Thursday, June 11, 2015

Zombie survey

The survey just won't die.

I am thinking that we need to do something more experimental with the fingering exercises. In including the full exercises, it occurs to me that we could include a few exercises with Czerny's fingerings included. This plus a measure of variability would give us a way to measure the influence and see how far it reaches across hand sizes. I really think this is worth doing, but how do we pick the exercises that tip their hands? The pieces with the highest and lowest variability? Randomly?

Having timing information would also be useful--if we randomly show fingerings or not (and make it so the surveys are not uniform). I know Barbara will worry about this, as we will need more subjects to say anything with statistical significance. Can we mitigate this somehow?

We have 7 exercises. In half the surveys (the experimental group), we show 3 fingered exercises and 4 unfingered.  In the other half (the control group), all pieces are unfingered. The pieces are displayed in random order.

Throw out the piece with three voices?

I also want to ask about specific pieces that we actually have transcriptions for (or are willing to commit to transcribe). The idea is to take the intersection of a university or publisher "standard baroque/classical repertoire" and the contents available at MuseScore. We could even provide links to the current transcriptions, since I am not sure how memorable the titles are going to be, even to people who know the pieces well.

Is there a "standard" Czerny method that competes with Hanon? Are there any other comparable methods with significant mindshare?


1 comment:

  1. I have decided to focus on WTC and the Goldberg Variations because high-quality symbolic scores exist for them in MuseScore. A stab at finding a broader repertoire is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/197VHGXWdMrjb-lcUjNOImgpURBJRR1j1_Lm-2z9DtCA/view#gid=0 .

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