ZENEI MŰFAJOKRÓL ALKOTOTT TANULÓI VÉLEMÉNYEK.

In this study, we discuss the concepts of musical preference and musical style, the difficulties of categorising musical genres. In order to accomplish that, the opinions of students (N = 1159), aged 7–19 years, about each genre on specific musical examples are investigated. Our instrument was a self-developed online questionnaire, in which we inserted four musical excerpts. The types of music videos were street music, rock music, classical music, and folk music. We asked background questions related to the music excerpts, which focused on participation in instrument demonstrations and watching music shows. Results are interpreted in terms of students’ age, gender, comparisons between instrumental and non-instrumental students, and family background. There are significant differences in perceptions of genres by gender, age groups, instrumental and non-instrumental students. The comparison between gender shows that girls have more positive attitudes related to each music excerpt. 15-16 yearold students provided the lowest ratings for all four musical excerpts. Across the seven groups of instrumental and non-instrumental students, it is clear that students who are neither instrumental students nor do they want to be instrumental students gave significantly lower feedback regarding whether they like the given musical excerpts. Our results can provide feedback for school music education, which are based on the core curriculum of folk and classical music. The reason for that is that students, regardless of age group and gender, significantly prefer popular genres (street music, rock music) to classical music or folk music. There is no difference between the perception of the latter two. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]