The Cyprus Primary Education Music Curriculum by Neophytos Roussos

 

Music as a discipline has a lot of educational values and forms an integral part of the whole educational endeavour and plays an important role to the cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor development of the child.

This Curriculum is based upon contemporary musical pedagogical systems and fulfils the goals of current education.   

The various learning theories used here, require that the methodological    approaches of music teaching are based upon workshop activities, in which cognitive elements (patterns), technical skills, as well as musical activities become of equal importance.  

The most important objectives of the curriculum are the following:    development of personality and creativity, and preparation for life.  

 

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  Additudes to Music by Guy Creen
 

Education in music is most sovereign, because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the inmost soul and take strongest hold upon it, bringing with them and imparting grace, if one is rightly trained. Plato, Republic

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it. Aristotle, Politics

 

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