Music Education

obligatory courses

Classroom

The classes are aimed at a closer presentation of issues connected with general music culture as well as explaining the meaning of musical sensitivity and musicality in personality development. In the process of active music-making such as singing, movement with music, playing percussion instruments, listening to music and composing elementary music (according to Orff's method) students gain the knowledge and skills connected with basic music notions and the use of music activities for their work with children.

Requirements: Considering enormous diversity of students' music experience, it is advised to check the individual level of music ability of each student in order to define their own path of music education during the studies.

The classes are aimed at a closer presentation of issues connected with general music culture as well as explaining the meaning of musical sensitivity and musicality in personality development. In the process of active music-making such as singing, movement with music, playing percussion instruments, listening to music and composing elementary music (according to Orff's method) students gain the knowledge and skills connected with basic music notions and the use of music activities for their work with children.

Requirements: Considering enormous diversity of students' music experience, it is advised to check the individual level of music ability of each student in order to define their own path of music education during the studies.

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Musical sheets are prepared by the lecturer regarding the performance ability of the participants.

A student knows:

- his musical preferences and the type of feeling the music,

- basic music vocabulary and notions,

- the sequent epochs in the history of music,

- different kinds of valued music and the criteria of its assessment,

- the selected examples of music pieces of different epochs,

- the music notes at the level allowing him to play simple melodies

and rhythms from the notes,

- the stages of musical child’s development (generally) and both the

optimal and critical stages for educating the selected kinds of a

child’s musical hearing (detailly).

A student can:

- recognize his personal music opportunities, develop and improve

them individually,

- listen carefully to music noticing the interdependence between the

selection of composing means and the mood, character and the

sound of the heard piece,

- recognize the form-creative rules of contrast, similarity and identity

within the heard music,

- moving in accordance with the music pulse and in various tempos,

- realize by movement and tataisation the rhythms in various tempos,

- to play on the chromatic clings from the notes simple melodies

within the treble key in tones to 3 signs,

- to reproduce on percussion instruments from the notes the

rhythms within two ,three and four -meter,

- rhythmise a short rhymed text and write it in notes, express it by

tataising and moving,

- compose a simple melodic and rhythmic accompaniment to

nursery songs ( burdon, melodic ostimo, rhythmic ostimo),

- create a short story to the selected classical music miniature,

- select the songs to be learned and listened by children, motor

games and dances, music pieces to listen and miniatures for

children’s improvisations, relevantly to the general and musical

child’s development,

- capture the dependence between the amount of his invested

effort and the precision of the playing the instruments.

- active participation in classes,

- account for the absences in the for agreed with the lecturer,

- to gain credits for the separate music activities,

- passing the test on the problems discussed during the classes as

well as in the recommended literature.