Singing proficiency in the majority: Normality and "phenotypes" of poor singing

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1169, Issue , 2009, Pages 99-107

  Dalla Bella, Simone ^a,b   Berkowska, Magdalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^b Laboratoire international de recherche sur le cerveau la musique et le son Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congenital amusia; Music performance; Musical disorders; Poor singing; Singing proficiency; Tone deafness; Vocal performance

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; PHENOTYPE; PITCH; SINGING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

EID: 68649118863     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04558.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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