Adolescent music preferences revolve around so-called popular music, specifically that which is highly manipulated by audio and music production technologies and aimed at the mass market. These processes can result in music genres that lean toward sound homogenization, a phenomenon that could gradually restrict adolescents’ access to the acoustic richness of other music styles that have emerged throughout history. The objective of this work was to analyze the music genres favored by a sample of Spanish adolescents (n = 464), based on their acoustic qualities (timbre, rhythm, and dynamics). The results of the automatic analysis indicated a great deal of overlap in terms of sound, which corroborated the homogeneous character of the genres. This calls for an approach to secondary music education that helps preserve musical richness and stylistic variety in the classroom.

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数字时代的音乐教育：针对青少年的音乐声音同质化的挑战

青少年音乐偏好围绕着所谓的流行音乐，特别是受音频和音乐制作技术高度操纵并针对大众市场的音乐。这些过程可能导致音乐流派倾向于声音同质化，这种现象可能会逐渐限制青少年接触历史上出现的其他音乐风格的丰富声学。这项工作的目的是分析西班牙青少年样本（n = 464），基于它们的声学质量（音色、节奏和动态）。自动分析的结果表明，在声音方面存在大量重叠，这证实了流派的同质性。这需要一种有助于在课堂上保持音乐丰富性和风格多样性的中学音乐教育方法。