NATURE VERSUS NURTURE: A REVISITED EXPLANATORY SYNTHESIS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL ABILITIES

Author Name: Almighty C. Tabuena

Volume: 01 &  Issue:

Country: Philippines

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2020-45647352/

Affiliation:

1. Graduate Student, Philippine Normal University, Manila, Philippines

ABSTRACT

This article iterates and synthesizes findings from literature reviews that intended to describe and present the development of musical abilities. In this matter, the ability of music could be both influenced by society and/or by blood, in terms of genes; both science and experience contribute to this development. This study employed a descriptive method to gather information about present existing conditions through a library method and literature review. The data were analyzed using explanatory synthesis. Based on the literature review, the researcher identified two comparative views on the development of musical abilities: nature and nurture. The researcher used four criteria in synthesizing reviews such as cognitive development, intelligence, the relationship between nature and nurture, and musicality is nature, musical ability is nurtured. In conclusion, when it comes to musical ability, nature works in tandem with nurture; musical talent takes nature and nurture. The result of the perception in the origins and appearance of both the intelligence and action dwells in the discernment of how hereditary and social factors are involved in the active and interactional processes that specify and direct its development. The source and power of music could be some determined by association and/or by ancestry, in terms of genes; both scientific discipline and natural event impart to the development of musical abilities.

Key words: Development, Explanatory Synthesis, Musical Abilities, Nature, Nurture