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Theses and Dissertations--Music

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2020

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Song Teaching And Singing Accuracy Of Third Grade Elementary Music Students: An Investigation Using Multilevel Modeling, Kateri Miller Jan 2020

Song Teaching And Singing Accuracy Of Third Grade Elementary Music Students: An Investigation Using Multilevel Modeling, Kateri Miller

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The purpose of this study was to investigate song teaching approaches and their effect on the singing accuracy of third grade elementary students using an original song with no repeated phrases. Students (N = 318) and teachers (N = 22) were from a large school district in the Western United States with a diverse demographic population.

Three song teaching approaches were investigated: phrase-by-phrase, holistic, and combination. An original composed song with the phrase structure that does not include a repeated phrase was tested. Intact third grade classes were randomly selected from each of the 22 schools and teachers …