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Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Absolute Pitch and Relative Pitch in Music Students

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24500323
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Cognitive science
Research InstitutionNiigata University

Principal Investigator

Miyazaki Kenichi  新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (90133579)

Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,230,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Keywords絶対音感 / 相対音感 / ソルフェージュ教育 / 国際比較 / 音楽経験 / 中国 / アメリカ合衆国 / ポーランド / フィンランド / 中国:ドイツ:ポーランド / フィンランド:アメリカ合衆国
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted absolute pitch (AP) and relative pitch (RP) tests on music students in Japan, China, Poland, Germany, and USA. In the AP test, 60 piano tones over a 5-octave range were presented in a nearly random order. In the RP test, a two-chord authentic cadence and a pair of successive tones were presented in 4 different keys. In the AP test, the participants answered AP names, and in the RP test, they wrote down musical interval names or sol-fa names of the last tone relative to the penultimate tone as the tonic. The Japanese participants achieved the highest scores in the AP test, but the lowest in the RP test. In striking contrast, the Western participants showed excellent scores in the RP test, whereas few of them had accurate AP. The poor RP scores of the Japanese participants suggest possible disadvantageous influences of AP on RP learning. It could be speculated that those who had acquired AP in early childhood lose an opportunity to fully develop RP.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Other

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 2 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 絶対音感を巡る誤解2013

    • Author(s)
      宮崎謙一
    • Journal Title

      日本音響学会誌

      Volume: 69 Pages: 562-569

    • NAID

      40019822814

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Prevalence of absolute pitch: A comparison between Japanese and Polish music students.2012

    • Author(s)
      Miyazaki, K., Makomaska, S., Rakowski, A.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

      Volume: 135 (5) Issue: 5 Pages: 3484-3493

    • DOI

      10.1121/1.4756956

    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Absolute pitch and relative pitch in music students: A comparison between East and West2016

    • Author(s)
      Kenichi Miyazaki, Andrzej Rakowski, Sylwia Makomaska, Cong Jiang, Minoru Tsuzaki, Andrew J. Oxenham, Greg Ellis, Scott D. Lipscomb
    • Organizer
      International Congress of Psychology
    • Place of Presentation
      パシフィコ横浜 (神奈川県横浜市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-24
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 音楽活動に絶対音感は必要か ― 絶対音感獲得による相対音感阻害の問題2015

    • Author(s)
      森下修次,宮崎謙一
    • Organizer
      日本音楽教育学会
    • Place of Presentation
      シーガイア・コンベンションセンター (宮崎市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Absolute Pitch and Relative Pitch in Music Students in Different Countries2015

    • Author(s)
      Kenichi Miyazaki, Cong Jiang, Sylwia Makomaska, Andrzej Rakowski
    • Organizer
      Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
    • Place of Presentation
      Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-17
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 絶対音感研究の現在

    • Author(s)
      宮崎謙一
    • Organizer
      東北心理学会第66回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      新潟大学
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] 絶対音感神話: 科学で解き明かすほんとうの姿2014

    • Author(s)
      宮崎謙一
    • Total Pages
      246
    • Publisher
      化学同人
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 絶対音感の神話2014

    • Author(s)
      宮崎謙一
    • Total Pages
      250
    • Publisher
      化学同人
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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