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Update: Applications of Research in Music Education
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An Individualized Problem-Solving Approach for Teaching Choral Phrase Shaping

An Experimental Study

Paul Broomhead

Brigham Young University, paul_broomhead{at}byu.edu

This experiment tested a treatment designed to improve choral students' expressiveness regarding keyword emphasis and phrase shaping. The treatment was founded upon the constructivist belief that students actively construct conceptual knowledge through problem solving. Participants were 46 university students randomly selected from a nonauditioned choir. A time-series design and backward-elimination ANOVA was used to produce and analyze the data. A treatment effect was found for both keyword emphasis and phrase shaping. Implications suggest that choral educators may increase students' ability and propensity to independently interpret music in terms of keyword emphasis and phrase shaping by providing problem-solving opportunities to students.

Key Words: Expressive performance • problem solving • constructivism • independent musicianship • expressive responsibility • expressive opportunity • student autonomy • speech prosody • vocal inflection • phrase shaping • expressive achievement

Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Vol. 27, No. 2, 52-61 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/8755123308329869
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