Steven J Morrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven J Morrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven J |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrison |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISON S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Editor, Journal of Research in Music Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1036-9544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Focus of alignment and performance accuracy among wind band musicians in situations of audio-visual asynchrony
Ensemble musicians must navigate a complex sensory environment to produce cohesive performances. The purpose of this study was to examine pulse alignment among performers of different experience levels facing increasingly asynchronous auditory and visual information. Musicians ( N = 51) who were current members of large instrumental ensembles watched a video of a conductor outlining a 4/4 pattern while hearing a multivoiced instrumental ensemble …
Is Major Minor? The Relationship Between Music Major Status and a Measure of Musical Sophistication
Although music education researchers often utilize music major status as a single-item proxy variable for musician status—and with this designation presume musical competencies or abilities of research participants—there is a lack of research demonstrating links between status as a music major and those assumed competencies. In this study, we compared undergraduate music majors and non-music majors ( N = 237) at the group and individual levels us…
Latina Paraeducators’ Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptation in an Alternative Route to Teaching Program
Adichie asserts that “stories matter” because they help us to humanize and empower one another. Stories allow us to make sense of our experiences or the “lived stories” of our lives. This qualitative case study draws from a federally funded, multiyear mixed-methods study focusing on an alternative route to teaching program designed to certify English language learning and bilingual teachers. Using Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) model and…
Steven MacGregor Demorest (1959-2019)
Obituary| February 01 2020 Steven MacGregor Demorest (1959-2019) Steven J. Morrison, Steven J. Morrison Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Bryan E. Nichols Bryan E. Nichols Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Music Perception (2020) 37 (3): 183–184. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2020.37.3.183 Views Icon Views Article con…
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“Unless You Were Native American…Everybody Came From Another Country: ” Language and Content Learning in a Grade 4 Diverse Classroom
Set amidst an increasingly tense discourse about immigration and substantial pressures on educators, this study examines a three-week fourth-grade social studies unit as taught to a class with a large number of English learners located in a low-income school in the Pacific Northwest. Using ethnographic and sociolinguistic perspectives, we provide evidence of how the teacher leverages a wide array of instructional strategies and scaffolds to build…
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The Effect of a Recorded Model on Band Students' Performance Self-Evaluations, Achievement, and Attitude
In this study, we examined effectiveness of recorded models in the context of ensemble rehearsals. Over a 5-week treatment period, directors of three middle/junior high and two high school bands systematically included professional recordings as part of their preparation of selected pieces. Students completed weekly self-evaluation reports assessing their individual progress and their ensembles' progress on model and no-model pieces. Using numeri…
The Effect of Conductor Expressivity on Ensemble Performance Evaluation
In this study, the authors examined whether a conductor's use of high-expressivity or low-expressivity techniques affected evaluations of ensemble performances that were identical across conducting conditions. Two conductors each conducted two 1-minute parallel excerpts from Percy Grainger's Walking Tune. Each directed one excerpt using high- and one using low-expressivity techniques. After watching a video of the four conducting segments set to …
Effect of Melodic Context, Tuning Behaviors, and Experience on the Intonation Accuracy of Wind Players
In the first of two experiments, subjects ( N = 137) were band students with 1, 2, 3, or 4 years of formal instrumental performance experience. Subjects tuned to a single prerecorded tuning pitch and subsequently played along with a prerecorded four-measure melody. Direction and magnitude of pitch deviation were analyzed for the single tuning pitch and four selected target pitches within the melody. Responses to the tuning pitch were more accurat…
Effect of Knowledge of Directional Mistunings on the Tuning Accuracy of Beginning and Intermediate Wind Players
The purpose of this research was to study the effect of knowledge of directional mis-tunings on the tuning accuracy of beginning and intermediate wind players. Subjects (N = 197) were instrumental wind players who tuned to either an For a B-flat with both their own instrument—a performance task—and the tuning knob of a variable-pitch keyboard—a perception task. The subjects were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: Group 1 knew tha…
The Relationship Between English Language Learner Status and Music Ensemble Participation
Authors of previous research have reported that U.S. English language learner (ELL) students participate in school-sponsored music ensembles (band, orchestra, and choir) at a lower rate than their native-English-speaking peers (non-ELLs). The current study examined this phenomenon using a nationally representative sample of U.S. 10th graders (14- to 16-year-olds across 751 high schools, N = 15,011) to estimate school music ensemble participation …
A Comparison of Preference Responses of White and African-American Students to Musical versus Musical/Visual Stimuli
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of same- and other-group identification in musical preference decision-making. Subjects were African-American (n = 189) and white (n = 280) music students in Grades 6, 7, and 8. Each subject responded along a 9-point Likert scale to 10 instrumental music excerpts, five performed by African-American jazz artists and five performed by white jazz artists. Examples were presented according to one of t…
Preference Responses and Use of Written Descriptors among Music and Nonmusic Majors in the United States, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China
This study compares preference responses to selected musical examples across groups of listeners from three nationalities and investigates how similarities/differences in preference responses may or may not be reflected in listeners' written comments. Subjects were undergraduate music and nonmusic majors from the United States (n = 119), Hong Kong (n = 136), and the People's Republic of China (n = 124) and were asked to respond along a 9-point Li…
