• ARTICLES, Special Section, The Joint Construction of Personal Meanings in the Arts

Pifano, Tabla Tarang or Sanza: Exploring diverse types of music with the repertory grid.

Ohme, U.

Keywords:
Psychology of music, self and other, constructivism, diversity, music of the world, music lessons at school

Abstract:
Although listening to music and making music are very personal processes which are attractive to most people, little research has been done from the psychological perspective of Personal Construct Psychology (PCP), with hardly any musicologists having developed research using the repertory grid. In order to take a step along this new avenue to be explored, empirical research was undertaken with young students in a primary school in Potsdam, Germany. Using the repertory grid, the investigation showed how the participants construed diverse types of music and furthermore that this way of listening to and exploring music is a suitable tool for music teachers to introduce the topic ‘music of the world’.