La psicología de la música trata de explicar la respuesta humana a la misma, de forma conceptual y empírica. Dentro de ésta, una línea de investigación es la que estudia el gusto musical, en la cual se centra el presente estudio, cuyo objetivo es comparar el gusto musical y las preferencias de géneros musicales, entre personas con estudios y sin estudios de música. La muestra se constituyó por 104 participantes que se dividieron en dos grupos: a) individuos con formación musical (CFM); e b) individuos sin formación musical (SFM). Ambos grupos se formaron con 52 participantes. Nuestros resultados sugieren que la música es importante en la vida de las personas y diariamente la escuchan. A las personas CFM la música les gusta por ser un medio de expresión, y los géneros que prefieren están inclinados hacia la música culta; mientras que a las personas SFM, la música les gusta porque las relaja y prefieren los géneros musicales asociados con la música popular. Para ambos grupos, lo que más gusta de la música son las partes que conforman su estructura. Concluimos que la educación es determinante en el gusto musical y en la elección de la música que más gusta.

The psychology of music can be found within a conceptual and empirical framework that is useful as a reference to explain the human response to it. An important research line of this discipline is the one that studies the musical taste, on which is based this article. The comparison is between musical taste and preferences of musical genres among people with musical education and those without it. The sample was constituted by 104 participants that were divided into two groups: a) individuals with musical formation (MF), with 52 participants (19 women and 33 men); b) individuals without musical formation (WMF). As a result, it was found that music is important in peoples' daily lives, the MF people like music because of musical expression, and their favorite music genre was the highbrow. This contrasts with the WFM people that like music because they find it relaxing- their favorite musical genre is pop. Both groups agree in their favorite musical component- the parts that integrate music. Although the MF group likes the highbrow genre more because of the parts that constitute its structure. Conversely, the WMF group were drawn primarily to the lyrics and rhythm. We can conclude that education is a determining factor in musical taste, and therefore plays a part in the choice of what music we like the most. Since musical tastes change depending on musical education held by the individual. People that have musical education encourage their taste. They use music as an artistic expression resource, and the genres they listen to are what can be considered "highbrow" music. Whereas the people that don't count with musical knowledge listen to popular music because they want to relax themselves. These individuals spend more time daily listening to music that the vox populli listens to because they like the lyrics and the rhythm.