THE ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF COUNTING-OUT RHYMES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL ABILITIES IN PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN Cover Image

ULOGA I ZNAČAJ BROJALICA U RAZVOJU MUZIČKIH SPOSOBNOSTI DJECE PREDŠKOLSKOG UZRASTA
THE ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF COUNTING-OUT RHYMES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL ABILITIES IN PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN

Author(s): Indira Meškić
Subject(s): Music, Preschool education, Educational Psychology
Published by: Islamski pedagoški fakultet Univerziteta u Zenici
Keywords: musicality; musical sensitivity; counting-out rhymes; rhythmic abilities; nonmusical abilities;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper was by relying on the relevant theoretical sources to enlighten the role and significance of counting-out rhymes in the development of preschool children’s musical abilities. The starting point was the fact that contemporary music pedagogy more often maintains the stance that all children are quite musically talented and capable of performing musical activities, although their achievements are of unequal quality. It is emphasized that a child’s musical ability is demonstrated through musical sensibility (hearing which implies sensitivity for the height and strength of musical tones, the sound colors, the relationship between tones based on their length) and the arousal of interests in music (which as a cognitive, emotional and voluntary reaction of a child to music can be interpreted as children's musicality). It is also pointed out that counting-out rhymes, as a type of musical activities, present the child’s most musical poetic, rhythmic and metric creativity, and that their specificity is that the counting-out rhymes stand out as children's creativity mirroring the beauty (educational, emotional, aesthetic) in the unbreakable bond between the creators and the performers of the same content within the same age range.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 163-170
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bosnian