Programed Instruction in Score Reading Skills

undergraduate training, intended to develop aural-visual discrimination, centers around such basic musicianship courses as ear training and sightsinging. Although these traditional courses are considered fundamental to the development of score-reading abilities and aural-visual discrimination, the content and effectiveness of such courses have been challenged regarding their adequacy in developing these skills.1 An examination of the basic musicianship course content at the undergraduate level has been undertaken by the Contemporary Music Project.2 A report of the project notes that3 . a synthesis rarely occurs between courses within the general area of musicianship or between musicianship courses and professional studies. ... As a high school instrumental teacher, for example, his primary function will be that of a conductor, yet his main college training is not in conducting and other