Abstract
Music sight-reading is a valuable skill that eludes and frustrates many musicians. Techniques for teaching sight-reading are varied, with teachers mostly falling back on personal experience or simply hoping that, somehow, the penny will drop for the student. This study reports on a survey of the music learning and playing habits of expert and non-expert piano sight-readers. Pianists were categorised as ‘experts’ according to their ability to perfectly perform a 6th Grade AMEB (Australian Music Examinations Board) sight-reading assessment piece. This grouping was determined by the analysis of eye movement patterns as pianists performed various sight-reading tasks (Arthur 2017). The data show significant differences in musical training and performance experiences between the two groups.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 447-456 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Music Education Research |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- education
- eye
- movements
- performance
- piano
- sight-reading (music)