ABSTRACT

The study aims to analyze the differences in eye movements during perusal time prior to sight-reading according to musical structure and sight-reading ability. To this end, 19 pre-service elementary school teachers read a single-line melody, a melody in parallel motion, and a melody with harmonic accompaniment through a Tobii Pro X2-60 eye tracker installed at the bottom of the computer monitor and played the electronic piano with a 10-second perusal time. Then, their eye movements during the perusal time were analyzed. The results showed that eye movements during the perusal time differed according to musical structure and sight-reading ability. The more complex the music, the more and longer the total fixation number and total fixation duration are in skilled sight-readers, whereas the less and shorter they are in less skilled sight-readers. Second, skilled sight-readers skim all the measures although concentrating on the first measure, whereas less skilled sight-readers mostly read the first and second measures. Third, when reading melodies, skilled sight-readers read the relationship between notes, whereas less skilled sight-readers read focusing on notes. Fourth, when reading music with a two-hand structure, skilled sight-readers gaze more and longer on the right-hand area than on the left-hand area, whereas less skilled sight-readers gaze more on the left-hand area than on the right-hand area.

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