"musical aptitude" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You may use this phrase when referring to a person's natural or acquired ability to learn and understand music. For example: "From a young age, he showed a remarkable musical aptitude that has allowed him to become one of the greatest musicians of the century."
Music perception and musical aptitude are cognitive functions of the human brain.
We hypothesized that practicing music is social communication that needs musical aptitude and even creativity in music.
In accordance with this objective, this paper is an attempt to determine the reliability of the Musical Aptitude Test carried out by Music Education Department of Uludag University in 2013.
Here we analyzed whether the polymorphisms in the aforementioned five genes are associated with musical aptitude and creative functions in music in the Finnish multigenerational families with professional musicians and/or active amateurs.
The cons of our study may be that data about the creativity in music is based on self-report and individuals with creativity in music are quite rare, while the pros are that our pedigrees contain more individuals with musical aptitude and further creativity in music, than average pedigrees.
The musical aptitude was assessed using three music tests: the auditory structuring ability test (Karma Music test, KMT) designed by one of the authors [41] and Carl Seashore's pitch and time discrimination subtests (SP and ST respectively) [42] as described in detail by Pulli et al. [40].
Similar considerations apply to vocal and instrumental musical aptitudes wherein unique combinations of such anatomical structures as lips, teeth, larynx, tongue, eyes, ears, hands, and arms can facilitate the attainment of virtuoso skill.
It remains undetermined whether reading abilities are impacted alongside music aptitude with musical training during childhood or whether the neural mechanism reported here is affected by musical training.
Gordon makes this claim in light of his extensive longitudinal work showing that music aptitude can improve with musical training, particularly during early childhood [ 92].
Our results demonstrate a similar relationship between auditory working memory and attention and music aptitude in children, although this relationship is observed regardless of musical training backgrounds.
It is not surprising that we observed correlations between music aptitude and subcortical spectral enhancement of predictable speech sounds given that musical expertise increases one's sensitivity to sound patterns not only in music, but also in speech [ 34, 69].
