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Most music tests and measures have been developed to assess aptitude, achievement, or performance. Aptitude tests such as the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents and the (Gordon) Musical Aptitude Profile; achievement tests such as the Beach Music Test and the Graduate Record Examinations Advanced Tests: Music; and performance tests such as the Watkins-Farnum Performance Scale have been used widely and reviewed extensively in professional journals. Two recent publications provide excellent coverage of these three types of music tests.1 Another type of test has been developed to assess a variety of attributes-mood, taste, interest, opinion, preference, attitude, judgment, perception, and appreciation-that collectively constitute one's musico-aesthetic attitude. Although musico-aesthetic attitude tests are numerous, they have not been reviewed nearly so extensively as the aforementioned types of tests. Hevner and Gernet have reviewed many early music appreciation tests, and Farnsworth and Erneston have evaluated several measures of musical taste.2 Few of the tests
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