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Strategies for Listening to Music and Music Appreciation in Compulsory School

The goal of this paper is to highlight the importance of listening to music in compulsory school. Even this field is present in the Croatian curricula over sixty years, it is evident that it has a cognitive implication because is oriented towards the recognition of musical elements. After the new reform in 2019, listening to music shifts from the position of dominant activity to the one which is very close to other activities, as singing, playing, and creativity. The intention of the author is to describe new concepts and approaches of multimodal listening, music understanding and appreciation in musical and wider context. The attention will be paid on: Listen to music with music making activity (LMM model), cognitive- emotional (CE) approach and Stage – English language – Music (SEM) concept.

approaches for listening to music, compulsory school, interdisciplinarity, music teaching, music understanding

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