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When Should Children

Start Musical Training?

By Daniel Baer
[email protected]
Research Question:

Is the correlation between


the age at which a child
begins musical and pitch
ability strong enough to
justify beginning musical
training at an early age?
Background Information

● Pitch ability is one of the core skills used by musicians.

● This includes being able to tell the difference between pitches and being able to
accurately replicate pitch.

● Perfect pitch, also known as absolute pitch, is the ability to recognize or replicate a pitch
in music with incredible accuracy.
Stances

● Some of the academic community believes that there is evidence to support the
development of abilities like absolute pitch having a strong genetic factor.

● Others believe that musical training at an early age is an important determinant in the
possibility of developing higher-level pitch abilities.
Questions for the Audience

1. Do you feel that there are merits to beginning musical training at an early age in order to
try to ensure the development of absolute pitch?
2. What can ethically be done to research the certainty of the development of absolute pitch
through early music education?
3. Do you feel that working towards long-term goals such as advanced pitch abilities is
appropriate for parents of pre-adolescents?
Works Cited

● Gregersen, Peter K, et al. “Early childhood music education and predisposition to absolute pitch: Teasing apart genes and environment.”
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● Henthorn, Trevor, and Diana Deutsch. “Ethnicity versus early environment: Comment on ‘Early Childhood Music Education and Predisposition
to Absolute Pitch: Teasing Apart Genes and Environment’ by Peter K. Gregersen, Elena Kowalsky, Nina Kohn, and Elizabeth West Marvin
[2000].” American Journal of Medical Genetics, vol. 143A, no. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 102–103. Wiley Online Library,
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.31596.

● Honda, Chihiro, et al. “The effect of musical training and language background on vocal imitation of pitch in speech and song.” Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 49, no. 10, 2023, pp. 1296–1309. EBSCOhost,
https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001146.

● Pfordresher, Peter Q, and Steven N Demorest. “The Prevalence and Correlates of Accurate Singing.” Journal of Research in Music Education,
vol. 69, no. 1, Apr. 2021, pp. 5–23. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022429420951630.

● Reynolds, Benjamin S., and Linda J. Hayes. “Direct instruction of absolute pitch using the theremin as a musical instrument and experimental
apparatus.” Behavior Analysis in Practice, vol. 15, no. 3, 2021, pp. 715–729. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-021-00621-4.

● Ross, David A, and Lawrence E Marks. “Absolute Pitch in Children prior to the Beginning of Musical Training.” Annals of the New York Academy
of Sciences, vol. 1169, July 2009, pp. 199–204. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04847.x.

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