Abstract
The purpose of this study is to construct new proper scales based on experimental data in order that the semantic differential by C. E. Osgood and others may be applied to the observation and measurement of the covert reacting behaviors resulting from music appreciation. The strategies of this study are as follows. 1) Getting the subjects to appreciate various genres of musical pieces and to verbalize their feelings, moved by the musical pieces. 2) Checking statistically the semantic generality and independency of the words sampled from the verbalization of their feelings. 3) Forming pairs of polar semantic words by selecting antonyms to the sampled words that represent the feeling in each experience of music appreciation. As the result of above-mentioned work, 47 pairs of polar semantic words were found for a scale of the semantic differential for observing and measuring the covert reacting behaviors in music appreciation of elementary school children.
