An Investigation of Teacher Initiated Listening Activities in the Elementary General Music Classroom

• Main Author: Baldridge, William Russell
• Other Authors: Froehlich, Hildegard C.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1981
• Subjects: music listening; music teachers; elementary school music classes; Music > Instruction and study > Juvenile.; Listening.; School music > Instruction and study.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331104/

This study investigated how and to what extent music listening was initiated by elementary general music teachers. The specific problems of the study were (1) identification of activities and materials related to music listening and (2) the determination of how and to what extent assigned and assumed music listening was initiated in the selected classrooms. Systematic observation was chosen to investigate these problems. An observation instrument, the Elementary Music Listening Schedule (EMLS), was developed by which eighteen elementary general music teachers were observed during ten lessons.