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Question: What Was Your Score?
26-30 - 32 (68.1%)
21-25 - 14 (29.8%)
16-20 - 1 (2.1%)
11-15 - 0 (0%)
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Author Topic: "Can You Sing Happy Birthday In Tune?"  (Read 1282 times)
Ruro
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« on: March 14, 2006, 07:50:18 PM »
This was just posted on another forum i visit, the forum itself completely unrelated to Music infact, but this sprung up and thought I would share ^_^ I'm basicaly gonna quote from the thread, because I can't be bothered to spend time writing this, but I'm sure others here will find it interesting!

Can you sing Happy Birthday in tune? You might think so, but your nearest and dearest might beg to differ. At the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dr Lauren Stewart is running an on-line experiment to study tone-deafness.

Several percent of the population are deaf to large changes in pitch. They can't sing in tune, but are completely oblivious to their duff notes. These sufferers have what is known as amusia - to them, one tune sounds pretty similar to the next and listening to music becomes a pointless, even unpleasant chore.

To find out your musical listening scores, go to: http://www.delosis.com/listening/

Apologies if a similar thread is already floating about, but I have looked around!
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« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2006, 05:27:00 AM »
Bummer! I only got 23 out of 30. I found that the examples in minor were easier to identify as either same or different, and that linear melodies were easier to identify rather than hops, skips, and jumps for melodies.
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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2006, 09:15:18 AM »
30/30

Remember, I am synaesthetic.

I can still hum the tunes to you after 3 hours

or backwards

fun
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« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2006, 09:18:23 AM »
Quote from: invictus on March 15, 2006, 09:15:18 AM
30/30

Remember, I am synaesthetic.

I can still hum the tunes to you after 3 hours

or backwards

fun

Synaesthetic? Please explain...
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« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2006, 10:50:08 AM »
Quote from: henrah on March 15, 2006, 09:18:23 AM
Synaesthetic? Please explain...

Mixing the senses.  Commonly in music as seeing colours for a particular pitch. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
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« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2006, 01:15:54 PM »
For christ sake... Can they make it any easier?Huh? Every single music test these people throw at us... I always get top marks....

It's getting boring as hell. Is there a challenge out there???
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« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2006, 05:09:05 PM »
Quote from: perfect_pitch on March 15, 2006, 01:15:54 PM
For christ sake... Can they make it any easier?Huh? Every single music test these people throw at us... I always get top marks....

It's getting boring as hell. Is there a challenge out there???

At least you're not pretentious about it.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2006, 10:02:35 PM »
ok i can't be bothered doing this because i have better things to do, but that's exactly what we had to do for the unsw music audition, and it was generaly ok unless i tuned out and forgot what the first melody was

but speaking of happy birthday, putting that one high note in the middle was a really dumb idea because it's always ridiculously flat, and everyone sings in different keys anyway, i find it hilarious and can't ever sing the song without laughing my head of at the lack of singing talent in the room
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« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2006, 11:14:01 PM »
no good...

got 26/30  Embarrassed
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« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2006, 04:03:08 AM »

Interesting test, but not that hard if you're a musician.

I am a liitle suspicious though that once your score is given, the site asks you if you want to participate in future studies and then asks you to provide your full name and date of birth.

I wouldn't recommend providing those details to anyone you don't know, or you can't verify that the request is legitimate.

Beware!


Cheers

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« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2006, 04:34:38 AM »
Boy, I'm feeling lonely. Only one other person scored similarly to me.  Cry

And no, I didn't give them any personal information. Something smelled fishy.
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« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2006, 05:17:44 AM »
Doh!  I did!  Great, and I can't take it back either.  What do I do?  Get ready for alot of spam, or change my name and move to another country?
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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2006, 09:10:30 AM »
I would... Hey Lagin - if your interested.. Australia has plenty of room...

