Trends in the Aesthetic Responses of Children to the Musical Experience

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify and define possible age-related characteristics of children's aesthetic responsiveness to music they performed on the violin; to investigate the relationship between any identifiable characteristics with an area of musical conceptualization (conservation of rhythm); and to determine the relationship between musical training and aesthetic responsiveness. Forty-six violinists between the ages of 3 and 16½ were presented an author-designated Aesthetic Responsiveness Task designed to elicit verbal responses on aesthetic judgments and experiences in the areas of preferential judgment, qualitative judgment, emotional experience, and empathy. The high level of agreement found between the judges' scoring of the Aesthetic Responsiveness Task tended to support protocols established for the study. Results seemed to indicate that age was the primary factor in the development of aesthetic judgments and experiences over both training and rhythmic conservation.

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