العلاقة بين مستوى القدرات الموسيقية والتحصيل الاكاديمي لدى الطلبة للمتفوقين اكاديميا

The relationship between the level of musical abilities and the academic achievement of students who are academically successful

This study aimed at recognizing the extent of relation between the level of musical abilities and academic achievement among talented students and its relation to some variables. The study sample consisted of (42) male and female ninth grade students chosen randomly in King Abdulla schools for excellence in Al-zarqa governorate. The researchers used seashore test for musical abilities (the brief image), translated into Arabic by sadeq (2001). The study findings showed that the performance of the study sample on musical abilities test was high in the domains of rhymes remembering, time test, and composer remembering. That is because of the existence of primary contents in the programs of musical education which emphasized acquiring musical abilities by excellence schools students. Also, the findings showed that there were statistical differences between the averages of talented students grades on musical abilities tests in the domains of voices discriminating, voice quality, composers remembering and in musical abilities as a whole. Also, the study findings showed that there were no statistical differences between the averages of talented students grades in the domains of testing the six musical abilities, and the test of musical abilities as a whole, in terms of sex variable, and that is because of the nature of the study sample, who have similar levels of intelligence and performance, in addition to the nature of the programs of musical education given to students, which are the same for both sexes.