Curricula

Music is represented in the framework education programmes in the following way:

Primary grades (years 1 to 5)

Learning skills, problem-solving skills, communication skills, social and personal skills, civil skills

Lesson content

Vocal exercises:

·      song and verbal expression: singing skills (breathing, intonation, establishing and creating a tone, dynamically unique singing), vocal hygiene, expanding one’s vocal range,

·      musical rhythm (performing songs in 2/4-, 3/4- and 4/4-time,

·      homophony and polyphony (pedal tones, canon, folk harmony etc.),

·      intonation, vocal improvisation (diatonic sequences in major and minor keys.

Instrumental exercises:

·      playing a musical instrument (reproducing motifs, themes, simple compositions),

·      rhythm, melody and style, musical improvisation.

Movement:

·      keeping time, moving to music,

·      expressing music through movement, responding to changes in the music.

Listening exercises:

·      tonal quality (length, intensity, timbre, pitch),

·      relationships between tones (harmony, chords),

·      forms of musical expression,

·      vocals, instrumentals, voice instrumental music.

Secondary education I (years 6 to 9)

Learning skills, problem-solving skills, communication skills, social and personal skills, civil skills

Lesson content

Vocal Exercises:

·      song and verbal expression,

·      intonation and vocal improvisation,

·      musical rhythm,

·      understanding musical notation for vocal compositions,

·      developing musical hearing and imagination.

Instrumental exercises:

·      playing a musical instrument,

·      recording music (notes, notation programmes),

·      writing accompaniments to musical theatre.

Movement:

·      moving to music (keeping time, dance steps, personal movement interpretation),

·      responding to changes in music (tempo, dynamics, rhythm and metre, harmony).

Listening exercises:

·      orientation in musical space and analysing a musical composition,

·      musical works and their composers,

·      musical styles and genres.

Secondary II

The educational field of arts and culture is represented here by the subjects music and fine arts along with a shared educational content of the integrating theme artistic production and communication.

Lesson content

Production:

·      vocal activities (cultivation of singing and vocal expression, intonation and rhythmic training, choral singing),

·      instrumental activities (playing and creating instrumental accompaniments, simple instrumental compositions, modern musical instruments and use of ICT),

·      musical movement activities (movement to music and gesture, movement études, dance as a means of communication).

Reception and Reflexion:

·      music as organised sound (piece of music / musical object, musical means of expression, musical form, musical feature, formal structure and semantics of a composition),

·      musical instruments, new technologies in music,

·      styles and genres of music, function of music,

·      origins and development of music,

·      music as a method of identification, self-presentation and a type of generational identity.