Abstract
This research examined the relationships between children's musical ability and the physical and social environments of the home and school as well as the child characteristics of creativity and cognition. Teacher and parent ratings were included as measures of children's musical ability observed in the natural home and school settings, as comparisons to the standardized Primary Measures of Music Audiation (PMMA) measurement ( Gordon, 1979). Sixty children between the ages of 4 and 6 and their parents participated in the study. The findings of this study include significant positive relationships of children's musical aptitude with fathers' attitude and encouragement, and the child characteristics of cognitive and creative abilities. Significant correlations of the PMMA were found with several physical environment variables. Regression analysis demonstrated that cognitive ability was the only significant predictor of musical aptitude. However, when parent and teacher ratings were used as measures of children's musical ability, the social home environment was the significant predictor variable in the regression models.
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