Further Ado About Negro Music Ability

In an earlier paper I reported the Seashore Test of Musical Talents (STMT) scores of 200 inner-city sixth grade Negro pupils.' Miller's further analysis of the overall data clarify somewhat the more precise nature of the significant deficiency observed in the Black youngsters.2 Table I presents the average percentile scores on the six STMT sub-scales of 11-, 12-, and 13year-old Black sixth graders. Table I clearly shows the deficiency exhibited by these inner-city children in tested musical ability by contrasting their performance to the published norms for the STMT.3 However, Table I suggests a somewhat general decline as

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