Perception on sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM / Sharifah Amira Syed Mohamad Hafiz

The purpose of this study is to identify the perception of sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM, Shah Alam. This study involved students from Diploma, Degree Education, Degree Performance, and Degree Composition. Objectives of this study were: I) to find out the understanding of sight-singing...

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Main Author: Syed Mohamad Hafiz, Sharifah Amira
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Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling my-uitm-ir.278662024-04-30T03:10:07Z Perception on sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM / Sharifah Amira Syed Mohamad Hafiz 2013 Syed Mohamad Hafiz, Sharifah Amira Vocal music Music in colleges and universities The purpose of this study is to identify the perception of sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM, Shah Alam. This study involved students from Diploma, Degree Education, Degree Performance, and Degree Composition. Objectives of this study were: I) to find out the understanding of sight-singing among vocal students, 2) to investigate the weaknesses of vocal students in sight-singing and 3) To explore ways to improve sight-singing skills among vocal students. The data was collected through questionnaire. As a result, many vocal students at Faculty of Music, Shah Alam did not realize the benefits of sight-singing towards their lessons. The problems of this matter also has been obtained through the questionnaire where they were lack of exercise, did not get formal class for sight-singing, and most of them learnt their new piece by listening to the recordings rather than by sight-singing. There are several ways I suggest to students to improve their sight-singing skill such as starting their vocal class with sight singing. Lecturers can give them simple melodies to help them to get use to sight-singing, involve in ensemble such as choir, they must have sight-singing classes with same importance level such as aural, music theory, and principal class, etc. 2013 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27866/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27866/2/27866.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Music
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
topic Vocal music
Music in colleges and universities
spellingShingle Vocal music
Music in colleges and universities
Syed Mohamad Hafiz, Sharifah Amira
Perception on sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM / Sharifah Amira Syed Mohamad Hafiz
description The purpose of this study is to identify the perception of sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM, Shah Alam. This study involved students from Diploma, Degree Education, Degree Performance, and Degree Composition. Objectives of this study were: I) to find out the understanding of sight-singing among vocal students, 2) to investigate the weaknesses of vocal students in sight-singing and 3) To explore ways to improve sight-singing skills among vocal students. The data was collected through questionnaire. As a result, many vocal students at Faculty of Music, Shah Alam did not realize the benefits of sight-singing towards their lessons. The problems of this matter also has been obtained through the questionnaire where they were lack of exercise, did not get formal class for sight-singing, and most of them learnt their new piece by listening to the recordings rather than by sight-singing. There are several ways I suggest to students to improve their sight-singing skill such as starting their vocal class with sight singing. Lecturers can give them simple melodies to help them to get use to sight-singing, involve in ensemble such as choir, they must have sight-singing classes with same importance level such as aural, music theory, and principal class, etc.
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author Syed Mohamad Hafiz, Sharifah Amira
author_facet Syed Mohamad Hafiz, Sharifah Amira
author_sort Syed Mohamad Hafiz, Sharifah Amira
title Perception on sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM / Sharifah Amira Syed Mohamad Hafiz
title_short Perception on sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM / Sharifah Amira Syed Mohamad Hafiz
title_full Perception on sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM / Sharifah Amira Syed Mohamad Hafiz
title_fullStr Perception on sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM / Sharifah Amira Syed Mohamad Hafiz
title_full_unstemmed Perception on sight-singing among vocal students at UiTM / Sharifah Amira Syed Mohamad Hafiz
title_sort perception on sight-singing among vocal students at uitm / sharifah amira syed mohamad hafiz
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
granting_department Faculty of Music
publishDate 2013
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27866/2/27866.pdf
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