Pitch and interval accuracy in echo singing and xylophone plying by 8 and 10 year-old chidren from England, Spain, Taiwan, and Usa

• Autores: Randall Moore, Hsiao-Shien Chen, Melissa Brotons
• Localización: Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, ISSN 0010-9894, Nº 161-162, 2004, págs. 173-180
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Researchers compared children's echo singing and xylophone playing across four nationalities and two grade levels. Participants were 192 children 8 and 10-year-olds from England, Taiwan, and the United States. Results showed participants aged 10 scored higher than those aged 8, girls scored higher than boys, xylophone playing had higher scores than singing, and participants from Taiwan had higher scores than those from the United States and England. No order effect was observed. Several interactions showed significant differences, and variability among 10 items showed different effects within and between singing and xylophone playing. Replication in Spain (N=64) showed some different results