests for the study of musicality. (Author)

By means of a multiple discrimination function analysis it is possible to reject the hypothesis that musicality, as measured by the tests in Wing's battery, is entirely influenced by hereditary factors. (Author)

If one accepts the premise that the criterion measure (Musical Aptitude Profile) is a valid predictor of future musical success, then the Measures of Musical Abilities, based on these data, can be considered to possess a moderately high validity for the same purpose. (Author/CB)

Seven forms of a programmed booklet based on an eleven-level hierarchy for addition of fractions were developed. One hundred forty-two fourth graders were randomly assigned to treatments; achievement, transfer, retention, and time were compared. No treatment was consistently superior, but developing sequences from hierarchies validated by test…

Purpose of this study was to provide an analysis of errors performed on a sight-reading test administered to four college freshman piano classes at the end of their first semester of instruction. (Author)

A model computer-assisted information retrieval system was developed to explore techniques for electronic searching of music education data. The list of concepts was collected from existing indexing services, including the Music Index, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. (Authors/CB)