An Investigation on the Situations of the Junior High School Bands in Yilan County

• Main Author: 侯姿伃
• Other Authors: 吳舜文
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58787891142280645910

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 音樂學系在職進修碩士班 === 98 === This research purposed to understand the development of junior high school bands in Yiland County. Two hundred and eighty students along with six tutors in four schools were chose as subjects. Questionnaire survey and in-depth interview were used to collect the data thus the results and conclusions through quantitative and qualitative analyses were stated as follows: I. The situations of the organization and operation were: 1) Bands were all established under the law of local promotional plan. 2) Tutors were all external and were assisted by internal music teachers along with a strong support from parents’ organizations. 3) Oral, paper, and performing were ways of enrolling new students. 4) Budget was support by the governments and partly from students themselves. And 5) ensemble rooms, allowed sixty to seventy members, were reserved for the use of bands’ training by schools along with equipments those were mostly out of use. II. The Situations of the training were: 1) Ensemble and branch courses were once a week and intense courses were arranged to enhance while performances or contests. 2) Usual training materials were 3D Band Book and Foundations for Superior Performance. 3) Teaching methods were pointed to prolonged sound and basic materials before musical pieces. 4) Performances and contests were quite active regularly every year and were much valued by schools, communities, and the county government. 5) Tutors thought that it could enhance the members’ experiences, stagecraft, cooperation, and wills of practice through performing and participation in contests, but over and inappropriate ones would frustrate the students. And 6) the common problem was the insufficiency of new members. III. The Situations of the students’ learning were: 1) Students had high motives and positive attitudes. 2) Most students preferred listening to the practicing songs and enjoy it a lot. 3) Most students thought that they played the instruments quite skillfully. 4) Most students had positive attitudes toward performances and contests. 5) Most students agreed to the group regulation. 6) Most students would actively practice instruments after school 7) Most were willing to join bands after graduation. 8) Girls had higher motives than boys to join bands and boys were superior to girls in repertoire studying, skills practicing, performance, and contests. 9) Seventh graders had higher motives than the eighth graders. 10) Musical major instruments and additional musical instrument learning experiences of students had no differences in their opinions. 11) Owning personal instruments had differences in the whole dimension and sub-dimensions such as “motives of joining bands”, “performances and contests”. And 12) There were differences of group regulations in students who ever joined bands in primary schools or not. According to the conclusion, some suggestions were proposed about the training of bands, and future studies. Keywords: wind bands of junior high schools, training of bands, learning motive