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Download or read book Influence of Conductor Behavior on Listeners' Perception of Expressiveness written by Lewes Thomas Peddell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purposes of this study were: (a) investigate how subjects' expressiveness ratings were influenced various modes of conductor behavior; (b) evaluate and identify factors that influenced subjects' ratings, and; (c) assess the effectiveness of a Personal Digital Assistant with Continual Responses Digital Interface software (i.e., PDA-CRDI) to measure subjects' expressiveness ratings. Subjects (N = 116) were undergraduate nonmusic majors (n = 50), undergraduate music majors, (n = 42) and graduate music majors (n = 24), enrolled in a large Midwest state university.