Objective: To establish music reference values for normal-hearing (NH) person in China, in order to give convenience in clinical application.
Method: The NH participant group included 39 subjects, of which 21 females and 18 males. Musical Sounds in Cochlear Implants test battery was used to assess the music perception ability for normal-hearing participants.
Result: The median pitch difference NH participants could discriminate for string was 2.5 semitones and 0.5 for flute. The average scores of rhythm discrimination, melody discrimination, chord discrimination, instrument identification and instrument number detection test were 86.1% (SD = 11.2), 76.5% (SD = 11.1), 75.6% (SD = 11.4), 89.9% (SD = 13.0) and 74.1% (SD = 20.7), respectively.
Conclusion: The MuSIC test could be a test for music perception ability for China users and in further study the material that more suited for our culture should be added into it.