When:
Thursday, October 26, 2023
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
Where: Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, Regenstein Masterclass Room, 70 Arts Circle, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Meredith Hawley
Group: Cognitive Science Program
Category: Academic
Musicality is a crucial concept for music learning, music teaching, and empirical music research. But how musicality is defined and how it should be assessed is contentious, assumed to be fully understood by some researchers and hotly debated by others. This talk will highlight three different approaches for identifying musical abilities and will introduce the Cognitive Psychometrics of Music as a new framework for musical test construction. Different approaches for modelling the relationships between different musical abilities may give rise to differing notions of musicality.