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The aim of this contribution is to introduce software and hardware based instrument Zvukodrom and its innovational approaches in musical eduaction. The author introduces the reasons behind creating this instrument and its influence on educational process. He also explores further ideas of using Zvukodrom, which arise from possibilities of the intrument.
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Topic discusses is the importance of integrating the principles of musical improvisation in to the educational process. Collective and individual musical subjects, or playing an instrument bringing space to develop imagination and creativity through improvisation. Improvisation is part of music from its beginnings. Improvisation is a part of jazz music, experimental music, or as a separate genre – free improvisation. My basic aim is to present the possibilities, methods and techniques of teaching improvisation. I am focused to music games for elementary music schools.
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The author presents project, the aim of which is adaptation of folklore songs for voice and piano by contemporary Slovak composer Pavol Krška. The project is the result of pedagogical practice needs. All songs were composed for specific interpreters in the specific key e.g. a baritone. The project gives a chance to other voice groups of a tenor and a bas to include songs to their repertory. The same principle works also in case of the adaptation for female voices.
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In this contribution we will be focusing on the position of Musical Sociology in Musical Pedagogy and Education. Dynamic development of society, changes in cultural and value orientation of pupils influenced music education at all levels of the general and vocational education. The musical environment of the family, schools, the external environment and the community, amateur and professional music offer underlies the increasing need of solving musical and sociological issues. The author presents the content of the subject Musical Sociology on Master´s degree program of Teaching Musical Arts at Prešov University in Prešov and reflects on sociological surveys conducted by students of this university.
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In my paper I want to draw your attention to an information about activites of Society for Music Education in this period. I will present the opinion of the Czech Music Teaching Society directed to reviewing the reform in progress – Standards for music education. I would encourage wider discussion that should define the goals of the Music for the next term and concept of music education in general. Another point of my contribution is viewing the preparation of future teachers at the Pedagogical Faculty, further training of teachers in general and results of 1st Music Olympiad Czech Republic 2018.
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The understanding of art, the act of self-revelation and a capability of empathy mediates an aesthetic testimony and opens up a new form of interpersonal communication.
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The paper presents didactic analysis of workshop for children from elementary schools based on the Leoš Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen, which is realized in the Leoš Janáček’s Memorial, the Moravian Museum, Department of the History of Music.
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The demand of current trends in music education is to link all musical activities based apon childrens musical creativity. In this paper, we will discuss the creativity that is directly related to music. We will build on the theories of constructivism, combining them with the techniques of contemporary music and contemporary art. Our interest is to analyse the Musical Creativity Measurement Tests and Model of Creative Thinking in Peter Richard Webster‘s Music.
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This paper informs the professional public with the results of the cooperation between the orchestra of the Harmony Foundation and the Children's Home Klánovice. We will evaluate this project, which brought to the Czech Republic the ideas of the Venezuelan youth program El Sistema. A combination of qualitative research tools has been used. Interviews, document analysis, and, above all, long-term observation. Although the children involved in the orchestra benefited from music activities provided, the project was abandoned after two years due to lack of theirs interest. The article attempts to identify the reasons why children did not sustain in the orchestra through their initial enthusiasm. The results obtained could help to modify similar current and future music education programs for children with specific psychosocial and social needs.
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One of important objectives of music education is to broaden and deepen the students’ capability to understand and appreciate 20th - and 21st -century classical music, which is a significant reflecting mirror of the present-day world. A possibility to achieve such an aim lies in using the potential of such music compositions that react directly to a strongly resonant story of the 20th or 21st century. Illustrated primarily on the example of Jan Palach’s death and compositions inspired by Palach’s story, the thought is further developed in context with the current educational conception in the Czech Republic; all this with a double intention: Firstly, to reflect on the conception of educational objectives as specified in state curricular documents; and, secondly, to point out an important objective that seems to be missing from the conception, which lies in the fully experienced life here and now, not only in preparation for the future.
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The paper presents results of the research that took place at music schools in the first half of 2018 throuh a form of questionnaire survey. The pupils' real knowledge of music theory was explored and particular interest was focused on what do they like and appreciate on music theory subject and also with what from the subject are they dissatisfied and what do they miss.
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The paper will present and interpret the results of an exploratory survey on the trends and best practices in the teaching of music theory at primary art schools, specifically in relation to the selection of certain musical activities, the representation of different genres of music and the application of musical activities within the genres of music. The exploratory survey was conducted in the form of an online questionnaire among music theory teachers at the basic art schools. The survey was carried out in the spring of 2018 as a constituent part of a specific research by the Department of Music Education at the Faculty of Education of the Masaryk University in Brno entitled: Current Trends in Music Theoretical Teaching in Basic Art Schools of the Czech Republic.
