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The Effects of Score Use on Musicians’ Ratings of Choral Performances

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA, Jessica.napoles{at}utah.edu

The purpose of this study was to determine whether viewing a musical score while listening (as opposed to not viewing the score) would affect musicians’ ratings of choral performance excerpts. University musicians (N = 240) listened to four excerpts of choral music (from Vivaldi’s Gloria) and rated them on a 10-point Likert-type scale for overall impression. Some of the participants heard a professional chorus and orchestra recording, and others heard a high school group recording. For both of the recordings, participants were divided into four groups in a counterbalanced design, with one group viewing the score for all four excerpts, another group never viewing the score,and the other two groups viewing the score for two of the excerpts but not the other two. Results of a three-way ANOVA with repeated measures indicated significant differences among groups. The group that never saw the scores gave significantly lower ratings than the group that saw all of the scores.The excerpts performed by the professional group were rated significantly higher than the excerpts performed by the high school group.

Key Words: score use • choral performance • adjudicator ratings

Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 57, No. 3, 267-279 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0022429409343423


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