Accession Number:
AD0739648
Title:
Training the Absolute Identification of Pitch,
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Corporate Author:
QUEEN'S UNIV KINGSTON (ONTARIO)
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Report Date:
1969-11-20
Pagination or Media Count:
5.0
Abstract:
Two methods for training the absolute judgment of pitch, reference training and series training, were studied. Reference training concentrated during training on the identification of three reference tones in a set of nine pure tones, while series training gave equal weight during training to the identification of all nine tones. Results of pre- and posttraining tests, scored for the number of correct judgments, showed that reference training was more effective than series training for listeners with musical experience. In addition, discriminability d scaling of pre- and posttest performance indicated that reference training was particularly effective for training listeners with musical experience when the nine tones of a set were grouped into three pitch classes-high, medium, and low pitch. Listeners without musical experience benefited from both training methods, but their overall improvement was less than that for musical listeners. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Psychology