Abstract
This paper is the 3rd report of a scries of the experimental studies. It is a purpose of this report to observe and measure a phase of covert mental psychological reacting behaviors of elementary school children in music appreciation and to compare and examine their understanding of a musical meaning or a musical concept resulting from each musical piece. The strategics of this study were as follows. 1) Getting 257 subjects, who arc elementary school children, to appreciate various genres of 7 musical pieces, to rate their feelings caused by the pieces, and to mark them on given rating scales of rating-sheets. 2) Computing the mean value matrix of subjects' ratings, drawing the semantic profiles, and clarifying the differentiations of rating values in each pieces. 3) Computing the total distances in a musical meaning or a musical concept between the pieces in multi-dimentional space by the mean value matrix. 4) Computing a matrix by averaging further the mean value matrix under the factors of rating scales, computing D-matrix by D-mcthod, representing approximately the structure of subjects' musical meaning or musical concept in three-dimentioanl space, and examining it. As the result of this work, the emotional semantic structure of elementary school children in music appreciation could be clarified not only in terms of the intensity but also in terms of the contents of the emotion caused by musical piece. And at the same tiem, an instrument to observe and to measure the covert reacting behaviors resulting from music appreciation could be developed.
