Dear List,
I want to express my gratitude for your ideas and recommendations! Special thanks to Massimo Grassi, Ani Patel, Bob Slevc, and Bryan Nichols for their thoughtful responses.
Below are some tools to consider when assessing musical training and background for participants:
- Musical Sophistication Scale – Gold MSI (listed first given its widespread adoption)
- 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, e89642.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089642
- Ollen Music Sophistication Index (OMSI)
- Assessing Music Expertise: The Berlin Gehörbildung Scale
- Lin, Z., Werner, A., Lindenberger, U., Brandmaier, A. M., & Wenger, E. (2021).
Assessing music expertise: The Berlin Gehörbildung Scale. Music Perception, 38(4), 406–421.
https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2021.38.4.406
- The Edinburgh Lifetime Musical Experience Questionnaire
- Okely, J. A., Deary, I. J., & Overy, K. (2021).
The Edinburgh Lifetime Musical Experience Questionnaire (ELMEQ): Responses and non-musical correlates in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.
PLOS ONE, 16(7), e0254176.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254176
- Montreal Battery for Evaluation of Musical Abilities (MBEMA)
- Peretz, I., Gosselin, N., Nan, Y., Caron-Caplette, E., Trehub, S. E., & Béland, R. (2013).
A novel tool for evaluating children's musical abilities across age and culture.
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7, 30.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2013.00030
Additionally, a very helpful resource is:
Thank you again, and Happy New Year!
Mike
Dr. Michael Gordon
Professor of Psychology
William Paterson University
Gordonm10@xxxxxxxxx
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