Activities For Listening to Music at Primary Schools

The dissertation submits the theoretical elaboration about the problem o f listening activities in terms o f music education in primary school. Listening of music is an integral part o f music education in primary school. Its function is essential for this type o f education. Effectiveness o f listening activities in primary school depends on many factors which were examined from their functional point o f view. Requests o f an active form o f listening and related listening activities raise a question to what extend the music education text books deal with this problem. The text books were analysed in terms of listening activities problem and based on that the suggestion of listening repertory was created, supplemented with the methodical process of work. The individual examples were chosen, concerning music abilities and skills o f pupils attending the primary school. Creativity is the base for the music thinking development. Methods for cultivating the music creativity are the important part of education. Cooperative education, project method and use o f information technology in music education are the methods which help to develop pupil's music creativity. The other part of this dissertation is the suggestion for the way o f work with those methods developing the music creativity, related to listening..