Curricula

Table 1: Music hours per week in 8-year primary school

Secondary school

MUSIC ART in the gymnasium

Teaching Musical art in high school wants to expand the musical education of students, to develop their musical identity, musical inclinations and dispositions, skills and knowledge. Particular importance is given to active participation in the life of their communities, performing in amateur music societies, regular visits to concerts, theater and other musical events.

The aim of the Musical art is an understanding of world music and cultural heritage, active listening and elaboration of music.
The tasks of Musical art are:
• develop an interest in musical art;
• develop the capacity for critical listening;
• recognize the ethical and the aesthetic value of art music of world and national heritage;
• distinguish features musical acts, depending on the style period through active listening;
• compare the valuable artistic achievements of Croatian composers as part of European musical criteria;
• encourage students' desire for independent acquisition of new knowledge and knowledge about the art of music;
• encourage the direct personal involvement in the performance of music in school ensembles and artistic societies outside of school.

Programme structure
a) The four-year program
In general classes, language and grammar the realization of teaching for the first three grades is 35 hours per year, and IV. class 32 hours per year.
Great attention was devoted to hearing-analytical approach to the detection of all elements of musical language.
In first grade teaching material was distributed as follows:
• musical work and its components;
• review of the music;
• music of ancient civilizations;
• middle ages (unanimous sacred music, secular music unanimous, the development of polyphony, the use of musical instruments);
• music of the Renaissance (The Netherlands polyphony, secular vocal music, vocal music of spiritual content, the instrumental music of the Renaissance).
 In second grade:
• baroque music (general features of baroque music, instrumental music types, vocal-instrumental forms, old Croatian songbooks and collections of spiritual music);
• gallant style;
• Viennese classics.
In third grade:
• romanticism;
• impressionism.
In fourth grade:
• the development directions of the musical art during the twentieth century.

b) The two-year program
Music art in the Natural Sciences and Mathematical High School lasts two years. The first class covers the introduction to the musical arts and the development of music from its beginning to the end of the 18 century, while the second class deals with an overview of the development of music from Beethoven to the present day.
Under the program meet the individual components of music news and mainly parallel to the historical (chronological) approach to certain types of musical works.

Table 2: Music hours per week in secondary school (gymnasium)

Musical aims are focused on developing:

• knowledge of musical expressive elements;
• knowledge of musical instruments and vocal, instrumental and vocal-instrumental groups;
• knowledge of musical forms;
• knowledge of musical history and composes;
• knowledge in musical national heritage and contemporary musical literature;
• ability for independent learning in musical culture;
• ability for independent assessment of musical pieces;
•  participation in performing music in school ensembles and musical association in school and outside the school.

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