ABSTRACT
The foregoing analyses can serve as prolegomena to a theory of aesthetic judgment. That judgment itself has doubtless been, in certain legitimate cases, submitted to experimentation. Research on the appreciation of works has led to an empirical classification of taste and to observations concerning its diversity. Investigations of listeners' choices in the programs of radio broadcasts are numerous, and the results they have yielded are useful. They show the listening public distributed according to such variables as social class and age when they are given the option to favor light or serious music, contemporary or classical (Silbermann, 1955).
