Didactic functions of music-pedagogical tasks

Recent music-pedagogical research has been increasingly concerned with the possibilities and requirements of a new task culture for musical instruction. As a structural basis of such a task culture, six didactic functions of tasks could be determined in order to derive the criteria for the construction and evaluation of musical instruction materials. This paper gives an account of these functions, also with regard to selected aspects of musical instruction, and shows their interconnectedness. (DIPF/Orig.