Folklore traditions of the Prácheň region and their use in music education

This thesis is focused on the folklore of the Prácheň region and what are the possibilities of its use in music lessons, primarily in the first grade of elementary school. The theoretical part focuses on a detailed description of individual elements of Prácheň folklore. For the most part, it is devoted to musical folklore, specifically folk music, bagpipe tradition, dances or folklore traditions such as the konopická tradition, which is gradually falling into oblivion. In addition to musical folklore, it describes traditional dishes or costumes. The practical part is divided into two sections. The first section is devoted to questionnaires. One for pupils from the region of Prácheň, which aims to find out the level of knowledge of Prácheň folklore and the degree of motivation to learn about it further, and the other for teachers, who aims to find out whether and to what extent they pay attention to Prácheň folklore in their classes. The second section of the practical part contains preparations for music education, each of which is dedicated to a topic related to Prácheň folklore. The themes are bagpipes, konopická and Švanda the piper, while many other folklore traditions of the area appear in them. With the help of a questionnaire survey, it was found that only a part of the interviewed pupils..