英文摘要 |
This study aims to measure the performance of sixth graders on an aural-visual tonal test. The content of the test was based on the textbooks and national music standards. The test was applied to 340 sixth graders in Taipei City. The differences of the music aural-visual discrimination abilities between the female and male students with different musical backgrounds were analyzed and discussed. The results are as follows: 1. Students could identify melodic contours better than tonal intervals. 2. There was not much difference in students identification of melodic contour thru figures or notations. It was easier for students to recognize the ranges of music than to identify the precise pitches of the music. 3. Students performed differently in music contour discrimination among different arrangements of music contour. 4. In the contour discrimination subtest, students answered more correctly for upward melodies than for downward melodies. Moreover, students performed better on the upward-to-downward melodic contours than on the downward-to-upward ones. 5. For the interval discrimination subtest, it was easier for students to identify the notations of the music with smaller intervals. 6. For the interval discrimination subtest, students tended to give the answers for melody ranges according to the proceeding music. 7. There was no significant difference in aural-visual tonal discrimination between genders. 8. Students performed aural-visual tonal discrimination significant differently according to their different music backgrounds. Many suggestions based on the results were given for educators, administrators, and further research in the future. |