A MODEL FOR MAPPING THE NEEDS AND USES OF MUSICAL INFORMATION

Abstract

Despite the good results generated by the studies of uses and needs of musical information published in the last years, several of them has a lack of a basic referential to support the organization of concepts and the mapping of variables associated to the phenomena object of investigation. This paper presents a behavioral model for the needs and usage of musical information that can facilitate the identification of variables of analysis and production of instruments for data collecting in quantitative and qualitative studies. In order to validate the proposed conceptual model are presented the results of one application of the model in a quantitative ex-ploratory study with non specialized users of music.