The Musical Ear Test, a new reliable test for measuring musical competence

By Mikkel Wallentin, Andreas Højlund Nielsen, Morten Friis-Olivarius, Christian Vuust, Peter Vuust. 2010

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article i nfo This paper reports results from three experiments using the Musical Ear Test (MET), a new test designed for measuring musical abilities in both musicians and non-musicians in an objective way with a relatively short duration (b20 min.). In the first experiment we show how the MET is capable of clearly distinguishing between a group of professional musicians and a group of non-musicians. In the second experiment we demonstrate that results from the MET are strongly correlated with measures of musical expertise obtained using an imitation test. In the third experiment we show that the MET also clearly distinguishes groups of non-musicians, amateurs and professional musicians. The test is found to have a large internal consistency (Cronbach alpha: 0.87). We further show a correlation with amount of practice within the group of professionals as well as a correlation with a forward digit span test.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Music, Rehabilitation

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The Musicality of Non-Musicians: An Index for Assessing Musical Sophistication in the General Population (2014, methodology): “The Musical Ear Test [12] employs a very similar experimental paradigm and stimuli, but tests melody and rhythm perception with two different subtests.”
Psychometric properties and heritability of a new online test for musicality, the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test (2014, unknown): “Impressively high Cronbach ' s alpha values have been reported for the subtests of the Musical Ear Test ( Melody : .”
Individual differences in rhythmic ability: Behavioral and neuroimaging investigations. (2012, background): “First, musical training is associated with higher auditory STM capacity (Bailey & Penhune, 2010; Chan, Yim-Chi, & Cheung, 1998; Wallentin et al., 2010; Williamson, Baddeley, & Hitch, 2010), so may have an influence on rhythmic ability by simply increasing STM capacity.”
Revisiting the association between music lessons and intelligence: Training effects or music aptitude? ☆ (2017, methodology): “These findings replicate and extend those reported from samples in Denmark (Wallentin et al., 2010), France (Bhatara et al., 2015), and the United States (Slevc et al., 2016), in which both melody- and rhythm-aptitude advantages were evident among musically trained participants despite marked…”
Working memory and musical competence of musicians and non-musicians (2013, methodology): “In the study by Wallentin et al. (2010a), the age-matched amateurs and experts significantly differed regarding age of onset of instrument practice, likely reflecting a greater difference of instrument experience than that observed in the current study.”