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The article deals with didactic materials used in elementary art schools in the Czech Republic in the study subject of Music. The didactic materials are divided into textbooks, songbooks and other didactic materials used by both teachers and pupils. The data was obtained by the method of questionnaire survey in the framework of the research Current trends in musical theoretical teaching at elementary art schools in the Czech Republic. The research focused on the education in the musical field of elementary art schools. The purpose of this research was to look at the content of the curriculum and the teaching methods used. The aim of the research was then to find out the current state of this issue and propose possible improvements of the quality of teaching, for example through the preparation of didactic materials.
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The article deals with the singing education system in the Czech Republic in connection with the training of students for the most frequently selected professions. Here, the views of three interested parties, i.e. students of singing, singing pedagogues and professional singers, are taken into account. The data used is based on the research on the quality of singing education, which is part of the prepared dissertation.
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The main aim of the contribution is to familiarize those who are interested in multimedia and modern technologies in music education with the project “The Support of Digital Literacy Development”, in which The Department of Music at The Faculty of Education of Masaryk University participates. All the inputs and outputs of the project are presented, as well as the practical use of the outcomes. The paper also offers an overview on the current state of using multimedia in music education, which follows the research activities of The Department of Music including the latest research which focuses on music schools. Finally, certain news and recent options of use of multimedia and technologies for music teachers are pointed out. The study originated in framework of the project Podpora rozvoje digitální gramotnosti (CZ.02.3.68/0.0/0.0/16_036/0005366).
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A crucial means to the education of music is active engagement with musical works. The aim of this study, which took place among students in 2017 upon the completion of their elementary compulsory education, was to discover the impact of music lessons and other musical education on receptive education, on the cultivation of their musical tastes and on their ability to identify selected musical samples from the area of artificial music. The participants of the study were during the study’s analysis sorted into students with basic musical education – elementary school/high school, and extended musical education – elementary art school/private music teacher. One of the hypotheses of the study was the notion that the extent of further musical study heightens students’ ability to identify the author, the name of a work and the work’s historical period. The effect of the studied musical instruments on the reception of the work of J.S. Bach on the part of the students of elementary art schools was one of the objects of the study of the Masaryk University’s Music Department, done in 2018.
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Topic discussed is the theory of flow and its significance in the context of the teaching of musical improvisation in elementary music education. The theme is closely related to musical psychology and deals with the experiences, feelings and psychological conditions associated with interpretation. The flow condition helps to cope with stress situations, increases concentration and brings joy or feelings of musical activity, thereby improving the quality of life. It is a musical improvisation and is a suitable form to achieve a flow condition. This is one of the important arguments for introducing music improvisation into the music school syllabus.
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The article deals with didactic materials used in elementary art schools in the Czech Republic in the study subject of Music. The didactic materials are divided into textbooks, songbooks and other didactic materials used by both teachers and pupils. The data was obtained by the method of questionnaire survey in the framework of the research Current trends in musical-theoretical teaching at elementary art schools in the Czech Republic. The research focused on the education in the musical field of elementary art schools. The purpose of this research was to look at the content of the curriculum and the teaching methods used. The aim of the research was then to find out the current state of this issue and propose possible improvements of the quality of teaching, for example through the preparation of didactic materials.
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Hanns Eisler’s Suite for Septet No.1 op.92a (Variations on American Children’s Songs) is film music, composed for Joseph Losey’s documentary, A Child Went Forth, shown in 1942. The musical content of the film, about children’s summer camp, has been adopted from such nursery rhymes as Little Ah Sid, Strawberry Fair or Sourwood Mountain. This study points out, besides the work’s musical attributes, a few typical momentums of composition, adding tips to film programs already operating in schools.
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The paper will present and interpret the results of an exploratory survey on the trends and (best practices or teacher preferences) in the teaching of music theory at elementary art schools, specifically in relation to the selection of certain musical activities, the representation of different genres of music and the application of musical activities within the genres of music. The exploratory survey was conducted in the form of an online questionnaire among music theory teachers at the basic art schools. The survey was carried out in the spring of 2018 as a constituent part of a specific research by the Department of Music Education at the Faculty of Education of the Masaryk University in Brno entitled: Current Trends in Musical-Theoretical Teaching at the Elementary Art Schools in the Czech Republic.
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