This table presents a report of all compositions evaluated in the new study. Included with the composer's name and title of the work are the number of evaluators who rated the work, the total number of points the composition received and the mean score. The last figure is the percentage of the maximum number of points the work received. The following information may be helpful in interpreting the data presented in the last four columns.

Acton Ostling, in developing the proceedures for the original study, chose to use a modified five point Likert Summated Rating Scale as the means for recording the ratings of the compositions by the evaluators. Ostling states that "Since the Likert-type scale generally involves the measurement of attitudes in terms of the strength of a particular attitude, it also can be adapted to measure the strength of agreement or disagreement on the significance of a composition as one of serious artistic merit. The general use of an attitude scale is to measure the strength of reaction, such as like-dislike, agree-disagree, accept-reject, to items which give statements of psychological attitude. The subject responds with degrees of intensity. In this study the strength of agreement or disagreement was measured as a reaction to a specific wind-band composition.

One of the changes which was necessary in adapting the Likert-type rating scale to this study was the establishment of both an "unknown" and an "undecided" column for responses. In the general use of an attitude scale, of course, the response of "unknown" is not possible in reacting to a printed statement, only the response of "undecided" or "indifferent." The rating scale developed for use in this study established a column of "0" as representing a title not known to the evaluator, while the column "3" represented a title known to the evaluator, but indicated an undecided reaction to the composition as one of serious artistic merit. The complete scale was organized as follows: 0--the composition is not familiar, 1--strongly disagree that the composition meets the criteria of serious artistic merit, 2--disagree that the composition meets the criteria of serious artistic merit, 3--undecided as to the serious artistic merit of this composition, 4--agree that the composition meets the criteria of serious artistic merit, and 5--strongly agree that the composition meets the criteria of serious artistic merit."

R                 Is the number of evaluators who rated the composition. There were twenty evaluators involved in the evaluation of these works. Therefore the number 20 in that column would indicate that a work was familiar to all of the evauators. A zero (0) signfies that the work was not familiar to any of the evaluators.

TP               Is the total number of points a composition received from the evaluators. It represents the sum of all the evaluator ratings. Each composition rated on a scale of one (1) to five (5). The maximum number of total points a composition could recieve is 100 (twenty evaluators each giving the composition a rating of 5).