The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of an investigator designed sight-reading method (SRM) on the sight-reading skills of college music majors. The SRM concentrated on two factors relating to sight-reading: rhythmic accuracy and scanning. / Freshmen and sophomore instrumental music majors (N = 29) were given a pretest using the Watkins-Farnum Performance Scale (1954) during the first week of Fall Semester 1994. Subjects were divided into two groups, experimental (n = 14, treatment with SRM) and control (n = 15, no treatment). The treatments consisted of weekly fifteen-minute lessons using the SRM for a period of twelve weeks. / A posttest was given following the treatment period. Results of the pretest and posttest were compared in order to answer the following questions: Was there a significant difference in the pretest and posttest scores of the experimental group? Was there a significant difference in the pretest and posttest scores of the control group? Was there a significant difference in the experimental group's score change and the control group's score change? A two-tailed "t" test was utilized to analyze the data. It was concluded that both the experimental group and control group exhibited significant increases in sight-reading scores. However, there was no significant difference between the experimental group's increase and the control group's increase. It was concluded from these findings that the SRM did not produce any more of an increase in sight-reading scores than did the traditional activities of a music major. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1283. / Major Professor: James Croft. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77415 |
| Contributors | Laverty, John M., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 187 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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