[Dixielandjazz] How well do you hear music?

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

This test is curious.  It does not, in my case, have much retest  
reliability.  I took it about a year ago, scored somewhere in high normal  range, took it 
again a few hours later and increased my score by about  25 per cent as I 
recall.  I don't consider tone deafness  correctable in a matter of hours.  Focus 
IS correctable within minutes  or hours.  I agree it is testing musical 
memory which Jake  Mandell says it does during his discussion in other web pages.   
Just took it again tonight, was back to high normal. LOL.  It was also  
interesting in reviewing the results that I missed 5 of the last 8.   Did the last 
8 suddenly get more complex or was there another  variable?  Could not find 
anything about whether the last samples were  considered more complex.  I 
suppose from the standpoint of research, once  Mandell defines his terms then his 
test can measure relative to his definition,  then he can have conclusions.  But 
from a research point of view their  are various kinds of validity and 
reliability.
Ginny 
 
 
In a message dated 11/29/2008 9:14:21 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:

How well  do you hear music? To find out go  to:

http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/OnlineScreen450.swf

Warming  You must pay attention to 36 musical sound comparisons.

I scored  94.4%

Cheers,

Steve  Barbone


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