Understanding Aesthetic Principles in Music and its Effect to Contemporary Music Composition: An Educational Psychology Perspective

Abstract

The study aims to understand the aesthetics on music and its effect to contemporary music composition.This study will be structured on a descriptive correlational research design, where numeric score rating will be assigned to gather the perception of a specific respondent to observe a structured pattern. Quantitative research allows for objectivity, fast data collection and analysis of the data in statistical form that can provide a thorough overview of the study (Health Research Funding, 2018). Aside from the descriptive quantitative design, correlation will also be used to further understand how variables affect each other which are; Psychology of music aesthetics as the independent variable while contemporary music composition. Hence, according to I-Chant A. Chiang, Rajiv S. Jhangiani, and Paul C. Price, (2013), correlation research is a non-experimental research design in which two variables are measured and assessed on the aspect of their statistical relationship in strength and range. The study will focus on Academy of Chinese Traditional Opera, and Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China as the two study sites. The third year level students enrolled in music program are the respondents that have prior knowledge on Psychology of music aesthetics, and applies contemporary music composition as part of program requirements. Many respondents disagreed that the sound of contemporary music is a bop, and contemporary music’s genre is not one of their choices. Most respondents disagreed that they often listen to contemporary music and shared that contemporary music does not have a good range of type of songs.