The word “appreciation” encompasses various activities such as “listening,” “watching,” and “feeling.” In music appreciation classes, various activities such as listening to sound sources and watching images are conducted. Subsequently, it is important to determine how the teachers who conduct these “appreciation” classes view these classes. This study aims to clarify how “listening” is perceived by teachers in music appreciation classes by analyzing their attitudes toward such classes. An open-ended questionnaire survey was conducted in public junior high schools in Hiroshima Prefecture; the collected data were analyzed by using the KJ method. The results of the survey revealed that students and teachers engage in four types of “listening”: (1) analytical “listening” focusing on the elements that form music, (2) repetitive “listening” in class, (3) intensive “listening” that excludes visual information, and (4) “listening” as an ability that the students aim to develop in the appreciation class.