ACHIEVEMENT IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF MUSICALLY GIFTED CHILDREN IN LOWER MUSIC SCHOOL
ACHIEVEMENT IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF MUSICALLY GIFTED CHILDREN IN LOWER MUSIC SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: Music schools are specific educational institutions which teach children tounderstand musical language, the rules of musical writing and how to play aninstrument. It is assumed that children who enroll in music school have a certain level of“musicality”, i.e. possess musical ability. Starting from this premise, in this paper wewanted to identify the number of musically gifted children, from the total number ofchildren enrolled in the first year of lower music school. The research was conducted on125 learners who enrolled the first year of Music school Josif Marinkovic in 2014/2015.The paper was organized as a linear study which followed the achievement of learnersduring the aforementioned school year. The study was conducted by solfeggio andmusical instrument teachers. The identification of musical giftedness was followedthrough the following criteria: recognition and reproduction of tones and intervals,reproduction of rhythmic models and reproduction of short music units. Solfeggioteachers monitored the first two criteria (recognition and reproduction of tones andintervals and reproduction of rhythmic models) while musical instrument teachersmonitored the other two (reproduction of melody phrases and reproduction of shortmusic units. Achievements were assessed four times during the school year and acomparison of results gathered by solfeggio and musical instrument teacher wasconducted. At the end of the school year a result analysis was conducted; the results ofwhich showed that 13 learners who were monitored by solfeggio teachers and 9learners who were monitored by music instrument teachers successfully completed thecriteria. Methods for evaluating the proposed criteria and analysis of the gatheredresults will be presented in this paper.

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