Harmonised Distorted Tunes Test

Date:
c.1949
Reference:
PENROSE/1/6/1
Part of:
L. S. Penrose Papers
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Manuscript and music of a "harmonised distorted tunes test" devised by L S Penrose. Subjects were asked to listen to some well-known tunes played with a harmony that was designed to be confusing, and state whether the melody was played correctly. Penrose was interested to know whether tone-deafness could be inherited genetically in the same way as colour-blindness.

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c.1949

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2 items

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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