THE VALUE OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC EDUCATION AND MUSICAL ANIMATION: EDUCATION FOR MUSIC, EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC AND THERAPY THROUGH MUSIC
THE VALUE OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC EDUCATION AND MUSICAL ANIMATION: EDUCATION FOR MUSIC, EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC AND THERAPY THROUGH MUSIC

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary music education is based on criteria of globality, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, which even if it focuses on sound language, it is designed constantly on other learning areas involving the ludico-expressive, psychomotor, verbal and logical-mathematical sphere, to which are added the auditory-musical experiences of the child: perception, selection, storage, analysis, notation, handling and production. In the XXI century, music education is no longer a solitary discipline, codified for the untrained people, but rather a social experience of music that belongs to the whole community. Contemporary musical activities, in preschool and school education, are organized in so-called music workshops, where dynamic activities combining music and movement are practiced, education being achieved by musical animation, which replaces the rigid teaching methods and adapts to each individual. Musical animation is a cultural phenomenon, a social practice and a new teaching strategy in music education. This includes three main directions for the application of music education: education for music, education through music and therapy through music. Music education has the noble mission to activate, to raise awareness and to balance the child’s receptivity, giving them opportunity to know the sonorous world by directing them to express through sounds, to promote and develop the potential of the child, rich in expressive-communicative resources, the musical experience being also important in shaping intelligence.

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