Effects of Musical Training on Key and Harmony Perception Journal Articles

abstract

• Even adults with no formal music lessons have implicit musical knowledge acquired through exposure to the music of their culture. Two of these abilities are knowledge of key membership (which notes belong in a key) and harmony (chord progressions). Studies to date suggest that perception of harmony emerges around 5–6 years of age. Using simple tasks, we found that formal music training influences key and harmony perception in 3‐ to 6‐year‐olds, and that even nonmusicians as young as 3 years have some knowledge of key membership and harmony.

authors

• Corrigall, Kathleen A
• Trainor, Laurel

status

• published 

publication date

• July 2009

has subject area

• Adult (MeSH)
• Auditory Perception (MeSH)
• Child (MeSH)
• Child, Preschool (MeSH)
• Cognition (MeSH)
• General Science & Technology (Science Metrix)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Learning (MeSH)
• Music (MeSH)

published in

• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Auditory Perception
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Cognition
• Humans
• Learning
• Music

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04769.x

PubMed ID

• 19673773

start page

• 164

end page

• 168

volume

• 1169

issue

• 1