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Experiencing Folk Music in Children

Konstanca Zalar ; Department of Music Faculty od Education University of Ljubljana Kardeljeva ploščad 16, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Sažetak

Through everyday exposure to language and music, individuals within a nation
become sensitive to the melodic and rhythmical structure of their folk musical
culture. It represents improvisational abilities of individuals and groups as well.
Despite all changes, it indisputably maintains all characteristics of music parameters
as inheritance of past ages. Due to its social role, it appears throughout everyone’s
life – and it also represents an important part of children’s life. In the study that was
carried out with two groups of children between six and nine years of age, we were
interested in determining how children experience music making with elements of
folk music and how it is possible to create the circumstances which can provide the
spontaneity of folk music within the structured environment (like primary school).
The research was designed as a phenomenological case study. This method allowed
us to gather data which provided a deeper insight into the ways in which participants
are able to play using elements of folk music and the way they feel while using such
material. The results show that, contrary to the basic fact of spontaneity in folk
music, 6 and 7 year old participants were not able to use music parameters to play
with and had yet to learn how symbolic play works out in musical language on the
basis of communication. The most natural way to bridge the gap between “learning”
songs and experiencing individual musical expression in a manner of folk music in
children seems to be creative work with lyrics in Slovene language. We also found
that children develop social competences of a great value, when they are involved in
symbolic play with folk music elements in the improvisational mode.

Ključne riječi

folk music; improvisation; music language; music making

Hrčak ID:

247856

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/247856

Datum izdavanja:

21.9.2020.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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