Resumen de The Effects of Model Timbre and Register Differences on Middle School Brass and Woodwind Performance
The purpose of the study is to determine the effects that timbre and register characteristics of instrumental models have on the music performance achievement of middle school instrumentalists. A counterbalanced design was used in which participants (N = 32) were randomly assigned to three conditions creating 96 independent treatment sessions. Students in each of the four treatment conditions listened to a model performance of a piece being learned while a control group did not. Model recordings heard by treatment group participants were an amalgamation of two timbre conditions (same, different) and two register conditions (same, different). Multivariate analyses of variance revealed that there were no differences between control and treatment groups. Furthermore, no differences existed between the four treatment conditions. It appears that the register and timbre of the instrument used for the model may be of little relevance to the learning of a new piece of music.
