New questionnaire measures children's musicality
A team from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) has developed a questionnaire that can be used to assess the musicality of three to ten-year-olds.
Universal patterns such as the acquisition of basic rhythm and pitch recognition play an important role in musical development in childhood. However, there are also very individual patterns that are based on environmental, educational and innate factors. In order to document these precisely and thus close a gap in research, the research team at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) has developed the "Child Musicality Screening" as part of a total of three studies.
This method can be used, for example, to recognize developmental trajectories, identify musically gifted children at an earlier stage and specifically promote musical education. The questionnaire was recently published with the study results in the journal PLOS One, where it is available as a free download.
Original publication: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0317962
