Abstract
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of membership in secondary school music performance organisations on student capability to select appropriate verbal responses describ- ing perceptions of musical components. A questionnaire, portions of Gordon's Musical Aptitude Profile (MAP), and an original "Musical Verbal Descriptor Profile" (MVDP) were administered to 892 members of bands, choruses, orchestras and to control groups consisting of ninth through twelfth-grade students with no high school music performance experience. The primary analysis of the data indicated that there was a significant difference between participants in secondary school music ensembles and non-participants in terms of their ability to select appropriate common or musical vernacular descriptions of recorded musical events.
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