Trends in the Aesthetic Responses of Children to the Musical Experience

Bibliographic Data

ID10200313
AuthorsDavid J Nelson (0000-0002-9461-5182, University of Wisconsin, Madision, corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume33
Issue3
Pages193-203
Publication date1985-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Research in Music Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4294 • E-ISSN: 1945-0095
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/3344806
OpenAlexW1982804375
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

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 161⁄2 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

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Conceptualization · Developmental psychology · Empathy · Linguistics · Musical · Rhythm · Task (project management · Violin · Visual arts · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Diverse Music Education Insights · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology · Social Psychology

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