Seashore Measures of Musical Talent
a series of recorded subtests of the components of musical aptitude, including tonal memory, time awareness, rhythm awareness, pitch discrimination, timbre awareness, and loudness discrimination. In these six subtests, various pairs of tones, tonal sequences, or rhythmic patterns are presented and the participant must distinguish each along the particular dimension of interest. For example, in the time awareness subtest, the participant must indicate for each of 50 tone pairs whether the second tone is longer or shorter than the first. Also called Seashore Measures of Musical Ability. [originally developed in 1919 and subsequently revised in 1939 by Carl Emil Seashore]