Music is a special type of communication, it conveys a message. The ability to understand the message is connected with knowledge of musical language of the piece. It is presumed that the ability to receive music depends mainly on active practising of music. The establishment of principles in reception of music and description of receptive abilities of contemporary secondary school students were the main aims of music education research performed in 2006. In the research the methods of auscultatory questionnaire and semantic differential were combined. The results of the research confirmed the hypothesis that young people with music activities perceive music with better understanding than people with no music activities.
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