Evaluation of musical ability

a) Preliminary tasks:
  Grison scale (6)4
 Verbal dichotic listening test (40)Left 90%
 Recognition of non-musical sounds:
  Human noises (10)100%
  Animal sounds (10)100%
  Ambient noises (10)90%
 Prosodic emotional tone interpretation:
  Meaningful sentences (10)90%
  Meaningless sentences (10)80%
b) Musical perception tasks:
 Recognition of familiar melody (20)5%
 Bentley's test:
  Pitch discrimination (20)60%
  Tonal memory (10)30%
  Chord analysis (20)75%
  Rhythmic memory (10)90%
 Recognition of musical characteristics:
  Musical instruments (10)90%
  Intensity (10)90%
  Ascending and descending scales (10)100%
  Familiar rhythms (10)100%
c) Musical production tasks:
 Reproduction of a rhythm with a reflex hummer (10)80%
 Stambak test (38)87%
 Spontaneous singing (10)0%
 Reproduction of familiar melody (20)0%
 Spontaneous guitar performance (10)0%
 Instrumental reproduction of a familiar melody (10)0%
 Instrumental reproduction of a unknown melody (10)0%
  • Results are percentage of correct responses (number of trials in parentheses).