2013 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 361-367
The sensibility evaluation through the quantitative analysis has not yet provided an enough data concerning an appeal of essential charm and a concrete design. Therefore, we have used a method which covers both qualitative and quantitative analysis to develop a “bodily sensation music listening method.” At first, we have collected live impression words from our subjects who are listening to bodily sensation music, and then we have deciphered the meanings and structures of those words and classified them by using KJ method. Thus, we have made clearer the strength and weakness peculiar to this listening method. Next, we have carried out factor analysis for the live impression words by using SD method. Thus, we have extracted the impression structures peculiar to the bodily sensation music listening method more in detail, such as sound image factor, bodily sensation factor and the feeling of the subject by combining qualitative analysis with quantitative one. Finally, we have discussed the reason why such feelings of the subject was provided based on the results obtained by our method using both quantitative and qualitative analysis.
