Group Performance in Music Education Use of Epressive Means of Modern Popular Music in Music Education

Modern popular music is worldwide spread and it is developing rapidly. Therefore it is important for the music teachers to react to this fact. They should offer students the possibility to find their bearings in the great amount of newly developing popular music and also in the new expressive means of music. Of course, this can be done through lectures and suited listening, but I argue that both these activities should be accompanied by learning-by-doing musical activity, because it gives the students the opportunity of practicing the new information and of understanding it in context. My thesis therefore focuses on this issue. It deals with the possibilities of implementing group music performance using the expressive means of modern popular music in music education. It could also be used as a set of practical advices for creating suitable music arrangements for students. The author defines key terms, most important of which are undoubtedly the concept of modern popular music and defining the group of students. The second chapter lists suitable instruments and their description. It focuses on instruments suitable for participating in the rhythmic section. We use some of the Orff instruments as well as some other user-friendly instruments. The third chapter deals with playing in a group in music..