HEE HEE!!! I wouldn't worry too much about it...
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« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2006, 02:24:41 PM »
I dunno... Melbourne is pretty crowded with the Games going on (YAy!)  =)

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« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2006, 08:59:27 PM »
I'm surprised at how many I got wrong... I only got 21. Then again, having my brother playing rock music in the background probably didn't help. Roll Eyes
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« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2006, 09:19:22 PM »
invictus, how far have you memorized pi? In the wiki thing about synaesthesia, there was a link about pi, and some Japanese person memorized it to over 80,000 digits!
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« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2006, 09:27:29 PM »
Not normaly, but I will see if squeezing my nuts in a vice helps Wink
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« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2006, 06:15:10 PM »
Yay, 30/30. Grin

Although, it would have been more challenging if they'd altered the melody rather than just sticking a jarring dissonance into the second one that's near impossible to miss...

Oh, well. It allowed me a few minutes of procrastination.

Jas
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« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2006, 04:31:03 AM »
22/30 for me! I think the fact that the tunes were not recognizable in anyway made it hard.
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« Reply #19 on: March 22, 2006, 07:20:14 PM »
24... during the test I thought the score would be higher
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« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2006, 06:39:14 PM »
i got 30/30.
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« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2006, 07:15:31 PM »
I had my friend take it. He is always bragging about his musical ear and how superior he is to everyone. It was awesome he scored a 21. LOL!!! I didn't take it. I know that I suck.
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« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2006, 07:35:11 PM »
Holy Cow!!! I actually got a 26. LOL!!! I guess I did better because I wasn't really trying. I just let the music set in.
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« Reply #23 on: March 23, 2006, 07:45:08 PM »
25... real music rather than midi would have made it easier i think... dont ask me why...
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« Reply #24 on: March 23, 2006, 08:35:08 PM »
24.  Actually better than I thought - when picking out melodies by ear I often substitute something close and harmonic for the right one.  But I wonder which ones I got wrong so I could hear them again.
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« Reply #25 on: March 24, 2006, 04:53:07 PM »
26/30.

not bad for a hopelessly untrained ear. Tongue
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« Reply #26 on: March 24, 2006, 06:05:36 PM »
26..
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« Reply #27 on: March 24, 2006, 06:20:15 PM »
i guess anyone with good short term memory, and of course, who can sing in tune, would think it's easy... it would be harder if the tunes were longer and the ones that are different aren't out of harmony...
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« Reply #28 on: March 30, 2006, 05:53:58 AM »
Quote from: jas on March 17, 2006, 06:15:10 PM
Although, it would have been more challenging if they'd altered the melody rather than just sticking a jarring dissonance into the second one that's near impossible to miss...

Exactly!

If they changed a note of the melody to another note of the appropriate chord rather than to some random, dissonant pitch, it would actually be a challenge, and I probably wouldn't have scored a 30/30.

Or how about some rhythmic alterations?
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« Reply #29 on: April 01, 2006, 08:29:13 AM »
29/30

I agree... the ones that were "different" usually had a non-diatonic note in there that stuck out like a sore thumb.

some of my classmates can hear "wrong" notes in certain kinds of 12-tone pieces without having heard them before.
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« Reply #30 on: April 01, 2006, 11:57:52 AM »
30/30

Yeah, most of em were easy because of the ugly tritone that was stuck in there.  Of course, having perfect pitch helped with the others...  Tongue Grin Wink
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« Reply #31 on: April 02, 2006, 10:16:06 AM »
27. My only problem was forgetting the first tune...
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« Reply #32 on: April 02, 2006, 10:19:38 AM »
28... while my problem was my mind wandering off, only to come back and forget the tune itself.  =)  That did NOt make sense; ah well...
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« Reply #33 on: April 04, 2006, 09:24:36 PM »
30/30... it reminds me of those little keyboard toys you buy for 1year olds to learn to recognise melodies.

I need a challenge. That was kind of stupid as the difference was dissonant and almost impossible to miss, even for an untrained ear.
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