The Investigation of Piano Graded Examination for Piano Beginners－“Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music”and “Yamaha Piano Graded Examination”

• Main Authors: Mi Li Kuang, 鄺蜜莉
• Other Authors: 黃勤恩
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98121255190752588690

碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 音樂教育學系碩士班 === 93 === This research is to investigate and analyze how do “the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music” and “Yamaha Piano Graded Examination” implement their teaching, what’s the status quo, how students view the exams, how they evaluate whether the exam is difficult or not, and so on. This study has used purposive sampling measure to choose and inquire 196 Taiwan piano beginners who've attended at these exams. Then apply descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOV and Scheffe post-hoc test to analyze and digest the collected data. The results are following: 1) Those kinds of exams organized by “Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music” and “Yamaha” have been more and more rising, which indicate music learners assume positive attitudes to the piano graded examinations. 2) The main purpose for students to take those exams is to cultivate some interests for piano and evaluate their learning. 3) Students generally think that playing the self-selecting pieces is difficult because of being unable to control the playing skills. Consequently, teachers should enhance students' basic practices. 4) Students of Yamaha music classes have better abilities of music sense and harmony concepts than general students. But they still have to strengthen the ability of playing and sight-reading. 5) There was a apparent diversity of viewpoints to the difficulty degrees of piano graded examination contents among students study of different grades, piano learning years and living areas. 6) There was no apparent diversity of viewpoints to the difficulty degrees of piano graded examination contents between different genders and examination grades.