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Non-artificial Music as Subject Matter for Secondary Schools
Kopička, Ondřej ; Poledňák, Ivan (advisor) ; Drábek, Václav (referee)
This work examines the nature and significance of using popular music in music education. Through historical research and practical principles, it aims to construct a foundation for a new system of high school music education. The work unfolds in four parts. Part 1 probes past and present appearances of popular music in music education, especially in high-school textbooks. Part 2 is a contribution to the new system of education, based on an unbiased approach towards music. We are trying to understand the role of music in the lives of our students and give them appropriate examples to work with on the field of harmony, melody, rhythm and form analysis. However, this approach also deserves to illustrate the context of music in human life, where popular music quite often overwhelms all other styles. This part asks three major questions: Why to teach it, What to teach and How to teach it. Given answers should unravel the concept itself and illustrate the system as well as particular types of connection between music and other subjects (such as math, history, social studies etc.) Part 3 aims to serve as an illustration of a modern multimedia high-school textbook and proposes a new concept of music curriculum development for music teaching and learning. Finally, part 4 deals with attachments such as sounds,...
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