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On the receptive method of teaching music in pre-primary education

Musical education in children of pre-primary-school age is executed by musical activities that include listening to music. Until now, the major part of the research in children’s interest in listening were mostly focused on children in the first grades of primary school. However, this study analyses the phenomenon in even younger children. The aim of the research was to find out whether pre-school-aged children are willing to listen to classical music. The hypothesis was that, at most, one third of the children studied will express the willingness to listen to the genre. Through an observation of the children while listening along with a follow-up interview on the children’s emotions, it was concluded that 100% of the children was open to the activity even though the overwhelming majority (93,75%) had no previous perceptive experience. In collective listening, the children’s attention span was longest when listening to the music from Romanticism, full of passion and dramaticity. It can thus be suggested that besides the rhythmical component, melody and harmony are also significant factors for children when listening to music.

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New Art

Listeners’ perceptions of music changed during World War II and the Cold War owing to the political conditions. Musical styles of the nineteenth and twentieth century were appreciated by listeners whereas other alternative modern styles (serialism, punctualism, sonorism, aleatoric music, dodecaphony, contemporary alternative improvised music…) seemed obscure. Modernism has not been publicly accepted but postmodernism which begins with minimal music, retro style, new simplicity, performance art, body art and conceptual art has been accepted. Sociological, aesthetical, philosophical and musical analyses are the foundation for complete understanding of music reception. Marketing is influential and has changed the listener’s perception in the twenty-first century from elite snobbism to cultural omniconsumption.

Die Perzeption des Zuhörers hat sich im Laufe des zweiten Weltkrieges und des kalten Krieges geändert genauso wie sich die politische Bedingungen und Funktionen geändert haben. Die musikalische Stile des 19. und 20. Jahrhundert waren on den Zuhörern anerkannt während die restliche alternative moderne Stile (Serialismus, Punktualismus, Sonorismus, aleatorische Musik, Dodekafonie, gegenwärtige alternative improvisierte Musik…) waren nur wenig bekannt und unbegreiflich für die Zuhörer.  Die Öffentlichkeit hat Modernismus nicht entgegengenommen, doch die Postmoderne, die fängt mit Minimal Musik an, nutzt Retro-Stile, neue Einfachheit, Performance-Art, Body-Art und Konzeptual-Art, war angenommen. Soziologische, ästhetische, philosophische und musikalische Analyse sind die Grundlage für das volle Verständnis der Rezeption und Perzeption der Musik. Marketing beeinflusst stark die Wahrnehmung des Zuhörers im 21. Jahrhundert und ändert diese von dem erstklasse Snobismus zur Kultur des Konsums.

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