The Role of Cultural Heritage in 21st-Century Music Education

in Civic Review (2020), 15(2019), 317-328

Cul­tural her­it­age is an in­teg­ral part of Hun­garian music edu­ca­tion. Folk tra­di­tions and folk songs are taught in every school, from the cap­ital city to the smal­lest vil­lages. Thou­sands of ... [more ▼]

Cul­tural her­it­age is an in­teg­ral part of Hun­garian music edu­ca­tion. Folk tra­di­tions and folk songs are taught in every school, from the cap­ital city to the smal­lest vil­lages. Thou­sands of songs were col­lec­ted by Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók, who ad­op­ted them in their clas­sical com­pos­i­tions. With this they earned fame for Hun­garian folk music and tra­di­tions. Zoltán Kodály also com­posed a series of music read­ing ma­ter­i­als, mainly based on folk songs, which is cur­rently used on all levels of Hun­garian music edu­ca­tion. Not only the Kodály concept, but the Táncház-method was also se­lec­ted in the Re­gister of Good Safe­guard­ing Prac­tices of UN­ESCO Cul­tural Her­it­age. In our di­gital age, the net-gen­er­a­tion, un­like the pre­vi­ous stu­dent pop­u­la­tions, can have dif­fer­ent habits, which is the reason why stu­dents’ music skills were tested with tech­no­logy-based meth­ods and tools. They are sur­roun­ded by pop­u­lar media; however, the value that folk tra­di­tion of­fers should be in­ev­it­able in their edu­ca­tion. The find­ings of our re­search provides input for the edu­ca­tional sys­tem about Hun­garian stu­dents’s music lit­er­acy, and their fa­mili­ar­ity with its vari­ous ele­ments, es­pe­cially with cer­tain com­pon­ents of their cul­tural her­it­age. [less ▲]

TESTING MUSIC READING WITH EYE TRACKING IN THREE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

in Max, Charles (Ed.) EAPRIL 2015 Proceedings (2016)

In our research we examined 10-14 years old students' music reading skills with eye tracking analysis in different music schools in Luxembourg, Germany and Hungary. Our aims were to explore certain music ... [more ▼]

In our research we examined 10-14 years old students' music reading skills with eye tracking analysis in different music schools in Luxembourg, Germany and Hungary. Our aims were to explore certain music reading strategies, reveal the characteristics of expert sight-readers and also to find text characteristics. During the examination students got six different musical examples (three for rythm reading, three for singing from Zoltán Kodály) that appeared on a computer's screen, and after one minute silent reading they performed them.The results suggest that the knowledge of musical patterns strongly influences not only the duration and accuration of a musical performance, but the fixation counts, and also gender differences were revealed. Our further aim is examining the relationship between the development of reading and music reading skills. [less ▲]

Study of eye movement on selected textbooks

Scientific Conference (2015, November 25)

Eye tracking researches in music literacy in European context

Scientific Conference (2015, June 08)