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Modern teaching of any subject, including music teaching, with regard to the new technological age and digitization implies, in addition to the use of traditional teaching aids (e.g., traditional textbooks), the application of digital technology (e.g., digital textbooks). The computer has become an almost irreplaceable aid of digital technology in teaching, but its purpose is …

The paper explores students’ preferences for classical music, 20th century music, and world music, as well as the influence of student age, gender, and previous familiarity with the piece of music on the preferences for 20th century music and world music. As a part of the research, a general data questionnaire and an assessment scale …

This paper explores the primary school student’s preferences of the world musics and the Croatian traditional music. As a part of the research a questionnaire and sound questionnaire were administered to 159 pupils attending the third and the seventh grade. The results do not confirm the connection between gender and preferences of the wold musics …

The aim of this research is to evaluate the existing model of music education for future teachers as well as the characteristics of music teaching at various teaching study programmes in Croatia. A survey has been conducted among students at the Faculty of Education in Osijek (N = 307), the Faculty of Teacher Education in …

In the education system of the Republic of Croatia, music teaching has been recognized as an important element in the cultural development of students through acquisition of musical competencies. Music has been taught as a separate subject at primary school level and it has been established as a separate entity in terms of both syllabus …

Opera is a complex musical-theatrical form that combines music, dance and visual arts and literature. This paper analyzes the dual (internal and external) role of the children’s chorus in the musical aesthetic education of a child. The authors analyzed the role of the children’s chorus in the operas of Romanticism (Georges Bizet’s Carmen, Giacomo Puccini’s …

The aim of this research was to examine students’ attitudes toward classical music and music classes in the elementary and secondary school and the impact of exposure to classical music during the secondary and higher education on the students’ attitudes toward classical music and music classes in general. The results confirm the positive impact of …

This paper discusses the issue of the application of instructional technology in music classes. Taking into account the findings in the field of children’s musical development (music perception, performance, musical preferences and musical creativity), the role of instructional technology in the development of such skills is discussed. The author analyzes examples of musical compositions and …

School tends to shape pupils’ cultural identity. In this process, its partners are school subjects and contents that in its nucleus have an artistic note, and it is, among other things – music art. The role of music culture/music art is significant to the extent that the primary structure it deals with, is the artistic …

This paper studies the attitudes of fourth and eighth graders of elementary schools from Splitsko-dalmatinska and Hercegovacko-neretvanska Counties toward music in general and to Music Education. The results have confi rmed a signifi cant infl uence of gender, age and place of residence on pupils’ attitudes toward music. Furthermore, the results have indicated that pupils …