What is Your Musical IQ?

I take a musical IQ test designed by a cognitive research team at Harvard! An IQ test that, perhaps not surprisingly, is quite Eurocentric in its conception of musical intelligence. Take the Musical IQ test yourself! Cross-Cultural Studies of Musical Pitch Perception/ Curr. Biol., Sept. 19, 2019...

17 min - Music - Adam Neely

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