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Social and technological changes have made the musics of
the world available to most people. Educators agree on the
value of traditional music (folk, popular, ethnic, world), in
school music education. The guidelines of the music
curriculum of basic education in Portugal include learning
traditional music, knowing the musical patrimony and
developing a national identity.
Our teaching experience suggests that children often reject
traditional music in schools, despite existing rich musical
traditions in everyday life. The present study has
investigated the practice of Portuguese traditional music in
primary schools in Portugal, by focusing on the activities
carried out by 30 generalist teachers and their pupils, and
on the teachers’ views on children’s attitudes towards
traditional music.
The results of the questionnaire carried out with the teachers indicate that Portuguese traditional music is rarely practiced in primary schools and few teachers include it in their lessons. However, a positive result is that children are receptive to learning this musical style, and whenever they have opportunities to learn it, their general motivation for school music does increase.
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Music education Children Traditional music Primary school Music curriculum
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Citation
Boal-Palheiros, G. & Resende, R. (2010). "The practice of Portuguese traditional music in primary schools" in Proceedings of the 23 International Seminar on Research in Music Education, Changchun, China, 66-71.