Sutartinių vaidmuo mokinių etninio ugdymo procese

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of teaching the polyphonic sutartinės in the secondary school, the reasons of choosing the profession of a teacher, and the ways of interest into the ethnic culture. As opinion about teaching the ethnic music expressed by schoolchildren, and their views towards the complexity of singing sutartinės and playing them with Lithuanian ethnic instruments has been presented in the article. It has been obvious nowadays that the ethnic music has not been accepted just as a heritage from a certain historical time. It serves people as an actual need in compensation of certain extremes and shortcomings of a contemporary culture, its passive forms of comprehension and usage of arts, lack of communication, and division of a personality. An empirical research was carried out in 2009 when 155 respondents - 137 schoolchildren and 18 teachers from Vilnius and Vilnius district secondary schools -were interviewed. Having analyzed the data it was revealed that the teachers of music were interested into sutartinės and presented them during their lessons. Nevertheless sutartinės have not been so popular and they have been introduced only in a more formal way as under the requirements of State programmes of musical education. Having disclosed the pupil's point of view into the complexity of singing sutartinės and the meaning of them, it became clear that schoolchildren acquire more and complex capabilities of singing in canon style using syncopes, learning a better feeling of the rhythm, and polyphonic thinking while getting acquired with the heritage of the ethnic culture. The schoolchildren have been able to analyze (especially the ones from the upper classes) and evaluate sutartinės as a need of learning the ethnic culture, and they realize that they are getting richer while accepting it into their world-outlook thus making their own national traditions to continue