AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Musical intelligence is the ability to perceive, distinguish, transform, and express sounds and musical forms. It allows people to create, communicate and understand meaning through sound. This intelligence includes sensitivity to the rhythms, melodies, and tones of a piece of music.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence (see Graphic 12e) includes such capacities as the recognition and use of rhythmic and tonal patterns, as well as sensitivity to sounds from the environment, the human voice, and musical instruments.

Detailed explanation-3: -Musical intelligence, also called musical-rhythmic intelligence, is the ability to comprehend and produce musical skills such as rhythm, lyrics, and patterns.

Detailed explanation-4: -People with musical intelligence are able to hear and recognize patterns easily. They are very sensitive to rhythm and sound. For example, they can easily distinguish the sound of a clarinet from the sound of a flute.

Detailed explanation-5: -In order to capture the full range of abilities and talents that people possess, Gardner theorizes that people do not have just an intellectual capacity, but have many kinds of intelligence, including musical, interpersonal, spatial-visual, and linguistic intelligences.