William E Fredrickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5872661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Fredrickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Fredrickson |
| SIGNATURE | FREDRICKSON W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8679-6449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Inspiring the Next Generation of Music Educators
The purpose of this instrumental multiple case study was to explore the roles that high school music educators and the experiences they provide play in influencing high school students’ decisions to pursue a career in music education. Four bounded systems, consisting of programs led by ensemble directors with documented records and reputations for helping matriculate music education students into undergraduate music education programs, were studi…
A Comparative Analysis of Influences on Choosing a Music Teaching Occupation
The purpose of this study was to compare motivations and influences of high school music students who express an interest in a career in music teaching and those who do not. A previous survey was adapted for the study and administered to a pre-college population that included musicians who stated a preference to pursue music teaching or other music careers and musicians who stated a preference for other nonmusic occupations. Items were analyzed u…
Career Influences of Music Education Audition Candidates
In this descriptive study, we examined the influences and experiences motivating students to enter college-level music schools as reported by a population of precollegiate students auditioning (but not yet accepted) to music education degree programs. As a follow-up to a published pilot study, this research was designed to quantify the various experiences respondents had as part of their precollege school and community programs that related to te…
Attitudes of String Teachers and Performers Toward Preparation for and Teaching of Private Lessons
The present study was designed to examine attitudes toward private lesson teaching of a cross-section of string instrument instructors ( N = 1,617). The participant pool was drawn from the membership of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA). Results were similar in many ways to responses in previous studies also involving music faculty and music students. These groups indicated that they liked teaching, liked the challenges of teaching …
The Effect of Text Translation on Perceived Musical Tension in Debussy’s Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maisons
The primary focus of the present study was to investigate the effect participants’ ( N = 100) knowledge of a text translation may have on their perceived musical tension while listening to a piece of choral music sung in another language. When examining the graphs that show the group mean responses of the participants, control (without text translation) versus experimental (with text translation), it is clear that there are many similarities betw…
Influences on Career Choice Among Music Education Audition Candidates
The purpose of this pilot study was to survey prospective undergraduate music education majors to learn what motivated them to aspire to a career in music education. Respondents were candidates auditioning, but not yet accepted, for music teacher preparation programs at four institutions ( N = 228). Findings corroborate prior research that suggests that school music teachers and/or private lesson teachers are highly influential. This study sought…
Music Majors' Attitudes Toward Private Lesson Teaching After Graduation
The purpose of this study was to survey current music students across degree programs and levels on their attitudes toward teaching private music lessons. Results showed few differences between undergraduate and graduate students. Across degrees, educators and performers were most alike on statements about wanting to teach, liking the idea of watching students learn, and looking forward to being better teachers themselves. They differed in that e…
A Comparison of Music Majors' and Nonmajors' Perceptions of Tension for Two Selections of Jazz Music
The present study allowed music majors (n = 40) and nonmajors (n = 30) to record their perceptions of tension in two selections of jazz music using the Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI). Both musical stimuli were recorded versions of “St. Louis Blues” by W. C. Handy, The first was a popular, stylized version sung by Nat King Cole, and the second, which included an extensive improvisatory section, was performed by Ella Fitzgerald. In co…
Effect of Musical Performance on Perception of Tension in Gustav Hoist's First Suite in E-flat
The purpose of the study was to examine whether musicians who rehearse and perform a musical selection perceive tension in the music differently than do listeners who have not had the performance experience. Students ( n = 32) in a university wind ensemble rehearsed and performed Gustav Hoist's First Suite in E-flat. Within 2 weeks of the performance, participants listened to a recording of the first movement (“Chaconne”) of that performance whil…
Elementary, Middle, and High School Student Perceptions of Tension in Music
School-age students from Grades 2, 5, 8, and 11/12 (N = 112) were asked to listen to a recording of the first movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 104. All subjects were asked to record their perception of “tension ” in the music using a Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI) dial. As in previous studies of this type (Fredrickson, 1995; Madsen & Fredrickson, 1993), no definition of the term in question was given, allowing subjects to, in essenc…
Band Musicians' Performance and Eye Contact as Influenced by Loss of a Visual and/or Aural Stimulus
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of losing a visual (conductor) and/or aural (ensemble) stimulus on the ability of band members to perform a piece of music with an ensemble. Subjects were 120 undergraduate band members who individually played their instrument while viewing a videotape of a conductor and listening to a band via headphones. After the first 16 measures, experimental groups lost the sound of the band, the picture…
Career Influences of Music Education Audition Candidates
In this descriptive study, we examined the influences and experiences motivating students to enter college-level music schools as reported by a population of precollegiate students auditioning (but not yet accepted) to music education degree programs. As a follow-up to a published pilot study, this research was designed to quantify the various experiences respondents had as part of their precollege school and community programs that related to te…
Music Majors' Attitudes Toward Private Lesson Teaching After Graduation
The purpose of this study was to survey current music students across degree programs and levels on their attitudes toward teaching private music lessons. Results showed few differences between undergraduate and graduate students. Across degrees, educators and performers were most alike on statements about wanting to teach, liking the idea of watching students learn, and looking forward to being better teachers themselves. They differed in that e…
Influences on Career Choice Among Music Education Audition Candidates
The purpose of this pilot study was to survey prospective undergraduate music education majors to learn what motivated them to aspire to a career in music education. Respondents were candidates auditioning, but not yet accepted, for music teacher preparation programs at four institutions ( N = 228). Findings corroborate prior research that suggests that school music teachers and/or private lesson teachers are highly influential. This study sought…
Inspiring the Next Generation of Music Educators
