Music Education in School
Music in the nine-year-primary-school curriculum is planned by goal and process development. Basic music activities are: performing, creating and listening. Achievements in the three basic areas of music education are shown in and through the learning/understanding of the chosen musical structures and in development of musical ability, skills and informative knowledge, as determined in the syllabus for different classes.
A compulsory part of the cultural life of every primary school is the school choir for which a syllabus has been introduced in the framework of an extended programme. In independent primary schools there are six hours a week dedicated to work with one-, two- or three-part choirs, while in subsidiary schools (dislocated units of central schools), four hours a week are dedicated to one- or two-part choirs.
Secondary Schools
In the first year at secondary schools (called “gimnazija”) music is an independent subject and is allocated 70 hours (52 as a compulsory subject and 18 as a chosen subject). In higher classes music has the status of chosen subject with three modules: Musical language, world music culture and Slovenian music culture. Each grammar school should have at least one choir (girls, boys or mixed). The syllabus for an extended programme consists of four hours a week with the choir.
The music curriculum at secondary schools is also planned by goal and process development. It also included basic activities: performing, creating and listening and thematic-informative and musical-artistic content.
A talented pupil, who at primary level passed music schools, can continue their music education at art secondary schools (art “gimnazija”). Here they have a three-module syllabus:
- Module a: music clause,
- Module b: singing, instrument,
- Module c: jazz, popular music.
Education in music at art grammar school also lasts four years.