Predicting aural performance in a tertiary music training programme
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Article Title | Predicting aural performance in a tertiary music training programme |
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ERA Journal ID | 6617 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Buttsworth, Louise M. (Author), Fogarty, Gerard J. (Author) and Rorke, Peter C. (Author) |
Journal Title | Psychology of Music |
Journal Citation | 21 (2), pp. 114-126 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 1993 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0305-7356 |
1741-3087 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/030573569302100202 |
Web Address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030573569302100202 |
Abstract | Selection of students for entry to tertiary music training programmes is a difficult task traditionally undertaken by painstaking individual auditions, perhaps under highly variable local conditions as the selection team moves from region to region. A number of musical aptitude batteries have been developed but do not appear to have been widely embraced largely because of poor predictive validity. In the present study, a battery of tests designed to assess aural skills, an important component of musical training, was developed by a team of psychologists and musicians at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ). The battery consisted mostly of tests of pitch discrimination and intonation. All students (N = 91) currently enrolled in the Music Programme at USQ completed the musical tests. A regression model was then constructed using test scores as independent variables and students' end of semester aural training performance scores as the dependent variable. The resulting model accounted for 36% of the variance in scores on final exam results, a result well beyond chance expectations. Further testing with a revised version of the battery is under way. |
Keywords | aural performance, skills, pitch discrimination, intonation, tertiary, music training programmes, programs, University of Southern Queensland, USQ |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520406. Sensory processes, perception and performance |
390409. Learning sciences | |
360306. Musicology and ethnomusicology | |
Public Notes | Copyright 1993, Psychology of Music Online by Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Science |
Faculty of Sciences |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9xv63/predicting-aural-performance-in-a-tertiary-music-training-programme
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