The Musical Style in the Music Curricula. Ideas for an Integrative Approach to the Problem Cover Image

Музикалният стил в учебните програми по музика. Идеи за интегративен подход към проблема
The Musical Style in the Music Curricula. Ideas for an Integrative Approach to the Problem

Author(s): Zornitsa Atanasova Dimitrova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, School education
Published by: Издателство НМА „Проф. Панчо Владигеров”
Keywords: music style; theme-centric approach to teaching; competence-oriented approach to training; key competencies; interdisciplinary links; integrative methods for teaching music

Summary/Abstract: With the adoption of the conception of key competencies and its integration into the training process in the form of a competency-based approach to the training, the new curricula have undergone some changes. In them the priority should be given to concepts, which lay the foundations of the given field of study, and which correspond to the widest possible range of knowledge acquired in other teaching disciplines. Against this background, the questions remain open as to the reasons why exactly the concept of “style”, which fully meets the criteria set and is contained in normative documents regulating the teaching content in music, is excluded from the curriculum in music and whether on the whole it is possible to teach the training information in the upper course of study without introducing stylistic issues. The report presents the idea of teaching the training content through a theme-centric, style-oriented approach that synthesizes training information about the style based on the Ockham’s principle. The sequence of teaching the stylistic issues in the context of the educational content, covering the history of musical art, is presented in tabular form, giving examples of which concepts can be successfully connected with the knowledge of style. The categorial nature of the style provides an incredible number of opportunities for implementation of interdisciplinary links within the framework of music training, planning and implementation of binary or integrated lessons, which could contribute to re-create the idea of a competency-based approach to training. Some examples of such lessons are suggested.

  • Issue Year: 9/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 274-284
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian