The paper gives an account of research on the impact of progressively understood instrumental activities on the motivation of pupils during the lessons of music education in the 2nd and 4th grades elementary school. We present the results of research performed through a pedagogical experiment that included various methods of pupil motivation. As a part of it we used children’s self-making of simple musical instruments and playing them while also using graphical depicting of music elements in an organic conjunction with further music activities.

The contribution deals with progressively understood instrumental activities during the lessons of music education while using children’s self-made musical instruments and graphical expressions of the music elements. When effectively linked to other music activities, such a concept can be a way to complex personality development of pupils. The are partially presented research results that refer to the observation of the influence of music education drawn up in this way on pupils’ musical abilities in the 2nd and 4th grades of elementary schools.