The Good Musician

Feedback for musical growth

by csnowden on May 4th, 2008

The Texas Choral Directors Association publishes the member magazine Texas Sings!. The latest issue features an article by Dr. Debbie Rohward from the University of North Texas on the importance of clear, attenuated, immediate, and appropriate feedback to further improvement. We all know that negative feedback results in negative understanding and growth. Rohward suggests that the good music teacher focuses student attention on specific and attainable goals on which to build musical competency.

Examining a musical component such as pitch, tone quality, dynamics, and the like helps build an aural framework that the musician can build on, and leads to competent independent learning.

POSTED IN: Music education, Pedagogy, Performance practices