Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristics of sharing meaning through sympathy in "Graphic Score Making" appreciation classes by focusing on figurative representation used by students. In order to do this, first of all, we conducted research into documents concerning the relationship between figurative representation and sympathy and sharing meaning, and obtained a theoretical point of view for practical analysis. Next, by analyzing the relationship between the figurative representation used by students and sympathy in "Graphic Score Making" appreciation classes, we clarified the characteristics of sharing meaning through sympathy. The research results derived the following characteristics of sharing meaning through sympathy in "Graphic Score Making" appreciation classes when focusing on figurative representation. In "Graphic Score Making" appreciation classes, since the "vehicle" of figurative representation used there expresses the quality of the life phenomenon which everyone has experienced, since it is easy to understand although it also becomes bored about the mutual relation between "tenor" and "ground" from "vehicle", sympathy takes place easily, and students can share meaning along with comprehension and actual feeling.
