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Drawing on decades of teaching experience and the collective wisdom of dozens of the most creative theorists in the country, Michael R. Rogers's diverse survey of music theory--one of the first to comprehensively survey and evaluate the teaching styles, techniques, and materials used in theory courses--is a unique reference and research tool for teachers, theorists, secondary and postsecondary students, and for private study. This revised edition of Teaching Approaches in Music Theory: An Overview of Pedagogical Philosophies features an extensive updated bibliography encompassing the years since the volume was first published in 1984. In a new preface to this edition, Rogers references advancements in the field over the past two decades, from the appearance of the first scholarly journal devoted entirely to aspects of music theory education to the emergence of electronic advances and devices that will provide a supporting, if not central, role in the teaching of music theory in the foreseeable future. With the updated information, the text continues to provide an excellent starting point for the study of music theory pedagogy. Rogers has organized the book very much like a sonata. Part one, "Background," delineates principal ideas and themes, acquaints readers with the author's views of contemporary musical theory, and includes an orientation to an eclectic range of philosophical thinking on the subject; part two, "Thinking and Listening," develops these ideas in the specific areas of mindtraining and analysis, including a chapter on ear training; and part three, "Achieving Teaching Success," recapitulates main points in alternate contexts and surroundings and discusses how they can be applied to teaching and the evaluation of design and curriculum. Teaching Approaches in Music Theory emphasizes thoughtful examination and critique of the underlying and often tacit assumptions behind textbooks, materials, and technologies. Consistently combining general methods with specific examples and both philosophical and practical reasoning, Rogers compares and contrasts pairs of concepts and teaching approaches, some mutually exclusive and some overlapping. The volume is enhanced by extensive suggested reading lists for each chapter.
The purpose of this research was to examine methods of sight singing assessment in the high school choral classroom, and to develop and test a tool for student self-assessment of sight singing skills for use in high school choral classes. Problems associated with this study included designing a method for students in a high school choral class to predict and assess their individual abilities in sight singing; to investigate the extent to which students in a high school choral class can detect their own errors and therefore self-correct errors made while sight singing; to determine the reliability between the students’ predictions of their abilities and their actual performance of sight singing exercises; and to prepare students, through the self-assessment process, to successfully sight sing music equivalent to the examples used in the All-Virginia Chorus auditions. The study included the participation of 24 students in a select high school choir who voluntarily participated in four vocal recording sessions. Students were given a sight singing exercise of four measures and asked to predict on a rating scale of 1-5, how well they thought they would be able to sing it. They circled their rating, and recorded the example, rating from 1-5 how well they thought they had sung it. They listened to their recording and circled the errors. Exercises were presented in four separate recording sessions, each exercise increasing in difficulty until they were equivalent in difficulty to exercises used in the All-Virginia Chorus auditions. Data were reviewed by a panel of two high school choral directors. The analysis supports both the hypotheses that: 1. The student can accurately predict their performance before sight singing an exercise. 2. The student can accurately assess their performance after sight singing the exercise. Following all four recording sessions, the tapes were reviewed by the instructor and also by a panel of two independent assessors. The analysis of the data associated with the four recording sessions confirms both hypotheses. The ability of the students to accurately predict their post test score was positively confirmed by the second analysis. Eighty of the possible eighty-six assessor scores were the same or higher than the students—93%. Only six of the 86 (7%) were assessed as lower than predicted by the student.