The purpose of this instrumental multiple case study was to explore the roles that high school music educators and the experiences they provide play in influencing high school students’ decisions to pursue a career in music education. Four bounded systems, consisting of programs led by ensemble directors with documented records and reputations for helping matriculate music education students into undergraduate music education programs, were studi…
A Comparison of Music Majors' and Nonmajors' Perceptions of Tension for Two Selections of Jazz Music
The present study allowed music majors (n = 40) and nonmajors (n = 30) to record their perceptions of tension in two selections of jazz music using the Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI). Both musical stimuli were recorded versions of “St. Louis Blues” by W. C. Handy, The first was a popular, stylized version sung by Nat King Cole, and the second, which included an extensive improvisatory section, was performed by Ella Fitzgerald. In co…
Elementary, Middle, and High School Student Perceptions of Tension in Music
School-age students from Grades 2, 5, 8, and 11/12 (N = 112) were asked to listen to a recording of the first movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 104. All subjects were asked to record their perception of “tension ” in the music using a Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI) dial. As in previous studies of this type (Fredrickson, 1995; Madsen & Fredrickson, 1993), no definition of the term in question was given, allowing subjects to, in essenc…
Band Musicians' Performance and Eye Contact as Influenced by Loss of a Visual and/or Aural Stimulus
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of losing a visual (conductor) and/or aural (ensemble) stimulus on the ability of band members to perform a piece of music with an ensemble. Subjects were 120 undergraduate band members who individually played their instrument while viewing a videotape of a conductor and listening to a band via headphones. After the first 16 measures, experimental groups lost the sound of the band, the picture…
Band Musicians' Performance and Eye Contact as Influenced by Loss of a Visual and/or Aural Stimulus
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of losing a visual (conductor) and/or aural (ensemble) stimulus on the ability of band members to perform a piece of music with an ensemble. Subjects were 120 undergraduate band members who individually played their instrument while viewing a videotape of a conductor and listening to a band via headphones. After the first 16 measures, experimental groups lost the sound of the band, the picture…
Elementary, Middle, and High School Student Perceptions of Tension in Music
School-age students from Grades 2, 5, 8, and 11/12 (N = 112) were asked to listen to a recording of the first movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 104. All subjects were asked to record their perception of “tension ” in the music using a Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI) dial. As in previous studies of this type (Fredrickson, 1995; Madsen & Fredrickson, 1993), no definition of the term in question was given, allowing subjects to, in essenc…
Effect of Musical Performance on Perception of Tension in Gustav Hoist's First Suite in E-flat
The purpose of the study was to examine whether musicians who rehearse and perform a musical selection perceive tension in the music differently than do listeners who have not had the performance experience. Students ( n = 32) in a university wind ensemble rehearsed and performed Gustav Hoist's First Suite in E-flat. Within 2 weeks of the performance, participants listened to a recording of the first movement (“Chaconne”) of that performance whil…
A Comparison of Music Majors' and Nonmajors' Perceptions of Tension for Two Selections of Jazz Music
The present study allowed music majors (n = 40) and nonmajors (n = 30) to record their perceptions of tension in two selections of jazz music using the Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI). Both musical stimuli were recorded versions of “St. Louis Blues” by W. C. Handy, The first was a popular, stylized version sung by Nat King Cole, and the second, which included an extensive improvisatory section, was performed by Ella Fitzgerald. In co…
Music Majors' Attitudes Toward Private Lesson Teaching After Graduation
The purpose of this study was to survey current music students across degree programs and levels on their attitudes toward teaching private music lessons. Results showed few differences between undergraduate and graduate students. Across degrees, educators and performers were most alike on statements about wanting to teach, liking the idea of watching students learn, and looking forward to being better teachers themselves. They differed in that e…
Influences on Career Choice Among Music Education Audition Candidates
The purpose of this pilot study was to survey prospective undergraduate music education majors to learn what motivated them to aspire to a career in music education. Respondents were candidates auditioning, but not yet accepted, for music teacher preparation programs at four institutions ( N = 228). Findings corroborate prior research that suggests that school music teachers and/or private lesson teachers are highly influential. This study sought…
The Effect of Text Translation on Perceived Musical Tension in Debussy’s Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maisons
The primary focus of the present study was to investigate the effect participants’ ( N = 100) knowledge of a text translation may have on their perceived musical tension while listening to a piece of choral music sung in another language. When examining the graphs that show the group mean responses of the participants, control (without text translation) versus experimental (with text translation), it is clear that there are many similarities betw…
Career Influences of Music Education Audition Candidates
In this descriptive study, we examined the influences and experiences motivating students to enter college-level music schools as reported by a population of precollegiate students auditioning (but not yet accepted) to music education degree programs. As a follow-up to a published pilot study, this research was designed to quantify the various experiences respondents had as part of their precollege school and community programs that related to te…
Attitudes of String Teachers and Performers Toward Preparation for and Teaching of Private Lessons
The present study was designed to examine attitudes toward private lesson teaching of a cross-section of string instrument instructors ( N = 1,617). The participant pool was drawn from the membership of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA). Results were similar in many ways to responses in previous studies also involving music faculty and music students. These groups indicated that they liked teaching, liked the challenges of teaching …
A Comparative Analysis of Influences on Choosing a Music Teaching Occupation
The purpose of this study was to compare motivations and influences of high school music students who express an interest in a career in music teaching and those who do not. A previous survey was adapted for the study and administered to a pre-college population that included musicians who stated a preference to pursue music teaching or other music careers and musicians who stated a preference for other nonmusic occupations. Items were analyzed u…
Inspiring the Next Generation of Music Educators
The purpose of this instrumental multiple case study was to explore the roles that high school music educators and the experiences they provide play in influencing high school students’ decisions to pursue a career in music education. Four bounded systems, consisting of programs led by ensemble directors with documented records and reputations for helping matriculate music education students into undergraduate music education programs, were studi…
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