Table 6.

Spearman correlations between music appraisal and music perception ability. Correlations which are not significant at the 5% level are not shown. P values are shown in parentheses. Correlations which were significant after Rom (1990) corrections for possible Type 1 family-wise errors are shown in bold. The categories for appraisal have low values for the descriptor on the top and high values for the descriptor on the bottom. For example “Not Like Music” vs. “Like Music” has a scale in which the top phrase “Not Like” gets a low number and the “Like” gets a high number.

	Clear Fuzzy	Complex Simple	Easy to follow Hard to follow	Like very much Dislike	Not like music Like music	Unnatural Natural	Unpleasant Pleasant
Pitch	–	–	0.20 (0.05)	–	−0.32 (0.001)	–	−0.25 (0.01)
Timbre	–	–	−0.25 (0.01)	−0.21 (0.04)	0.23 (0.01)	0.35 (0.0005)	0.24 (0.02)
Melody	–	–	–	–	0.22 (0.03)	–	–