scholarly journals The Role of Conservatories in the Process of the Professionalisation and Specialisation of Musical Activity

Author(s):  
Jernej Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Kurios ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Branckly Egbert Picanussa

The effectiveness of learning of Christian Religious Education at school needs some media. Song, as a part of musical activity, is one of the media that is used by Christian Religious Education teachers to teach the Christian faith effectively. The aim of this article is to affirm the important role of the song as one of the learning media of Christian Religious Education at school. This Article is written in qualitative method with literature study approach and observation as its approach. This article explains the nature and the purpose of Christian Religious Education, music in church life, music in the history of thinking and practicing of Christian Religious Education, and the use of song as media in the learning of Christian Religious Education at school. 


Author(s):  
Clifford R. Murphy

Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's keen sense of the musical life, this book delves into the rich tradition of country and western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast. The book draws on a wealth of ethnographic material, interviews, and encounters with recorded and live music to reveal the central role of country and western in the social lives and musical activity of working-class New Englanders. As the book shows, an extraordinary multiculturalism informed by New England's kaleidoscope of ethnic groups created a distinctive country and western music style. But the music also gave—and gives—voice to working-class feeling. Yankee country and western emphasizes the western, reflecting the longing for the mythical cowboy's life of rugged but fulfilling individualism. Indeed, many New Englanders use country and western to comment on economic disenfranchisement and express their resentment of a mass media, government, and Nashville music establishment they believe neither reflects nor understands their life experiences.


2021 ◽  
pp. 100917
Author(s):  
Irina Karabulatova ◽  
Galiya Ldokova ◽  
Elena Bankozhitenko ◽  
Yuliya Lazareva

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Karol Medňanský

Abstract The five hundreth anniversary that we commemorated in 2017 is a good opportunity to remind the significance of vocal works by Martin Luther. Creative musical activity of Dr. Martin Luther is somehow in the shadow of his other historically significant activities. It is a well-known fact that he was an outstanding musician who could play lute and could sing. In his household, he constantly played music and sang, while he actively engaged his family in performing music. In performing the reformatory ideas, he was aware of the extremely important role of religious singing, which he started composing since 1523. He is the author of 38 songs – chorales, while at the same time, he is the author of 20 melodies. In most cases, he used the texts of the Psalms. From his chorals the best known is entitled Ein feste Burg is unser Gott – The Fortified Castle is the Lord our God, that became worldwide the anthem of the Protestants. Luther have become an important inspirational source for the next generation of composers, and they culminated in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, including the works of contemporary Slovak composers – Roman Berger, Víťazoslav Kubička. The prevailing majority of Lutheran chorales is also the part of the Protestant Songbook in Slovakia.


The role of music in the upbringing of a harmoniously developed generation is invaluable. Unlike other forms of art, music is a miraculous tool capable of activating a person’s most delicate feelings, emotions, and rich emotional reserves in a person. This article presents the pedagogical aspects of the formation of personality in the lessons of music culture, suggestions on the use of national melodies, the opportunities of our musical heritage, and suggestions on the use of Uzbek classical music in the development of artistic taste of future music teachers. The three aspects of musical activity, namely the ability to listen to music, musical taste, and musical sensitivity, are analyzed as factors that determine the extent to which a music listener or performer’s overall artistic taste has developed. Keywords: music, sound, aesthetic education, piece of music, listening to music, musical taste, musical perception, rhythm, timbre, artistic taste.


2020 ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Tatyana Gennadievna Shcheglova

This article deals with the sense of pitch in children of early school age. The sense of pitch occupies the most important place among the abilities for music, and auditory sensations are dominating for the musical activity. The article contains valuable guidelines that may be useful in training Music Pedagogy professionals.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 205920431989196
Author(s):  
Cory D. Meals ◽  
Steven J. Morrison ◽  
Deborah A. Confredo

Vision serves a fundamental role in the human experience of musical performance. In conducting, this particular heuristic influences both expressive and coordinative aspects of musical activity. Ensemble conductors present a special case of musical gesture, as their activities are coordinative rather than directly sound-producing. While the influence of vision on evaluations of musical expressivity has been well studied, less attention has been paid to the temporal aspect of conductors’ gestures. Given anecdotal observations of a flexibly congruent relationship between conductor gesture and ensemble response and the ability of entrainment to promote preference, we theorize that alterations to natural action-sound congruence in conductor-to-ensemble settings may influence evaluations of conductor quality. Naturalistic performance video of five conductors was left intact or adjusted to an audio- or video-lead condition by a percentage of each excerpt tempo (intact, ±15%, ±30%) and fully crossed into stimuli orders. Participants were asked to rate the quality of the conductor, the ensemble, and the performance overall using a Likert-type scale bound by “ poor” and “ excellent.” Our results indicate that any offset, whether audio- or video-led, resulted in a lower level of conductor quality than intact, unaltered performance. While our effect size was small (η p2 = .02), participant ratings reinforce the role of action-sound congruence on observers’ perceptions and overall evaluation of conductors’ activities.


Author(s):  
Jeanne Sirotkina ◽  
Lyudmila Chebotar

The article substantiates the importance of vocal-choral work with children of various age categories in the revival of the national traditions of modern Ukrainian society. Systematized scientific and practical experience regarding the role of art in the creative formation of personality. Various approaches to the definition of “musical ability” have been studied. After a thorough study of the problem, the definition of musical abilities was chosen according to B. Teplov, who claims that musical abilities are a complex of individual psychological abilities necessary for engaging in musical activity and associated with any type of musical activity. The importance of vocal and choral skills in the development of musical abilities of children is revealed. It is specified that vocal skills include singing, breathing, sound production, sound science, diction, ensemble, system, articulation and diction. And the skills of the system and the ensemble; singing skills according to the conductor’s gesture of the teacher belong to choral skills. Attention is focused on the fact that possession of the listed skills contributes to the development of intonation. The results of observation regarding the effectiveness of vocal-intonation activity in the development of musical abilities of children are presented. The necessity of improving the studied phenomenon is proved. Vocal -intonation exercises aimed at developing children's musical abilities are proposed.


Author(s):  
Erinn Epp

It is a common, perhaps self-evident notion that people express themselves when they are engaged in musical activity. However, there seems to be little music therapy literature that deals explicitly with theories of musical expression. This paper examines some of the existing notions of self-expression in the music therapy literature, focusing on three models: Analytic Music Therapy, Guided Imagery and Music, and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. Implicit assumptions about the self and musical expression are explored, the latter in light of well-known musicological theories. The paper then looks at music-centered music therapy and the role of self-expression in it. In particular, the role of musical structure in self-expression is considered. It is suggested that a theory of self-expression for a music-centered practice cannot detach expressive content from the lived performance of music.


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