Albert LeBlanc
Biographic Data
| ID | 5872328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert LeBlanc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | LeBlanc |
| SIGNATURE | LEBLANC A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Note on Tekman's Study of Preference Judgments for Excerpts of Music
Pictorial versus Verbal Rating Scales in Music Preference Measurement
Participants from Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6 ( N = 238) rated selections on an 18-item music listening tape four consecutive times at 2-week intervals, alternately using pictorial and verbal Likert-type response scales. The order of response scale administration was counterbalanced among the classrooms involved. There was no significant difference between preference scores generated by participants using either form of response scale. Test-retest reli…
Effect of Audience on Music Performance Anxiety
We tested 27 male and female high school band members performing solos under three levels of audience presence. Participants performed alone in a practice room, in a practice room with one researcher present, and in the rehearsal room with all researchers, a peer group, and a tape recording being made. Dependent measures were an analog scale self-report of perceived anxiety, heart rate recorded during performance, judges' rating of the final perf…
Music Style Preferences of Different Age Listeners
We measured the music preference opinions of 2,262 listeners for examples of art musk, traditional jazz, and rock. Our subjects were enrolled in Grades 1 through college, and we also tested adults who were not college students. Participants ranged in age from 6 to 91 years. We found that music preference means for the different styles were comparatively similar across grade levels, and when style subtest scores were pooled to make a general index…
Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address
Albert LeBlanc is the recipient of the MENC's 1992 Senior Researcher Award. The following speech was presented on April 10, 1992 at the business meeting of the Society for Research in Music Education at the National Biennial In-Service Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
Relationship between Humor Perceived in Music and Preferences of Different-Age Listeners
The purpose of this study was to measure the relationship between humor perceived in music and the self reported music preference opinions of subjects representing four different age levels. We administered a listening test composed of humorous and nonhumorous song excerpts in three popular music styles to 445 subjects in Michigan, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. Male and female listeners in Grades 3, 7, and 11 as well as college undergraduates parti…
Acquiring Criteria of Excellence for Scholarly Journals in Music
We selected 24 journals to represent scholarly publication in the academic fields of music in the United States. We then contacted each editor, along with two members of each journals editorial committee and 48 publishing scholars whose work has appeared in these journals, asking them to identify the characteristics of an excellent scholarly journal in their own field of music. While some responses were specific to individual branches of music sc…
Motivation and Perceived Rewards for Research by Music Faculty
A questionnaire was sent to 90 publishing researchers who were members of college music faculties in the fields of music theory, music history, music education, and music therapy asking them why they engaged in research activity and what specific rewards they believe they obtained because of their own research. Among the 55 respondents, intellectual curiosity, enjoyment, self-improvement, and perceived duty were the main reasons for conducting re…
Tempo Preferences of Different Age Music Listeners
The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of four levels of tempo on the self-reported preferences of six different age-groups for traditional jazz music listening examples. The authors administered a listening test to 926 students in 45 classrooms from third grade through college level in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of internal consistency, student behavior was observed during the test, and free-r…
Effect of Vocal Vibrato and Performer's Sex on Children's Music Preference
This study measured the effect of low and high levels of vocal vibrato, employed by male and female performers, on the self-reported music listening preferences of upper elementary school children. A listening test was administered to 127 children from grades 4, 5, and 6 drawn from five classrooms in Lansing, Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of stability across time and internal consistency, and student behavior was observed duri…
Effect of Tempo on Children's Music Preference
This study measured the effect of four levels of tempo on the expressed preference of fifth and sixth grade students for traditional jazz music listening examples. A listening test was administered to 163 students in seven classrooms in south central Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of common factor concentration, student behavior was observed during the test, and free response data were solicited from students at the end of the …
Effects of Tempo and Performing Medium on Children's Music Preference
This study measured the effect of tempo and performing medium on the expressed preference of fifth- and sixth-grade students for traditional jazz music listening examples. A listening test was administered to 354 students in 14 classrooms in central Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of common factor concentration, student behavior observed during the test, and free response data solicited from students at the end of the measuremen…
Effects of Style, Tempo, and Performing Medium on Children' s Music Preference
The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of style, tempo, and performing medium on fifth-rade students' expressed music listening preference. A listening test was administered to 107 students in four classes in central Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of common factor concentration and stability across time, and behavior observation was used to help interpret results. A preference hierarchy emerged in which the popula…
Generic Style Music Preferences of Fifth-Grade Students
The primary intent of this study was to find fifth-graders' most preferred generic music style and identify the critical competitors of that style, if any existed. A short listening test was developed to measure preference for different generic styles of music. Ambient sound was employed as a reference point to anchor the response scale. The test was administered to 278 students of varying socioeconomic status and ethnic background in 11 fifth-gr…
A Graduate Level Listening Test in Music History and Analysis
