Arti musices, Vol. 44 No. 2, 2013.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
The Questioning of Goal Achievement in Teaching Music at the Time of Musical Over-Production
Sabina Vidulin
orcid.org/0000-0003-4840-9174
; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Odjel za glazbu, Pula, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In this paper the feasibility of the goal of teaching music in elementary and high schools at the time of mass music production has been analyzed. School is the only institution that systematically cultivates art music and aims to develop and improve the pupils’ music culture. The goal and objectives of music teaching are to acquaint students with valuable pieces of art music, enable them to accept it, to understand critical evaluation and make them participants in the cultural-artistic life of their environment. However, at the time of music over-production and domination of other musical genres, are the goal and objectives of music teaching achievable? The empiric research carried out has been motivated by the question of whether elementary school [ES] pupils and high school [HS] students listen to art music (also outside the classroom). Along with the main aim of research, the type of device for audio reproduction that is utilized when listening to music has been determined, followed by the place and frequency of listening to music, and it has been explored whether pupils during music lessons listen to the music, are interested in it and if they like listening to art music. The questionnaire among pupils from ES Kaštanjer Pula and ES Vrsar from Vrsar, HS Gimnazija Pula and HS Zvane Črnje Rovinj was carried out by two teachers and two professors, both professors of music culture/music art who have been teaching in these schools. The survey was carried out in April 2012 during the music culture and music art lessons. Students from the fifth and eighth grade of elementary school, and the first and fourth year of high school were examined, aged 10/11, 13/14, 14/15 and 17/18 years old.
The results of the completed research indicate that students often use the computer while listening to music in their free time, on the Internet in the first place, led by their personal musical preferences. They listen to art music during classes of music culture and music art, but only a small percentage of students consider that they listen to music they are interested in during music lessons. Only 19% of students have positively answered the question as to if they like listening to art music during lessons. An extremely small percentage of students listen in their free time to the CD which comes with the textbook. Although art music is not a subject of interest to students and there is not much to be said in favour of the contemporary styles and music genres that are part of a lasting daily repertoire on radio, TV and in other media, nor the preferences and taste of peer groups, the results show, however, that, with maturity, education and better acknowledgement of musical pieces, fourth year high school students have become more inclined to art music.
Therefore, systematic and planned work during music lessons is important and necessary to encourage students to accept art music and life with/accompanied by art. The lessons should be interesting and innovative, the classroom equipped with appropriate teaching aids and devices, while the teacher should use contemporary strategies to arouse the students’ interest in and attention to art music, in order to develop and improve their cultural and artistic competences. Individual research tasks by which art can be explored by students outside the classroom should be planned, as well as frequent student and teacher visits to the theatre and concerts of art music. As a result, they will not be merely passively attending the event, but actively exploring the music piece in its originality and also in relation to its musical and philosophical-sociological connotation.
Ključne riječi
music; culture; teaching; art; listening to music
Hrčak ID:
116797
URI
Datum izdavanja:
11.11.2013.
Posjeta: 2.533 *