Enculturation Effects in Music Cognition: The Role of Age and Music Complexity
The authors replicate and extend findings from previous studies of music enculturation by comparing music memory performance of children to that of adults when listening to culturally familiar and unfamiliar music. Forty-three children and 50 adults, all born and raised in the United States, completed a music memory test comprising unfamiliar excerpts of Western and Turkish classical music. Examples were selected at two levels of difficulty—simpl…
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Effect of Knowledge of Directional Mistunings on the Tuning Accuracy of Beginning and Intermediate Wind Players
The purpose of this research was to study the effect of knowledge of directional mis-tunings on the tuning accuracy of beginning and intermediate wind players. Subjects (N = 197) were instrumental wind players who tuned to either an For a B-flat with both their own instrument—a performance task—and the tuning knob of a variable-pitch keyboard—a perception task. The subjects were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: Group 1 knew tha…
A Comparison of Preference Responses of White and African-American Students to Musical versus Musical/Visual Stimuli
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of same- and other-group identification in musical preference decision-making. Subjects were African-American (n = 189) and white (n = 280) music students in Grades 6, 7, and 8. Each subject responded along a 9-point Likert scale to 10 instrumental music excerpts, five performed by African-American jazz artists and five performed by white jazz artists. Examples were presented according to one of t…
Preference Responses and Use of Written Descriptors among Music and Nonmusic Majors in the United States, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China
This study compares preference responses to selected musical examples across groups of listeners from three nationalities and investigates how similarities/differences in preference responses may or may not be reflected in listeners' written comments. Subjects were undergraduate music and nonmusic majors from the United States (n = 119), Hong Kong (n = 136), and the People's Republic of China (n = 124) and were asked to respond along a 9-point Li…
Effect of Melodic Context, Tuning Behaviors, and Experience on the Intonation Accuracy of Wind Players
In the first of two experiments, subjects ( N = 137) were band students with 1, 2, 3, or 4 years of formal instrumental performance experience. Subjects tuned to a single prerecorded tuning pitch and subsequently played along with a prerecorded four-measure melody. Direction and magnitude of pitch deviation were analyzed for the single tuning pitch and four selected target pitches within the melody. Responses to the tuning pitch were more accurat…
The Effect of a Recorded Model on Band Students' Performance Self-Evaluations, Achievement, and Attitude
In this study, we examined effectiveness of recorded models in the context of ensemble rehearsals. Over a 5-week treatment period, directors of three middle/junior high and two high school bands systematically included professional recordings as part of their preparation of selected pieces. Students completed weekly self-evaluation reports assessing their individual progress and their ensembles' progress on model and no-model pieces. Using numeri…
Enculturation Effects in Music Cognition: The Role of Age and Music Complexity
The authors replicate and extend findings from previous studies of music enculturation by comparing music memory performance of children to that of adults when listening to culturally familiar and unfamiliar music. Forty-three children and 50 adults, all born and raised in the United States, completed a music memory test comprising unfamiliar excerpts of Western and Turkish classical music. Examples were selected at two levels of difficulty—simpl…
Are the Russians Involved, Sir: The British Dimension of Dr. Strangelove
Filmed in Shepperton by a director from New York, shaped by a novel by a British author at its inception and influenced by the work of a British cast and crew during its production, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove is explored in this essay as a British–American hybrid. Kubrick’s film was informed throughout the period of its creation by the differences in political and cultural attitudes toward the nuclear threat that existed between the US and…
The Effect of Conductor Expressivity on Ensemble Performance Evaluation
In this study, the authors examined whether a conductor's use of high-expressivity or low-expressivity techniques affected evaluations of ensemble performances that were identical across conducting conditions. Two conductors each conducted two 1-minute parallel excerpts from Percy Grainger's Walking Tune. Each directed one excerpt using high- and one using low-expressivity techniques. After watching a video of the four conducting segments set to …
Effect of Intensive Instruction on Elementary Students’ Memory for Culturally Unfamiliar Music
Previous researchers have found that both adults and children demonstrate better memory for novel music from their own music culture than from an unfamiliar music culture. It was the purpose of this study to determine whether this “enculturation effect” could be mediated through an extended intensive instructional unit in another culture’s music. Fifth-grade students in four intact general music classrooms (two each at two elementary schools in a…
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The Relationship Between English Language Learner Status and Music Ensemble Participation
Authors of previous research have reported that U.S. English language learner (ELL) students participate in school-sponsored music ensembles (band, orchestra, and choir) at a lower rate than their native-English-speaking peers (non-ELLs). The current study examined this phenomenon using a nationally representative sample of U.S. 10th graders (14- to 16-year-olds across 751 high schools, N = 15,011) to estimate school music ensemble participation …
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“Unless You Were Native American…Everybody Came From Another Country: ” Language and Content Learning in a Grade 4 Diverse Classroom
Set amidst an increasingly tense discourse about immigration and substantial pressures on educators, this study examines a three-week fourth-grade social studies unit as taught to a class with a large number of English learners located in a low-income school in the Pacific Northwest. Using ethnographic and sociolinguistic perspectives, we provide evidence of how the teacher leverages a wide array of instructional strategies and scaffolds to build…
Psychology (37 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (13 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (12 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Music education (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (5 works)