An exploratory study was conducted investigating the concept of beauty related to music listening—“musical beauty.” The study implemented an online qualitative questionnaire aimed to evaluate how listeners construe the concept of beauty, the pieces of music considered to be beautiful, and the intrinsic and/or extrinsic features that listeners attribute to musical pieces being considered as “most beautiful.” Analysis of long-answer responses provided by English-speaking participants ( n = 32) reveals the way that listeners characterize “musical beauty” and contributes to empirical evaluation of musical aesthetic experiences. Listeners in this study construe beauty in two ways: one construal emphasizes the perceivable or recognizable intrinsic features of the piece of music, while the other emphasizes the affective or emotional extrinsic features of their listening experience.

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理解音乐美


一项探索性研究调查了与音乐聆听相关的美的概念——“音乐美”。该研究实施了一项在线定性调查问卷，旨在评估听众如何理解美的概念、被认为是美丽的音乐作品，以及听众赋予被认为是“最美丽”的音乐作品的内在和/或外在特征。对英语参与者（n = 32）提供的长答案的分析揭示了听众描述“音乐美”的方式，并有助于对音乐审美体验的实证评估。这项研究中的听众以两种方式解释美：一种解释强调音乐作品可感知或可识别的内在特征，而另一种解释则强调他们聆听体验的情感或情感外在特征。