Prevalence of absolute pitch: A comparison between Japanese and Polish music students
| Autor: | Ken'ichi Miyazaki, Andrzej Rakowski, Sylwia Makomaska |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
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Adolescent Acoustics and Ultrasonics Electric organ Acoustics Musical Developmental psychology Pitch Discrimination Musical acoustics Young Adult Discrimination Psychological Audiometry Japan Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Humans Child Students Solfège Analysis of Variance Piano Age Factors Absolute pitch Recognition Psychology Middle Aged Test (assessment) Acoustic Stimulation Child Preschool Poland Singing Psychology Music |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 132:3484-3493 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| Popis: | Comparable large-scale surveys including an on-site pitch-naming test were conducted with music students in Japan and Poland to obtain more convincing estimates of the prevalence of absolute pitch (AP) and examine how musical experience relates to AP. Participants with accurate AP (95% correct identification) accounted for 30% of the Japanese music students, but only 7% of the Polish music students. This difference in the performance of pitch naming was related to the difference in musical experience. Participants with AP had begun music training at an earlier age (6 years or earlier), and the average year of commencement of musical training was more than 2 years earlier for the Japanese music students than for the Polish students. The percentage of participants who had received early piano lessons was 94% for the Japanese musically trained students but was 72% for the Polish music students. Approximately one-third of the Japanese musically trained students had attended the Yamaha Music School, where lessons on piano or electric organ were given to preschool children in parallel with fixed-do solfe`ge singing training. Such early music instruction was not as common in Poland. The relationship of AP with early music training is discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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