I tested the so-called “Musical Talents” of pupils of several middle-schools and students of a university, using for the purpose
Seashore's Musical Talent Tests, which consist of six sub-tests; the sense of pitch, intensity, time, consonance, rhythm, and the tonal memory. The first aim of my study was to investigate the correlations between musical talents and general mental development, and the second to ascertain the intercorrelations among the six tests and the results of the musical examinations of one middle-school. Finally, I intended to determine the number of factors and their loadings of these tests, and personal types based on them, using
Thurstone's “Multiple Factor Technique” and its inverted application.
The main results are as follows:
1. The correlations between musical testresults and maturity are generally low, and the difference between the sexes is insignificant.
2. The sense of intensity attained the largest mean. This fact reveals the generality and easiness of the test. The consonance and tonal memory tests had the smallest mean.
3. The correlation coefficients among the six tests are not the same, nor are they so large. The correlations between pitch and the other tests are relatively large, but it is very small between consonance and the others, etc. Probably this indicates the specialities of these tests.
4. These tests were factorized in three; the first-the General Broad Factorseeming to show the most important musical bearing of the tests, the second and the third the special narrow group factors. Among these tests pitch and tonal memory have the first factor loadings relatively larger than that of time, rhythm, and the others, and the personal differences depend upon those two tests, which have the larger first factor loadings.
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