MA research Questionnaire.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I just wish that some MA student would do research into "audience satisfaction" with R3.

Just let me at it ...............

[Pulcinella]

Go on! Have fun, Pulcie!

Rubber arm twisted: I will.


PS: Have done!
Not quite as simplistic as I feared.

[MrGongGong]

Well, I know neither the student nor the supervisor, but I would suspect that the latter did indeed help with the setting up of the format of the questionnaire, Pulcie (and it's almost certain that she tested it "on a few friends").

I doubt it would be Prof Moore

Though it's important to NOT make a judgement about an institution based on scant evidence

For me, the whole fundamental basis was misjudged ... which in some ways is a relief as it probably means that I can still get gigs which demonstrate why this might be so (glass half full and all that)

They DO some great things at Sheffield

This also chimes with some of the discussion about this report which has been massively misquoted and misunderstood in the media but spawned some interesting debate

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/22/school-music-lessons-should-cover-hip-hop-and-grime-says-charity

https://medium.com/@MichellejJames1/stormzy-vs-mozart-6dd8df771be2?fbclid=IwAR3aTNn4W7DAS0LhqJKSDMk56fXaAKG27PaPoxjsxWbfFTmjCq27sf1SOSM

and what it actually says

https://www.youthmusic.org.uk/exchanging-notes?fbclid=IwAR0Mh5XjAxOi2auYyGmZMrKmNaUx3WqoLT2_WI7Z-xAi6J8kw4DmZ5xOXEI

[cloughie]

I just wish that some MA student would do research into "audience satisfaction" with R3.

Just let me at it ...............

Perhaps you could contact her prof and set the hare running!

[MrGongGong]

Perhaps you could contact her prof and set the hare running!

Maybe this could herald the return of Prof Says ?

[edashtav]

Very disappointing and assumed that everyone thought about music in historical periods

[cloughie]

Maybe this could herald the return of Prof Says ?

What’s that?

[Richard Barrett]

I started filling it in but then gave up, there were as has been said too many assumptions being made. I could spend half a day writing a detailed and considered response to what I think could have been done, but tbh mentoring Masters students is something I already spend some considerable time on and get paid for, so I think I'll leave it to you good people!

[french frank]

Very disappointing and assumed that everyone thought about music in historical periods

I found the questions open-ended enough for assumptions not to matter. There didn't seem to be any limit to the length of answers so one was quite able to say: "I don't think of it like that at all: the way I think of it/what is more important to me is … " That seems to me just as valid and just as valuable to a research project which is only trying to find out what people think/feel themselves - not what their opinion is of the questions/assumptions. And indeed discover their preferences if they have any and whether people think about why they like/dislike.

[cloughie]

I started filling it in but then gave up, there were as has been said too many assumptions being made. I could spend half a day writing a detailed and considered response to what I think could have been done, but tbh mentoring Masters students is something I already spend some considerable time on and get paid for, so I think I'll leave it to you good people!

I’m sure your musical history, experience and achievements would be really useful to the researcher.
You could give them a freebie for once!

[Zucchini]

I found the questions open-ended enough for assumptions not to matter. There didn't seem to be any limit to the length of answers so one was quite able to say: "I don't think of it like that at all: the way I think of it/what is more important to me is … " That seems to me just as valid and just as valuable to a research project which is only trying to find out what people think/feel themselves - not what their opinion is of the questions/assumptions. And indeed discover their preferences if they have any and whether people think about why they like/dislike.

Totally agree with that ff.
It took me about 7mins to give concise and honest answers.

[Richard Barrett]

I’m sure your musical history, experience and achievements would be really useful to the researcher.
You could give them a freebie for once!

The other thing is I guess I'm not really the kind of person whose opinions orchestral programmers are ever going to take seriously! I'll have another look though...

[Richard Tarleton]

Living as I do in the sticks, I've worked out that my own orchestral concert-going preferences depend on a calculus involving three, and increasingly four, variables - these being the works being played, who's performing them, the distance to the venue, and (increasingly, with age) whether I can be bothered. Distance - my three usual venues are 40 (Swansea), 74 (Cardiff) and 197 (London) miles away. There are things and people I'd travel to Swansea or Cardiff for but not London. Haitink at 75, at the Barbican - multiple trips to London, a no-brainer. If I were Caliban living within a cycle ride of the RAH I might pop along to all sorts of Proms, but as it is the risk of disappointment totally outweighs the investment. A fifth variable - how many time one has heard a particular work live, and who played by - also creeps in.

I hope this helps!

[french frank]

Totally agree with that ff.

Bound to happen sooner or later .