Abstract
This experimental study, taking a step ahead of the previous experimental study by the author, has the purpose to construct new proper scales and a practically utilizable questionnaire on the basis of semantic differential for music appreciation. The strategies of this study are as follows. 1) Getting 257 subjects, who are elementary school children, to appreciate 3 tunes of various genres of musical pieces, and to mark their feelings caused by these tunes on 47 rating scales found in the previous experiment. 2) Analyzing respectively the experimental data, after working out (1) raw data matrixes, (2) mean values and standard deviations, (3) coefficients of correlation, (4) factor loadings, and others. 3) Sampling the factors of the covert rerating behavior in music appreciation, by factor analyzing tune after tune, then finding the common factors to every tune by factor rotating. 4) Providing the way to select typical rating scales with a consideration of the common factors, and to construct a condensed questionnaire in the semantic differential for music appreciation. As the result of this work, in order that covert reacting behaviors of music learners in music appreciation may be observed and measured somehow objectively in terms of their overt behaviors, a proposition has been set up how a set of rating scales for a proper semantic differential should be constructed.