The purpose of this study was the development and validation of a graduate level listening test in music history and analysis. Nine exploratory test forms were sequentially developed and tried. The resulting Listening Test of Musical Style is uniquely different from other tests predicting graduate school success because of its complete reliance upon music listening as the basis of measurement. The test was found sufficiently reliable and valid fo…
Effects of Style, Tempo, and Performing Medium on Children' s Music Preference
The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of style, tempo, and performing medium on fifth-rade students' expressed music listening preference. A listening test was administered to 107 students in four classes in central Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of common factor concentration and stability across time, and behavior observation was used to help interpret results. A preference hierarchy emerged in which the popula…
Tempo Preferences of Different Age Music Listeners
The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of four levels of tempo on the self-reported preferences of six different age-groups for traditional jazz music listening examples. The authors administered a listening test to 926 students in 45 classrooms from third grade through college level in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of internal consistency, student behavior was observed during the test, and free-r…
Effects of Tempo and Performing Medium on Children's Music Preference
This study measured the effect of tempo and performing medium on the expressed preference of fifth- and sixth-grade students for traditional jazz music listening examples. A listening test was administered to 354 students in 14 classrooms in central Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of common factor concentration, student behavior observed during the test, and free response data solicited from students at the end of the measuremen…
Generic Style Music Preferences of Fifth-Grade Students
The primary intent of this study was to find fifth-graders' most preferred generic music style and identify the critical competitors of that style, if any existed. A short listening test was developed to measure preference for different generic styles of music. Ambient sound was employed as a reference point to anchor the response scale. The test was administered to 278 students of varying socioeconomic status and ethnic background in 11 fifth-gr…
Music Style Preferences of Different Age Listeners
We measured the music preference opinions of 2,262 listeners for examples of art musk, traditional jazz, and rock. Our subjects were enrolled in Grades 1 through college, and we also tested adults who were not college students. Participants ranged in age from 6 to 91 years. We found that music preference means for the different styles were comparatively similar across grade levels, and when style subtest scores were pooled to make a general index…
Relationship between Humor Perceived in Music and Preferences of Different-Age Listeners
The purpose of this study was to measure the relationship between humor perceived in music and the self reported music preference opinions of subjects representing four different age levels. We administered a listening test composed of humorous and nonhumorous song excerpts in three popular music styles to 445 subjects in Michigan, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. Male and female listeners in Grades 3, 7, and 11 as well as college undergraduates parti…
Effect of Audience on Music Performance Anxiety
We tested 27 male and female high school band members performing solos under three levels of audience presence. Participants performed alone in a practice room, in a practice room with one researcher present, and in the rehearsal room with all researchers, a peer group, and a tape recording being made. Dependent measures were an analog scale self-report of perceived anxiety, heart rate recorded during performance, judges' rating of the final perf…
Effect of Vocal Vibrato and Performer's Sex on Children's Music Preference
This study measured the effect of low and high levels of vocal vibrato, employed by male and female performers, on the self-reported music listening preferences of upper elementary school children. A listening test was administered to 127 children from grades 4, 5, and 6 drawn from five classrooms in Lansing, Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of stability across time and internal consistency, and student behavior was observed duri…
Motivation and Perceived Rewards for Research by Music Faculty
A questionnaire was sent to 90 publishing researchers who were members of college music faculties in the fields of music theory, music history, music education, and music therapy asking them why they engaged in research activity and what specific rewards they believe they obtained because of their own research. Among the 55 respondents, intellectual curiosity, enjoyment, self-improvement, and perceived duty were the main reasons for conducting re…
Pictorial versus Verbal Rating Scales in Music Preference Measurement
Participants from Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6 ( N = 238) rated selections on an 18-item music listening tape four consecutive times at 2-week intervals, alternately using pictorial and verbal Likert-type response scales. The order of response scale administration was counterbalanced among the classrooms involved. There was no significant difference between preference scores generated by participants using either form of response scale. Test-retest reli…
Acquiring Criteria of Excellence for Scholarly Journals in Music
We selected 24 journals to represent scholarly publication in the academic fields of music in the United States. We then contacted each editor, along with two members of each journals editorial committee and 48 publishing scholars whose work has appeared in these journals, asking them to identify the characteristics of an excellent scholarly journal in their own field of music. While some responses were specific to individual branches of music sc…
A Graduate Level Listening Test in Music History and Analysis
The purpose of this study was the development and validation of a graduate level listening test in music history and analysis. Nine exploratory test forms were sequentially developed and tried. The resulting Listening Test of Musical Style is uniquely different from other tests predicting graduate school success because of its complete reliance upon music listening as the basis of measurement. The test was found sufficiently reliable and valid fo…
A Graduate Level Listening Test in Music History and Analysis
The purpose of this study was the development and validation of a graduate level listening test in music history and analysis. Nine exploratory test forms were sequentially developed and tried. The resulting Listening Test of Musical Style is uniquely different from other tests predicting graduate school success because of its complete reliance upon music listening as the basis of measurement. The test was found sufficiently reliable and valid fo…
