Abstract
PPRECIATION OF FINE MUSIC is a recognized objective in the music curriculum, and most music programs stress its importance. Yet how many schools, which offer organized courses or informal training in music appreciation, approach it systematically? How many music teachers approach music appreciation haphazardly with no real objectives? A systematic approach to music appreciation produces systematic results. A haphazard approach inevitably produces haphazard results. Anomalies are purely accidental. A methodical, scientific approach to teaching music appreciation is suggested which is based on the psychoacoustic hearing process. The components of psychoacoustics are not new. Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Cassiodorus, Zarlino, Mersenne, Helmholtz are among many who have treated various aspects of psychoacoustics in historical treatises. However, the integration of several scientific disciplines and their application to music appreciation has been applied infrequently, and is one which warrants serious consideration.
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