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The Preschool Child's Knowledge Of Musical Pitch, Farol Ann Nelson
The Preschool Child's Knowledge Of Musical Pitch, Farol Ann Nelson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The objective of this study was to determine what kinds of musical instruments were most effective in developing pitch discrimination in preschool children. Five melody instruments were used in this study, including a wooden soprano recorder, a C flute, a commercially made xylophone, a melodica, and a set of cut conduit pipes played as a xylophone-type instrument. Children from the Child Development Labs at Utah State University, Logan, Utah comprised the sample.
It was found that children do identify high and low pitches more easily in some instruments than in others. They discriminated between high and low pitches of the …