Despite the good results generated by studies of uses and needs of musical information published in the last years, there is lack of basic referential to support the organization of concepts and the mapping of variables associated to the phenomena that are 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, the results of one application of the model in a quantitative exploratory study with non specialized users of music are presented.
Users Studies; Musical Information Needs
