Two attitudes are detectable in the research of psychologists interested in the measurement of musical abilities. Some researchers have accepted the dictum originally expressed by Seashore that Inusicality comprises a number of component abilities, each of which is capable of individual measurement.l Investigations based on this viewpoint have taken the form of separation of the spectral characteristics of musical sounds, and comparison of responses of subjects with known properties and dimensions of the various parameters of sound stimuli. This method has been described as atomistic. The view of these investigators has become increasingly less acceptable because various studies have repeatedly revealed that perceptions of the various parameters of musical sounds are interdependent. Fletcher and Munson, for example, found that loudness perception is dependent on the frequency of the stimulus; Liang and Christovich showed that delta frequency functions were influenced by duration of stimulus; and Saldanha and Corso found perception and recognition of timbre to be subject to stimulus frequency.2 Trwin claims that pitch, intensity, and duration are all