Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between ratings of the emotional characters of musics and the emotions aroused by them. A total of 183 students in music major was asked to listen each of one minute excerpts from two orchestral musics twice, and to rate the emotional characters of them or the emotions aroused by them on 64 five point adjective scales each time. The results showed that it was hardly possible to discriminate between what characters those musics had and what emotions they aroused. That is, the rated characters did not differ significantly from the rated emotions either on the adjective scales or on the scores of four factors, which were identified by factor analyses and interpreted as “agreeable relaxation”, “gayness”, “depression” and “tension-potency” Factors.
