Contents:

1) May Kokkidou: Listening - A priority.

2) Vanda Lima Bellard Freire: Musical Appreciation and the building of knowledge - first part.

3) Thomas Maropoulos: Music Analysis: I) Aims and its educational position; II) As a promotion of the relation between music and language.

4) Elissavet Perakaki: The materialization of Health, Consumer and Environmental Education Program through the teaching of Music in Secondary Education.

5) May Kokkidou: RESEARCH: An approach to the institution of music teaching assignment to specialized music teachers in the primary education - first part.

6) Fakis: Greek Song for the classroom.

7) Anastasia Kehagia: Many-sided lesson on the primary level of learning to play the piano.

Abstracts:

1) May Kokkidou
Listening- A priority*

This article focuses on the process of music listening as a priority for music learning. It presents briefly the current models suggested for the organizing of listening during the process of music learning - teaching, as well as the pedagogic principles that should govern it.
* The above article has been presented during the Poster session of the 3rd Conference of the Greek Society for Music Education held in Volos (28-30 June, 2002).

2) Vanda Lima Bellard Freire
Musical Appreciation and the building of knowledge - first part

This article focuses on musical appreciation applied to different situations of research: in Music History classes, at the University, and children beginners musical class at the Escola de Musica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In this work we intend to approach musical appreciation as an activity effectively compromised with the construction of musical knowledge, through a perspective in harmony with the critical and social pedagogy. Musical appreciation was used as a listening activity that brings a signification to the sonorous material perceived, making it possible to understand the form. This approach was based on music phenomenology. The form was considered as the structure of the music and as we perceive it. The results validate the method, and show that the people observed reached an expressive increase in musical comprehension.

3) Thomas Maropoulos
Music Analysis: I) Aims and its educational position; II) As a promotion of the relation between music and language

This article has the purpose to enlighten a very important and distinguished, even though neglected, part of teaching music. Through Analysis we may find the factors which compose music not only as a simple piece of art, but also as a pedagogical way to reach some intellectual targets. Of course, one factor among others is, the perception and thorough understanding of music as a concrete language; it has its glossary, syntax, meaning rules, semiology etc. So, the final part of the article designates the relationship between music and language and gives the motive for further research and additional artistic action.

4) Elissavet Perakaki
The materialization of Health, Consumer and Environmental Education Program through the teaching of Music in Secondary Education

The Ministry of Education initiated in October 1992 three programs dealing with issues in Health, Environmental and Consumer Education, to be applied in secondary schools. The objective of these programs is "the accomplishment ... of activities aiming at the intellectual and cultural development, and the creativity of students, as well as their sensitization in topics concerning their immediate and broad environment". Participation is voluntary both for teachers and students and it is outside school hours. The program encourages active and creative participation by the students, who decide on the subject to be studied together with the teacher in charge. The participation of a music teacher in the programs gives students the opportunity to pose questions relating to the role of music in our lives and helps them to further explore ensuing issues.
Ms E. Perakaki -a music teacher- initiated and materialized the programs for the 2nd Gymnasium, Amfissa, for the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 school years on the following subjects: "The effect of music listening in our mood"; "The sounds of nature and their initiation with improvised musical instruments" and; "The role of music in advertisement". This article deals with the presentation of the above work and contains:
A) The particular aims and the execution of the individual programs within the school environment;
B) The detailed content of the studied subjects (see above) seen within the frame of their corresponding program and;
C) Conclusions.

5) May Kokkidou
RESEARCH: An approach to the institution of music teaching assignment to specialized music teachers in the primary education - first part

The present research became in the schools of first degree education of band of Macedonia, without the geographic choice prosjdea’zej in something particular, aiming at the evaluation of institution of undertaking of course of music in the Municipal schools from special schoolteachers of music. Using the method of questionnaire were investigated the expectations, the attitudes of music that serve in these schools and were recorded the treaties that prevail in the school units in regard to the course of music.

7) Anastasia Kehagia
Many-sided lesson on the primary level of learning to play the piano*

The aim of the present suggestion is to approach different issues/themes of the art of playing the piano and of music in general on the primary level of studies in order to create a rich variety of stimuli, to make the most of and test the abilities of the pupil. It suggests combining different learning levels: ear training, improvisation, movements - relaxing of the body, memory training, music theory, analysis, chamber music, history of music, sight reading, composition etc. The main idea is to expand from the learning of a specific piece of music to a combination of the above mentioned. The writer's opinion is that the lesson should move in many directions and have many sides and that it should touch/refer to other issues that concern the playing of the piano e.g. improvisation, already from that early stage. The application of the proposal on the primary level aims at:
- stimulating the pupil’s intellect and developing knowledge on all levels at an early stage in a simple manner without theoretical instructions (through playing),
- familiarizing the pupil with concepts like sight reading, improvisation and dealing with the same concepts later in a natural way,
- avoiding monotony and the isolation of individual aspects of the "learning palette".
* The above article has been presented during the Poster session of the 3rd Conference of the Greek Society for Music Education held in Volos (28-30 June, 2002).