Trumpet tone quality versus intonation revisited: Two extensions

Abstract

The purpose of the two studies reported here was to replicate and extend Madsen and Geringer 's 1976 investigation of preferences for trumpet tone quality versus intonation. Both extensions had 120 listeners: 60 high school music students and 60 college music majors. In the first replication study, intonation of the piano accompaniment was varied (flat 25 cents, in-tune, sharp 25 cents, or sharp 50 cents) in relationship to the melody performed on trumpet with either good or bad tone quality. The second study varied the intonation of the trumpet in relationship to accompaniment. Results of the first study showed that listeners gave highest ratings to the intune accompaniment, followed by the sharp 25 cents, and the flat 25 cents. The sharp 50 cents accompaniment was rated lowest. In the second extension, highest ratings were given to sharp 15 cents and in-tune trumpet performances. Listeners in both extensions, and unlike the original study, rated good quality examples consistently higher than the bad quality examples.

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