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THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INITIATE A PROGRAM FOR TEACHING MUSIC READING SKILLS, USING THE PIANO KEYBOARD IN COMBINATION WITH PROGRAMED LEARNING, AND TO COMPARE IT WITH CONVENTIONAL METHODS OF MUSIC INSTRUCTION. FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH GRADERS AT ONE CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOL COMPRISED THE CONTROL GROUP RECEIVING CONVENTIONAL MUSIC READING INSTRUCTION. THE SAME GRADES AT ANOTHER CLEVELAND SCHOOL WERE THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP FOLLOWING THE LEARNING PROCEDURES DEVELOPED BY THE AUTHOR. THE EXPERIMENT WAS PERFORMED OVER 2 SEMESTERS, THE SECOND SEMESTER REPEATING THE MATERIAL COVERED IN THE FIRST. ALL GROUPS WERE TESTED IN 5 AREAS OF MUSIC KNOWLEDGE. THEY TOOK A PRETEST BEFORE THE FIRST SEMESTER, A POSTTEST BEFORE THE SECOND SEMESTER, AND A TERMINAL TEST AFTER THE SECOND SEMESTER. THE MANN-WHITNEY "U" TEST WAS USED TO ANALYZE DATA OBTAINED. TEST RESULTS IN AREAS 1 AND 2, STAFF KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE OF TONAL ORGANIZATION, WERE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER FOR EXPERIMENTAL STUDENTS THAN FOR CONTROL STUDENTS. RESULTS IN THE OTHER 3 AREAS REVEALED THAT TYPICAL METHODS ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL AND THAT THE AUTHOR'S METHOD HAS POTENTIAL, THOUGH IT NEEDS TO BE FURTHER DEVELOPED. THE RELIABILITY OF THE TESTS WAS DETERMINED BY KUDER-RICHARDSON RELIABILITY COEFFICIENTS AND SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS. (MS)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert