Resumen de The effect of lip synching on musicians´ ability to detect errors in a choral score
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether lip synching (moving one's mouth but not making audible noise) would affect musicians' ability to detect errors in a choral score. University music education majors (N = 60) listened to eight excerpts of choral music that included purposefully inserted errors and were asked to (a) lip sync the text while listening to four of the excerpts, and (b) just to listen to the other four excerpts. They listed any errors they perceived in the score. Results indicated that lip synching had no effect on musicians' ability to detect errors (p > .05). Participants correctly identified significantly more errors in the soprano line than in the bass line (p < .001). There was a significant three-way interaction between order, lip-sync condition, and voicing, indicating that participants performed better on the second task, irrespective of lip-sync condition, but only with soprano errors.
