...This chapter identifies patterns in the development of musical preferences, and tries to explain why they occur. Following some definitions of the various terms concerning musical preferences, and a brief description of their grounding in our own reciprocal-feedback model of musical preference...

...Everyone's musical preference is vastly subjective. Some people like certain piece of music due to the emotion that the music brings to their mind, the memories and thoughts they have associated with it, their degree of sophistication, or they ‘simply like it’. This chapter describes some...

... Wisdom Alexandra Lamont discusses how musical preferences are a way to construct, reconstruct, and communicate a sense of identity, indicating aspects of personality, attitudes, and lifestyle. She reviews recent research demonstrating how musical preferences can provide information about age, gender...

... peers with different listening preferences. At this turning point, children develop new skills and aptitudes as listeners, performers, and composers, and are actively incorporating musical preferences and behaviors into their personal and collective identities, e.g., “being an instrumental musician...

... listeners aesthetic judgment aesthetic criteria aesthetic response musical preference emotion music The business of music should in some measure lead to the love of the beautiful. Plato, The Republic You have probably heard the phrase a billion times: there is no accounting...

... (SIT). development music musical preferences preference s taste groups social and social identity ingroups musical response reciprocal feedback model outgroups SIT social identity theory social identity and social groups Tajfel H Turner J C aesthetics experimental aesthetics listening...

..., but once we adopt an aesthetic attitude and assess it in terms of its aesthetic merits, our liking for it may wane. Perhaps this can account for the changes in music preferences that may occur as a result of music education. Although I believe that aesthetic judgments are often made...