The study aims at determining invariant and variative, mediated by mentality, peculiarities of semantic assessment of national and classical musical compositions by listeners of adolescence. The survey included 528 people: Russian and Thai university and school students with no musical acquirements. Using the method of the semantic differential, they evaluated eight musical compositions both Russian and Thai, arranged according to a genre. The data received were handled with the help of the factor analysis and the Mann–Whitney U Test. It has been found that aesthetic features of music determine the way an audience perceives it irrespective of nationality; mental mediation is correlated with the general mode of emotional evaluation and cognitive complexity of musical composition adaptation; perception of classical music by individuals from different cultures is more unified than that of folk music.
I. M. Kyshtymova (Wed,) studied this question.
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