Traditional and Modern Methods of Learning and Teaching Music in Bulgaria

This ethnographic study of music education in the domain of Bulgarian traditional music examines the relationship between music, music education, and culture and makes some hypotheses about cognitive processes in music learning in aural tradition. It demonstrates how music education was embedded in...

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Published in:Research studies in music education 1996-12, Vol.7 (1), p.1-12
Main Author: Rice, Timothy
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This ethnographic study of music education in the domain of Bulgarian traditional music examines the relationship between music, music education, and culture and makes some hypotheses about cognitive processes in music learning in aural tradition. It demonstrates how music education was embedded in larger cultural processes in the pre-communist and communist (1944-1989) periods and documents the continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern methods of learning and teaching. Participant-observation of traditional methods provides the basis for hypotheses about the order in which musical concepts are acquired when they are learned but not taught.
ISSN:1321-103X
1834-5530
DOI:10.1177/1321103X9600700101