Studying the Lullabies from Around the World
Keywords:
lullabies from around the world, lullabies of Africa, pupils, music lessonsAbstract
The article is devoted to the question that students can be taught with lullabies from different world countries at art lessons. According to O. Marchun the functions of lullaby are the stimulation of child’s falling asleep, ordering, perception, communicative, removing the mother’s emotional stress. The author highlights their importance in children’s physical, mental and personal development. The article reveals the peculiarities of images, texts and melodies and their specifics.
The lullabies from around world should be implemented into different stages of art lessons in accordance with the subjects of curriculum. Therefore, different methods can be used: perception of lullabies in audio recording or in the teacher’s performance, discussion of the content of works, their musical images, expressive means, texts, learning and performing lullaby songs; listening to several works and comparing similar or contrasting images, melodies, characters; adaptation lullabies for the stage, inventions of rhythmic or instrumental accompaniment and movements, etc.).
The author gives methodical recommendations for using and studying by schoolchildren the lullabies from around the world based on E. Skvortsova’s creative project “Lullabies from Around the World”. The author offers list of topics to implement lullabies from the project. Some stages of lessons in 4-5 grades with the description of perception, analysis, performance of lullabies of different peoples have been described.
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