TYPOLOGY OF FOLK GAMES
TYPOLOGY OF FOLK GAMES

Summary/Abstract: Researchers and teachers dealing with folk games sooner or later face the question of classifying the games. Researchers need such a system for their comparative work and for publication of the material, while teachers need it for use in practice. Classification can be made on the basis of all elements of the game. A system can be created on the basis of the text of the games, their melody, spatial form or the age of the children playing them. Each of these has its justification: the musicologist and the singing teacher are interested mainly in melody, the folklorist and literature teacher in the text, and the physical education teacher in spatial form. It is also important for teachers to know what games to teach children of which age. However, none of the elements mentioned is able to serve as a basis for a system that contains all kinds of games.

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