Konferenzpaper

Erschienen in: Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10

Herausgeberliste: Parncutt, Richard; Sattmann, Sabrina

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2018

Seiten: 160-163

ISBN: 978-3-200-05771-5

URL: https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/veranstaltungen/music-psychology-conference2018/documents/ICMPC15_ESCOM10%20Proceedings.pdf

Konferenz: 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC15) and the 10th triennial conference
of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM10)

Abstract: 

This study surveyed highly gifted young people who participated at the national level in the annual "Jugend musiziert" (youth making music) contest in Germany. Some previous large-scale studies from the 1990ies have dealt with the participants of the "Jugend musiziert" contest, their socio-cultural background, motivation, their experiences with music etc. Since then, only very few studies have been published. The aim of the present survey is to gain a deeper up-to-date insight into the socio-cultural contexts, motivation, interests, music preferences, personalities, leisure activities etc. of the participants at the national level of the contest "Jugend musiziert". Furthermore, aspects like health and wellbeing, preferences, stage-fright are included as well. The evaluation of data is not finished yet, the present paper focuses on general information about the social background and the familiar atmosphere of the young musicians. A 16-pages standardized paper-pencil questionnaire was administered to ca. 2,260 participants at the national level "Jugend musiziert" contest in 2017. A number of 1,143 valid questionnaires was returned. The young musicians (aged 9 to 24; M = 15.1; SD = 2.14) came from families with clear above-average academic education, with parents strongly interested in music. They had an above-average number of brothers and sisters, who mostly also played instruments. The vast majority of parents had no music-related occupation. The parents and the family as "persons in the shadow" provided a rich music-oriented sociotope, which values and intensively supports music activities, so that children are enabled to unfold their musical giftedness to excellence. These preliminary findings suggest that future research should study the role and contributions of the "persons in the shadow" for a better understanding not only of the development of musical excellence, but also of possible negative effects that can occur through too much pressure in the promotion of particularly gifted children and adolescents.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Gembris, H. and Bullerjahn, C. (2018) A large scale study on the participants of the “Jugend musiziert” music competition: Starting points and questions, in Parncutt, R. and Sattmann, S. (eds.) Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10. Graz: Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz. pp. 160-163. https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/veranstaltungen/music-psychology-conference2018/documents/ICMPC15_ESCOM10%20Proceedings.pdf

APA-Zitierstil: Gembris, H., & Bullerjahn, C. (2018). A large scale study on the participants of the “Jugend musiziert” music competition: Starting points and questions. In Parncutt, R., & Sattmann, S. (Eds.), Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10. (pp. 160-163). Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz. https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/veranstaltungen/music-psychology-conference2018/documents/ICMPC15_ESCOM10%20Proceedings.pdf