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Aspects of Musical Cognition in High School Student Education. The Quality of Music Perception depending on Various Types of Musical Training
Aspects of Musical Cognition in High School Student Education. The Quality of Music Perception depending on Various Types of Musical Training

Author(s): Zoltan Makkai
Subject(s): Education, Music
Published by: MediaMusica
Keywords: Musical audition; perception; methodology; aesthetics;

Summary/Abstract: The present research investigates how high school students interpret musical material. The objective of the present research paper is to improve the efficiency of musical auditions, as well as to understand and develop the high school students’ ability to hear music. We have therefore focused on the following experimental contents: the quantitative role of instruments and the qualitative role of timbre in forming the receivers’ aesthetic opinions; the concept of conscious audition; investigation of the effect that musical transformations have on the audiences’ aesthetic decision (by using comparative auditions); recognition of musical character and its interpretation.

  • Issue Year: I/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 66-74
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English