Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Paul, Phyllis M.
URN	etd-09222003-200255
Title	Children's Emotional Responsiveness To Music As Measured By The Continuous Response Digital Interface And Verbal Response
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Music, School of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Clifford K. Madsen Committee Chair Carol Lynch-Brown Committee Member Dianne Gregory Committee Member Jayne Standley Committee Member Judy Bowers Committee Member
Keywords	Emotional Responsiveness Of Children To Music
Date of Defense	2003-08-02
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the emotional responsiveness of elementary aged children to music. Sixty students participated from three intact classes of public school fourth graders. While listening to Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43, Variation 18, by Sergei Rachmaninoff, students indicated their aesthetic reactions by manipulating the dial of the Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI). Immediately after the listening exercise, using a highly flexible retrospective interview process to allow for maximum individualized response, subjects’ verbal responses were recorded and later transcribed. The study was also an exploration of the CRDI as a tool for measuring aesthetic response from younger students. The object of the investigation was not to focus on group results as they pertain to prediction of attitude, behavior, or preference but to provide the music educator and therapist with individualized, descriptive information regarding the emotional responses of young children to a musical stimulus. The study did in fact indicate that music elicited deeply emotional responses from these elementary-aged children. As evidenced by their poignant verbal responses, fourth grade students in this investigation were able to make immediate, highly personal, and completely individualized emotional connections after hearing an unfamiliar piece of music one time. The CRDI proved to be an effective, efficient method for gathering aesthetic response data from fourth grade students. Such information would seem to provide a consequential contribution to our understanding of the young child’s emotional interactions with, and reactions to, music and can serve as a tool to enhance our ability to develop those responses.
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