Generic Style Music Preferences of Fifth-Grade Students
The primary intent of this study was to find fifth-graders' most preferred generic music style and identify the critical competitors of that style, if any existed. A short listening test was developed to measure preference for different generic styles of music. Ambient sound was employed as a reference point to anchor the response scale. The test was administered to 278 students of varying socioeconomic status and ethnic background in 11 fifth-gr…
Effects of Style, Tempo, and Performing Medium on Children' s Music Preference
The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of style, tempo, and performing medium on fifth-rade students' expressed music listening preference. A listening test was administered to 107 students in four classes in central Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of common factor concentration and stability across time, and behavior observation was used to help interpret results. A preference hierarchy emerged in which the popula…
Effect of Tempo on Children's Music Preference
This study measured the effect of four levels of tempo on the expressed preference of fifth and sixth grade students for traditional jazz music listening examples. A listening test was administered to 163 students in seven classrooms in south central Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of common factor concentration, student behavior was observed during the test, and free response data were solicited from students at the end of the …
Effects of Tempo and Performing Medium on Children's Music Preference
This study measured the effect of tempo and performing medium on the expressed preference of fifth- and sixth-grade students for traditional jazz music listening examples. A listening test was administered to 354 students in 14 classrooms in central Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of common factor concentration, student behavior observed during the test, and free response data solicited from students at the end of the measuremen…
Effect of Vocal Vibrato and Performer's Sex on Children's Music Preference
This study measured the effect of low and high levels of vocal vibrato, employed by male and female performers, on the self-reported music listening preferences of upper elementary school children. A listening test was administered to 127 children from grades 4, 5, and 6 drawn from five classrooms in Lansing, Michigan. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of stability across time and internal consistency, and student behavior was observed duri…
Tempo Preferences of Different Age Music Listeners
The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of four levels of tempo on the self-reported preferences of six different age-groups for traditional jazz music listening examples. The authors administered a listening test to 926 students in 45 classrooms from third grade through college level in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Test reliability was evaluated in terms of internal consistency, student behavior was observed during the test, and free-r…
Motivation and Perceived Rewards for Research by Music Faculty
A questionnaire was sent to 90 publishing researchers who were members of college music faculties in the fields of music theory, music history, music education, and music therapy asking them why they engaged in research activity and what specific rewards they believe they obtained because of their own research. Among the 55 respondents, intellectual curiosity, enjoyment, self-improvement, and perceived duty were the main reasons for conducting re…
Acquiring Criteria of Excellence for Scholarly Journals in Music
We selected 24 journals to represent scholarly publication in the academic fields of music in the United States. We then contacted each editor, along with two members of each journals editorial committee and 48 publishing scholars whose work has appeared in these journals, asking them to identify the characteristics of an excellent scholarly journal in their own field of music. While some responses were specific to individual branches of music sc…
Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address
Albert LeBlanc is the recipient of the MENC's 1992 Senior Researcher Award. The following speech was presented on April 10, 1992 at the business meeting of the Society for Research in Music Education at the National Biennial In-Service Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
Relationship between Humor Perceived in Music and Preferences of Different-Age Listeners
The purpose of this study was to measure the relationship between humor perceived in music and the self reported music preference opinions of subjects representing four different age levels. We administered a listening test composed of humorous and nonhumorous song excerpts in three popular music styles to 445 subjects in Michigan, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. Male and female listeners in Grades 3, 7, and 11 as well as college undergraduates parti…
Music Style Preferences of Different Age Listeners
We measured the music preference opinions of 2,262 listeners for examples of art musk, traditional jazz, and rock. Our subjects were enrolled in Grades 1 through college, and we also tested adults who were not college students. Participants ranged in age from 6 to 91 years. We found that music preference means for the different styles were comparatively similar across grade levels, and when style subtest scores were pooled to make a general index…
Effect of Audience on Music Performance Anxiety
We tested 27 male and female high school band members performing solos under three levels of audience presence. Participants performed alone in a practice room, in a practice room with one researcher present, and in the rehearsal room with all researchers, a peer group, and a tape recording being made. Dependent measures were an analog scale self-report of perceived anxiety, heart rate recorded during performance, judges' rating of the final perf…
Note on Tekman's Study of Preference Judgments for Excerpts of Music
Pictorial versus Verbal Rating Scales in Music Preference Measurement
Participants from Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6 ( N = 238) rated selections on an 18-item music listening tape four consecutive times at 2-week intervals, alternately using pictorial and verbal Likert-type response scales. The order of response scale administration was counterbalanced among the classrooms involved. There was no significant difference between preference scores generated by participants using either form of response scale. Test-retest reli…
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