An Approach to the Measurement of Music Appreciation (II)

Abstract

rHIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES an experiment to measure that experience that is commonly called appreciation.' Most experimental studies involving music have been concerned either with the measurement of the aural abilities needed to solve problems connected with musical sounds2 or with the various reactions and moods evoked by short musical extracts.3 It is the author's belief, however, that the enjoyment of music is a mental act relatively independent of the former, and more comprehensive and unitary than the latter. Since evidence supporting the first of these claims presupposes the demonstration of the second, it must await a second article. The aim of this article is to examine this second claim concerning the essentially unitary nature of musical experience by presenting and attempting to validate a test for the measurment of music appreciation.

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