2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Absolute Pitch and Relative Pitch in Music Students
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24500323
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Niigata University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 絶対音感 / 相対音感 / ソルフェージュ教育 / 国際比較 |
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| 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.
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| Free Research Field |
実験心理学
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