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Playing the recorder at elementary schools to prevent breathing defects
Kolandová, Eva ; Hurníková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Kmentová, Milena (referee)
This thesis focuses on recorder playing as prevention of respiratory diseases and its significant impact on proper diaphragmatic breathing. The main goal is to monitor the effect of the active exercise on child players' health and analyzing the aspects of the recorder playing. The theoretical part describes the recorder's history and evolution as well as its therapeutic use, wind instrument in relation to musicotherapy and well-established breathing methods. This work also presents suitable literature related to the recorder, significant personalities connected with the recorder playing and healthy breathing methods propagators. The practical part introduces the implementation of pedagogical research that specializes in observation of skills and abilities of preschool and middle school kids improved by the recorder playing. It also shows the results of an experiment that monitored the effect of breathing exercises on breathing parameters progress within an authentic environment of elementary school music lessons.

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