The Development of the Child' s Conception of Meter in Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10200201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Russell L Jones (Kansas State College of Pittsburg Pittsburg, Kansas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 142-154 |
| Publication date | 1976-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Research in Music Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4294 • E-ISSN: 1945-0095 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3345157 |
| OpenAlex | W2121398601 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
The purpose of this study was to investigate the development of the child' s ability to conceptualize and identify meter in music. Eleven musical tasks, based largely on Piaget' s theory of the child' s conception of time, were administered individually to 66 children, ages 5– 12. The tasks were arranged in order of increasing difficulty, and a scalogram analysis was performed on the data. Green' s index of consistency for the scale was .854 (an index of .5 or above represents satisfactory scalability). Although the order of difficulty of the 11 tasks may not be regarded as invariant, an analysis of the responses provided support for Piaget' s idea that the child' s conception of time develops through three invariant stages. The meter concept seems to develop after about age 91/2, although many children in this study between ages 91/2 and 12 had some difficulty understanding the meter concept and identifying the meter of rhythm patterns following a pretraining session
Aesthetics · Child development · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Mathematics education · Music education · Musical · Pedagogy · Rhythm · Visual arts · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Diverse Music Education Insights · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology
Techniques of attitude scale construction.
The developmental psychology of Jean Piaget.
A Review and Comparison of Simple Statistical Tests for Scalogram Analysis
A Note on Statistical Significance of Scalogram
The Effect of Training on the Harmonic Discrimination of First-Grade Children
Musical Development in Preschool Disadvantaged Children
Development of a Technique for Identifying Elementary School Children's Musical Concepts
The Effect of Various Instructional Modes on Children's Performance of Music Concept Tasks
Environment—A Factor in Conceptual Listening Skills of Elementary School Children
Acquiring Conservation of Melody and Cross-Modal Transfer Through Successive Approximation
Levels of Conceptual Development in Melodic Permutation Concepts Based on Piaget's Theory
The Responses of Children to Musical Tasks Embodying Piaget's Principle of Conservation
A Self-Instructional Program for Musical Concept Development in Preschool Children
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 1984 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |