Korean music educators have wondered when they face with many non-music major university students. The fields of music deal with many areas: performance, music apprehension, music history, music therapy, and music theory, etc. Lecturers have no time to teach such vast areas of musical fields in one semester. Thus a questionnaire regarding non music major students` musical experiences has been provided to 315 students in two universities. The X2 shows us the differences between female and male students` preferences for music. Many students had little experienced in systematic learning for music in their previous schools. Beside regular music courses provided by the previous schools, most of Korean students` music related experiences are limited to play the piano in their childhood. This tendency occurs more frequent to female students than male, since female students had more an experience to play instruments than male students in their childhood. Piano is the most favorite instrument to girls, violins and flutes are the next favoured. Some of their musical activities were largely related to church activities. Other results show that most of male students had little experience to read music score and tend to buy more music CDs than female students. The reason why male students tend to buy some more CDs than female students is maybe caused by their lack of musical backgrounds in high school years through the specific Korean educational circumstances. Most of students prefer listening more instrumental music than vocal music. While female students played the piano, male students had more experience to play the guitar, etc.

• 김혜정 | Hae Jeong Kim