Development of Schoolchildren’s Attitudes towards Ethnical Music by Modernized Forms of Folklore Expression Cover Image

Moksleivių etnomuzikinių nuostatų ugdymas modernizuotomis folkloro raiškos formomis
Development of Schoolchildren’s Attitudes towards Ethnical Music by Modernized Forms of Folklore Expression

Author(s): Sigitas Balčiūnas, Vytautas Žalys, Rasa Stoškuvienė
Subject(s): Music
Published by: VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Keywords: Ethnical music; ethnical musical education; attitudes; modernized forms of folklore expression.

Summary/Abstract: Expression of ethnical music in modern socio-cultural environment is becoming increasingly problematic. It is most clearly reflected by attitudes and value orientations of schoolchildren, as potential successors of traditions. Negative tendencies in respect of ethnical music among pupils become evident. Combined with the fading need for traditional music it makes the cognitive educational process of ethnical music more complicated. The paper analyzes the problematic aspects of this phenomenon and presents one of the possible methods to make the cognition of ethnical music more efficient. The method is based on the application of modernized forms of folklore expression in the process of musical education. Declarative research results disclose the situation of attitudes towards traditional and modernized forms of folklore expression among senior forms’ pupils in the country. Based on the results of the executed educational experiment, the paper presents the tendencies that form attitudes towards ethnical music through modernized forms of folklore expression in the process of musical education.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 39-52
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: English