[Receptive musical aptitude using a binaural frequency discrimination test]

Author(s): Tymnik, G., Pabst, F.

Journal/Book: Folia Phoniatr Logop. 1995; 47: 236-41 1021-7762.

Abstract: Musical aptitude is the most important precondition for any applicant taking up studies at a music conservatory. Thus, the applicants are tested and assessed very thoroughly by experienced music teachers. To support these subjective results by objective data a procedure was developed allowing to test both the examinee's frequency and octave discrimination capacity in a simple way. In a 1-Hz cycle the frequencies f1 and f2 are directed mutually to the right and left ear, respectively, at a defined sound level. Then the examinee is asked to syntonize e.g. frequency equality f1 = f2 (or f1 = 2 x f2). It can be shown that there is a direct correlation between the amount of deviation from nominal frequency and subjective assessment of musicality.

Note: Untersuchungen zur rezeptiven Musikalitat mit Hilfe eines binauralen Frequenzdiskriminationstestes.

Keyword(s): Adult ; Attention ; English Abstract; Reference Values; Sound Spectrography Aptitude ; Dichotic Listening Tests; Music ; Pitch Discrimination Female; Human; Male

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