The purpose of this study was to contribute new information on the effect of stimulus presentation variables on sight-reading errors, in the hope that it might aid the development of more effective and efficient instructional designs. (Author)

This study considered the way in which female and male music and nonmusic majors matched six paintings of Klee with the twenty-one compositions that inspired them. Purpose was to determine whether there were differences among the subjects with regard to their sex and to their major areas of study. (Author/CB)

This study proposed to develop techniques and procedures for the indexing, storing, and retrieving music education document information in a computer-assisted information retrieval system. (Authors)

This discussion covers the nature of paradigms and their use as research bases; the rationale behind this particular paradigm; interrelationships of the variables within the paradigm; and some possible uses of the paradigm in formulating research. (Author/CB)

The problem under consideration in this study was a comparison of national norms and some validity data on The Seashore Measures of Musical Talent with disadvantaged junior high school students analyzed by sex and race. (Authors)

Purpose of this study was to determine by means of a performance scale whether there would be a significant difference between the intonational and rhythmic achievement of fourth-grade students who began violin study in the first position and fourth-grade students who began in the third position. (Author/CB)

This study was intended to investigate whether junior high school students would develop broad stylistic concepts more efficiently through exposure to exclusively positive exemplars or through exposure to a combination of positive and negative exemplars. (Author/CB)

The supposition that teaching style has a direct or measurable effect on the learning of general music students in basic musical literacy as defined in the study appears to be at least partially unfounded. (Author)

It can be concluded from the results of this study that beginning wind students can learn to perceive beats and perceive when they are eliminated, that beginning wind students can learn to match unison pitches by the beat elimination process, and that most beginning wind students can use the beat elimination process to achieve correct intonation.…

This investigation showed the Test of Musicality to be especially valuable in distinguishing music majors from nonmusic majors. It is questionable, though, whether the test is actually a measure of music aptitude or potential; rather, a strong case could be made for the test's being an achievement measure. (Author)

The central purposes of this study were to discover whether musically unsophisticated seventh grade pupils could be taught to keep track of the unfolding forms of unfamiliar minuets and movements in sonata-allegro form, and the extent to which successful tracking is related to the observation of briefer musical elements. (Author)

Study considers similarities in listener reaction to musical compositions. (RK)

A basic assumption of this study is that there are generally agreed upon performance standards as evidenced by the use of adjudicators for evaluations at contests and festivals. An evaluation instrument was developed to enable raters to measure effectively those aspects of performance that have common standards of proficiency. (Author/RK)