Rehearsal rooms in the context of norwegian standard ns 8178:2014

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Karolina Warzocha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Power Level ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Sound Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Small Practice ◽  
Concert Halls ◽  
Small Ensemble ◽  
Acoustic Conditions

Music school students spend much more time rehearsing than performing in concert halls. Individual and small ensemble exercises are a major part of daily practice. The aim of the article is to verify whether the areas of rehearsal rooms given in functional programs attached to architectural contests for music schools, are sufficient to provide required acoustic conditions inside the chamber such as sound power level (SPL) and reverberation time (RT) which is preferred by musicians. The Norwegian Standard NS 8178:2014 was used to calculate the sound level generated by instruments. In this paper, the author will focus on small rehearsal rooms dedicated to individual practice and small practice groups of two or three members.

scholarly journals Hindrances to recognition in Finnish music schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-217
Author(s):  
Heidi Elmgren
Keyword(s):  
Main Issue ◽  
School Students ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Different Types

This article examines recognition relations between students and teachers in Finnish music schools. The research is based on written texts by music school students. The texts are analysed for difficulties in recognition relations, namely, hindrances to recognition in music schools. In the texts, some of the respondents describe situations that can be analysed as hindrances to recognition. The author analyses four different types of recognition-related problems in the data, the main issue being a tension between caring for people (respecting them) and promoting musical values (emphasising esteem). In addition to discerning problems, the article attempts to alleviate this tension. This might be achieved if different kinds of excellence, rather than just one, were to be developed in music schools. Students’ different abilities and motivations might then have a chance to emerge. Caring for people in the context of studying music would mean helping them to find the musical values they can and want to promote.

scholarly journals Merit-based exclusion in Finnish music schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Elmgren
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
School Students ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Fact Learning ◽  
Autumn And Winter

In this article I analyse merit-based exclusion in Finnish music schools for children and young people. I base my study on my earlier research on meritocracy and written data collected online from current and former music school students in the autumn and winter of 2015–2016. I am able to show there are implicit and explicit merit-based hierarchies in the music school. Hierarchies and exclusion are shown to be connected to the institution’s meritocratic features. As the hierarchies are merit-based, it is hard to question them. The hierarchies justify excluding students from certain practices such as performances. These practices are in fact learning opportunities, as has been established by earlier research. In addition to this, the hierarchies also influence students’ views of their potential and this, combined with limited learning opportunities, hinders their development. The hierarchies thus produce self-fulfilling prophecies of the students’ advancement. This is how the meritocratic system can in fact produce the failure it pretends only to reflect.

scholarly journals Social support as a mediator for musical achievement

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Antonina Nogaj ◽  
Roman Ossowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
School Students ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Musical Education ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
Support Level ◽  
Musical Achievement ◽  
Artistic Career

Abstract This article focuses on the issue of social support received by students of music schools in the context of their musical achievements. The theoretical part of this article contains the characteristics of factors related to the musical achievements of students; the support they receive from their environment is essential for their success in the process of musical education and their subsequent artistic career, in addition to their musical abilities and traits of personality. The research part is devoted to detailed analysis of the support level received by music school students and its correlation to their level of musical achievement. Social support is analysed with a view to its structure, distinguishing the following kinds of support: emotional, evaluative, informative and instrumental received from people who are significant to the music school student and indicates the essential presence of support in the process of musical achievement. Moreover, as part of the presentation of the study, the authors introduce their original tool for measuring social support tailored to the realities of music schools - the Scale of Social Support of the Students of Music Schools (Gluska, 2011). This tool may be applied in the work of educational psychologists and teachers in music schools.

Composition learning at a music school on the example of the School Composers’ Club at the K. Szymanowski Primary and Secondary Music Schools in Wrocław

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1(11)) ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Adam Porębski
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Age ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
School Year ◽  
Secondary Music ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One

It is no use looking for the educated musicians who were given a chance to come into longer contact with composition as a school subject being part of their formal education. Meanwhile, fascination with an act of creation and willingness to get familiar with music “from the inside” accompany school-age people. It is then that first, bashful compositional attempts are made. Over time, pupils search for new sounds on their instruments, improvise, experiment, get familiar with music literature. Such attempts should not go unnoticed – an observant pedagogue will easily notice creative predispositions in their pupils. In this article, the author shares his pedagogical experiences gained while giving composition classes at the K. Szymanowski Comprehensive Primary and Secondary Music Schools in Wrocław. The idea of promoting the art of composition was fully implemented in the form of the School Composers’ Club, founded in the school year of 2016/2017, the activity of which is based on the author’s original school curriculum, a system of individualized education and various forms of young composers’ presentations. The Club’s activity assumes, on the one hand, preparing pupils to take up compositional studies and, on the other one, fostering their general musical development enriched with creative competences.

Musculoskeletal Pain Among Polish Music School Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Nawrocka ◽  
Wladyslaw Mynarski ◽  
Aneta Powerska-Didkowska ◽  
Malgorzata Grabara ◽  
Wieslaw Garbaciak
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Activity Level ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
School Students ◽  
Visual Analogue Pain ◽  
Wind Players ◽  
Pain Symptoms

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and intensity of musculoskeletal pain and to estimate probability of developing playing-related musculoskeletal disorders, depending on risk factors, including gender, years of playing the musical instrument, frequency of practice (number of days per week), average daily practice time, and habitual physical activity level, in young instrumentalists. METHODS: A total of 225 instrumentalists aged 10–18 years, including 107 string-players, 64 keyboardists, and 54 wind-players, were investigated. The Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) together with a numerical visual-analogue pain intensity scale (VAS) was used to assess the participants’ musculoskeletal pain. RESULTS: The young instrumentalists most often complained of pain located in the neck (60.4%), wrists (44.4%), and upper (41.7%) and lower back (38.2%) areas. Girls complained of musculoskeletal pain significantly more often than the boys. A probability of the pain symptoms was increased with each consecutive year of practice (OR 1.135; 95%CI 1.021–1.261). CONCLUSIONS: Musculoskeletal pain in various body parts had already commenced at a young age in our sample of music students, and there was a gender difference (girls were more often affected). Results of our study suggest that an early prophylaxis of playing-related musculoskeletal disorders is needed among young musicians playing the various instruments.

