A Study to Determine the Effects of Training and Practice on Drake Musical Aptitude Test Scores

Abstract

The preceeding statement made by a scholar of the calibre of Carl Emil Seashore created a momentus impact on the nature and measurement of musical aptitude. To be sure, it would not be an overstatement to maintain that the impact has not lessened with time. Dichotomous view- points prevailed in 1919 when Seashore's Measures of Musical Talent (59) first appeared as well as the present time with respect to the problem of measuring musical aptitude. Music educators are still not in agreement as to whether musical aptitude can be measured apart from achievement.