The purpose of this study was to investigate whether music students could be systematically trained, by means of a guided listening course, to improve the reliability and validity of their evaluation of solo voice performance. Fifty-four music students were randomly and evenly divided into two groups. The treatment group took an 8-hour home study guided listening course, which focussed on twelve criteria of vocal production, derived from a previous study with expert voice teachers. At the end of the course, treatment subjects rated, on a seven-point Likert scale, twelve criteria and "overall score" for each of 25 performances of the same excerpt. The excerpt chosen was a portion of Mozart's lied "Ridente la calma". It was performed by 19 singers of differing voice classifications and achievement levels. Six of the performances were presented twice. The control group took the evaluation test, but received no treatment. / Interjudge reliability, intrajudge reliability and validity were assessed for the two groups and for 22 expert voice teachers. Treatment subjects achieved significantly higher scores than control subjects for interjudge reliability and validity. No significant difference was found, however, for intrajudge reliability. The expert group achieved significantly higher scores for all three measures than either of the student groups. No significant differences were found between graduate students and undergraduate students, nor between voice major and non-voice majors. Treatment subjects scored higher than control subjects on validity of their evaluations of all twelve criteria and "overall score".
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.26260 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Ekholm, Elizabeth |
| Contributors | Wapnick, Joel (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Faculty of Music.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001442996, proquestno: MM99895, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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