MARTIN STRAUS, EIN EUROPÄISCHER MUSIKPÄDAGOGE AUS LUXEMBURG
MARTIN STRAUS, A EUROPEAN MUSIC PEDAGOGUE FROM LUXEMBOURG

Summary/Abstract: Martin Straus (1946-2019) was one of the music educators of the last decades who at- tracted attention beyond Luxembourg with his new creative and innovative ideas. His work “Music – Playing with Sound” which was developed in cooperation with a teacher and a sec- ond teacher, is based on a parameter concept, in which the six musical parameters – tone color, form, rhythm, dynamics, melody and harmony – are connected to the six activities of singing, playing, moving, composing, listening, recording/understanding so that it results in 36 points of contact for didactic-methodical considerations. The visual symbol is the “Klangmännchen” (“little sound man”), a cephalopod figure, which, much as a soap bub- ble, you can see, but which you cannot hear. From this elementary direction of thinking, the “Luxembourg Model” works well for both non-specialist teachers in the elementary field and for advanced music lessons in general education schools. The first scientific stud- ies have shown that it is also of practical use in special needs education programs. The concept “Music – Playing with Sound” is suitable for multi-perspective lessons using ex- amples of music from the past and the present as well as for pedagogical challenges in the areas of inclusion and integration.

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