scholarly journals PREvention STudy On preventing or reducing disability from musculoskeletal complaints in music school students (PRESTO): protocol of a randomised controlled trial

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera AE Baadjou ◽  
Jeanine AMCF Verbunt ◽  
Marjon DF van Eijsden-Besseling ◽  
Ans LW Samama-Polak ◽  
Rob A de Bie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomised Controlled Trial ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Musculoskeletal Complaints ◽  
Prevention Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Music School ◽  
Randomised Controlled

Disabilities within Sweden’s Art and Music Schools: Discourses of inclusion, policy and practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-409
Author(s):  
Adriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Music Education ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Starting Point

The aim of this paper is to investigate the discourses that emerge when Sweden’s Art and Music School leaders talk about the inclusion of pupils with disabilities in relation to policy. A starting point is that both earlier studies and policy documents have revealed inclusion problems within Art and Music Schools. The research question is: how are Art and Music School practice, policy and inclusion of pupils with disabilities connected within and through leaders’ discursive practices? The data are based on three focus group conversations with a total of 16 Art and Music School leaders from northern, central and southern Sweden. Discourse analysis as a social constructionist approach is applied since it provides a means to investigate the connection between social change and discourse. Concepts from both discursive psychology and Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis are applied in order to investigate connections between rhetorical strategies on a micro level and discourses on an institutional level. The concept of multicentric inclusion is introduced and applied in the analysis. In addition, concepts from educational policy theories are applied in order to analyse how policies are conceptualised and enacted in the context of leaders’ discursive practices. Regarding terminology, the results challenge this researcher when the concept of mixed abilities is introduced by the participants. The analysis exposes three discourses: multicentric inclusion discourse, normality discourse and specialisation discourse. There are tensions between the multicentric inclusion discourse and the normality discourse, as well as between the multicentric inclusion discourse and the specialisation discourse. The analysis leads to the following suggestions in order to achieve justice in music education practices and policies: (a) to enforce a specific national inclusion policy, (b) to challenge the normality discourse and (c) to bring together the multicentric inclusion discourse with the specialisation discourse.

scholarly journals THE INTERIOR DESIGN OF A MUSIC SCHOOL FOR PERSONS WITH VISION IMPAIRMENT WITH THE CONCEPT OF LANDMARK PERCEPTION IN SURAKARTA, INDONESIA

Pendhapa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
W Ranta Cosynala ◽  
Ahmad Fajar Ariyanto
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Vision Impairment ◽  
Music School ◽  
Line Shapes ◽  
Circulation Patterns ◽  
Concert Halls ◽  
The Republic ◽  
System States ◽  
Article 5 ◽  
Social Disabilities

The Law of the Republic of Indonesia, article 5, paragraphs 1 and 2 concerning the education system, states that every citizen has the same right to obtain a good quality education. Citizens who have physical, emotional, mental, intellectual, and social disabilities are entitled to special education, including vision impairment. One of those people with vision impairment skills is their music expertise by maximizing touch and the sense of hearing. This work aims to realize the Landmark Perception concept by applying dynamic repetition by visualizing the repetition of several elements, such as line, shapes, textures, colors, dimensional gradations, shape gradations, and circulation patterns. These work results are the interior designs for the main facilities, including vocal classrooms, guitar classrooms, Violin classrooms, drum classrooms, piano classrooms, concert halls, and some supporting facilities such as cafeterias and libraries. The results of this work can be a reference for interior designers in designing interiors in a contemporary style based on the needs of people with vision impairment.

Janusz Miketta – organizer and reformer of music education in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1 (10)) ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Jarosław Domagała
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Layer Structure ◽  
Stage Structure ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Music Appreciation ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Music Department ◽  
School Year ◽  
The University

Janusz Miketta (1890-1954) – Polish musicologist, pedagogue and music life organizer. He studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw. He completed his music studies at the Music Institute in Warsaw and in Leipzig, as well as at the F. Chopin Higher Music School in Warsaw. Next, he was the principal of the Music School in Warsaw and from 1919 – the director of the Music Society and the S. Moniuszko Music School in Lublin. In 1924, he started his teaching career at the F. Chopin Higher Music School in Warsaw and later at the M. Karłowicz Music School in Warsaw. In the years 1926–1931, he was a desk officer for music affairs in the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment and from 1931 – the secretary of the Local Sightseeing Society in Warsaw and Stanisławów. From 1945 to 1948, he was the head of the Music Education Section of the Music Department in the Ministry of Culture and Art and the chairman of the Program Committee of Music Education in the above-mentioned Ministry. Based on Janusz Miketta’s own concept of music education, the Ministry of Culture and Art issued a directive of 7 December 1945 on a special system of music education. Music schools in Poland were divided into vocational ones (lower, middle and higher) and those providing music appreciation classes. This three-stage structure made it possible to adjust teaching program to new needs and select a specialization based on the degree of a pupil’s talent. As a result of reforms introduced in the 1949/1950 school year, schools providing music appreciation classes were liquidated, though the three-layer structure of the school system was maintained. This schooling system, with minor changes, is still in operation in Poland. In the years 1948-1954, Miketta was a professor of the State Higher Music School in Cracow.

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