title: [Receptive musical aptitude using a binaural frequency discrimination test].
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.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Technischen Universität Dresden, Deutschland.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tymnik
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pabst
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001076:Aptitude; D001288:Attention; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D010897:Pitch Discrimination; D012016:Reference Values; D013018:Sound Spectrography
vernacular_title: Untersuchungen zur rezeptiven Musikalität mit Hilfe eines binauralen Frequenzdiskriminationstestes.