Musicians comprising the top choir and orchestra at five selected schools of music, the top choir from a sixth selected school, and the top orchestra from a seventh selected school served as subjects. Forms were completed ...

The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effectiveness of a computer-based training program for improving students' ability to make judgments of harmonic intonation. Twenty members of two undergraduate ...

The problem was to determine the extent to which critical judgments of undergraduate music students conform to the judgments of recognized music critics. Published reviews identified 177 critically recognized inferior and ...

The purpose of this study was to consider the thought processes involved in the formulation of written music criticism. Using John Dewey's definition of thinking as a basis, the works of metacritics Francis Sparshott, ...

Children's understanding of ability and its relationship to effort was examined, and characteristics believed to be related to the level of their understanding were described. Two stratified random samples were drawn from ...