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Measurement in music The subject of "musical talent" and how it is measured in today's society is a very debatable one. This entry will discuss how this topic can be measured by both objective and subjective means.
Indian actor, Sunny Deol in an interview with the Hindustan Times says, "Today’s work doesn’t focus on good work and talent. Audience appreciation is what matters” (Hindustan Times). In his book, Performing Rites, Simon Frith has found that talent is determined through the populist culture in which we live and we thus, “have to accept that sales figures, box office returns, and record charts tell us what ‘the people’ want” (Frith 48). However, Frith continues in his book by observing that, “a measurement of popularity through billboard charts, sales and box office returns is not a measurement of value” (Frith 48). According to Diane Richardson of Duke University, children can either be born with an appreciation for music and the ability to demonstrate it, or may develop musical ability through early exposure and structured practice (Wojcik). In either case, researchers at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development have determined that musical talent can be measured by a person’s ability to “identify pitch, precise rhythmic ability, intense interest in a variety of music, and an ability to learn and express music through rote methods” (Wojcik). There are currently hundreds of tests and kits that can determine musical talent such as Bentley’s Measures of Musical Abilities, Kwalwasser’s Kwalwasser Music Talent Test, and Tilson’s The Tilson-Gretsch Musical Aptitude Talent Test. One of the most popular objective methods of measuring musical talent is Carl Seashore’s Seashore Measures of Musical Talent. The test includes sections on pitch, loudness, rhythm, time, timbre and tonal memory (Wolven). To support the view that musical talent is built into DNA and can be calculated, Nobuo Masataka found in his research that two day old infants showed a preference for some music over others (Masataka 1,002). Further research by Kessen, Levine and Peindich has found that at the age of one, children can often match pitch and at one and a half, children engage in spontaneous song (Olson 37). In contrast, Richard Shusterman discusses the fact that musical talent is subjective and cannot be measured by formal methods. The emotions that are evoked in the listener’s ear is what makes the musician talented to that particular person and everyone has different needs and desires when it comes to listening to music. Compare Suicide’s Speed Queen to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. According to Frith, it is nearly impossible to compare genres because they are framed differently based on their time period, and social needs and situations at the time (Frith 63). Shusterman then goes on to ask if based on these standards if it is even possible to “differentiate between high, intellectual aesthetic appreciation from low, sensuous bodily response; or to distinguish between a high engagement with real life and a low escape from it; or to make a clear contrast between high art’s complex structure and low art’s formless simplicity.” (Frith 57) Professor Robert Thornton, at the University of Central Florida, agrees with Shusterman stating that, “Musicians are talented in their genre of music because in each genre, from punk to classical to hip hop, each calls for something different that requires a different form of talent. Therefore, if you were to take someone who plays classical music for a living and put them in a punk band, they would be out of their element and probably not know how to play along with the other punk musicians and vice-versa.” To support the view point that musical talent can be measured through a musician’s or band's cultural importance, various music icons discuss the 1990's grunge band Nirvana and their late front man Kurt Cobain in the documentary Punk Attitude. Cobain rose up in the Seattle scene and became a hero for angst-filled teens because he was the voice of their voiceless generation (Punk Attitude). When Nevermind debuted and was deemed as a hit, it was not because of the immediate feelings and emotions that gave it that driving force but rather its capability for a deeper analysis and further interpretation (Frith 57). When defining talent, it can mean different things to different people. It can be measured through the artist’s importance to culture or by formal testing. According to Frith, “Only when we can accept that someone is hearing what we’re hearing but just doesn’t value it, will we cede to subjective taste and agree that there’s no point to further argument. Popular cultural arguments, in other words, are not about likes and dislikes as such, but about ways of listening, about ways of hearing, about ways of being"(Frith 64). Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. ...
Works Cited
- Frith, Simon. Performing Rites. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Masala, Mirch. "Awards Don’t Measure Talent says Sunny Deol." Hindustan Times. 13
September 2006. 10 Apr 2007 <http://www.hindustantimes.in/news/181_1795255,001100030001.htm>. - Masataka , Nobuo. "Preference for Infant Directed Singing in Two Day Old Hearing
Infants." Developmental Psychology 4(1999): 1001-1005. - Olson and Torrence, David R. and Nancy. Handbook of Education and Human
Development: New Models of Learning, Teaching and Schooling. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1996. - Punk Attitude. Don Letts, 2005.
- Thornton, Prof. Robert. Personal Interview. April 13th, 2007.
- Wojcik, Julie A. . "Musical Talent: Innate or Learned? ." Duke Gifted Letter vol. 3 issue
1.Fall 2002 28 April 2007 <http://www.dukegiftedletter.come/articles/vol3no1_article.html>. - Wolvin and Coakley, Andrew D. and Carolyn G. . Listening Instructors Manual . 5.
Dubuque: Times Mirror Higher Education Group, 1996. |
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