Re: [AUDITORY] Recommendations for instruments to assess music training?

[Massimo Grassi <massimo.grassi@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Gordon,

there are various ways (and yet not a standard way) to assess the level of musical training of a person (see references below for an extended discussion).

My personal recommendation is to use the Gold-MSI (Müllensiefen et al., 2014), 38 self-assessment items about musical training but also about the relationship with music. It is widely used, so you can compare your data with the rest of the research.

Müllensiefen, D., Gingras, B., Musil, J., & Stewart, L. (2014). The Musicality of Non-Musicians: An Index for Assessing Musical Sophistication in the General Population. PLOS ONE, 9(2), e89642. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089642

Zhang, J. D., & Schubert, E. (2019). A Single Item Measure for Identifying Musician and Nonmusician Categories Based on Measures of Musical Sophistication. Music Perception, 36(5), 457–467. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2019.36.5.457
Zhang, J. D., Susino, M., McPherson, G. E., & Schubert, E. (2020). The definition of a musician in music psychology: A literature review and the six-year rule. Psychology of Music, 48(3), 389–409. https://doi.org/10.1177/030573561880403

 

Best,

m

Il giorno sab 28 dic 2024 alle ore 06:09 Gordon, Michael <GORDONM10@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Dear List,

 

I am emailing to request your recommendations on assessment tools and surveys that could effectively help us gauge the level of musical training our participants may have received earlier in their lives. Specifically, we are interested in understanding the extent of their training, the intensity and variety of that training, and the duration of their musical experience.

 

Do you have any preferred tools or resources for this type of assessment? I’ll happily post a summary next week of anything that you provide.

 

 

Thank you for your time and insights. I look forward to your suggestions.

 

Mike

 

 

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Dr. Michael Gordon

Professor of Psychology

William Paterson University

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