MUSICAL PERCEPTION: A STUDY WITH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

This article has been carried out with university students, who were completing the Primary Education Teacher Degree in Spain and Portugal during the 2018-2019 academic year. The main objective is to know to what extent the visualization of the musical performance transmits emotions different from those transmitted only when listening to it. Various studies have shown that the perception of emotions caused by listening to music is largely influenced by the performance of the musicians. In this study, a questionnaire composed of closed questions was used to collect the data. 125 students from their respective higher education institutions both in Portugal and Spain participated. The results obtained support, in general, the theoretical reasonings and the empirical results shown in preceding evidence. The participants show that the visualization of a musical work generates different emotions performed by the interpretation of the musician, that is, that the interpretive features of each interpreter are of vital importance for the transmission of the different emotions.