Music teachers are repeatedly confronted with new challenges. They are no longer educators closed in their classrooms, but animators of cultural activities for the local environment. Expansion of mass culture and the current collapse of the system of universal music education have instigated a reflection on the new role of the profession. The author scrutinises and characterises some selected models of working practices.

The paper presents the results of a study in which we analysed planning of musical objectives in the psychomotor domain prepared by 372 Slovenian general education teachers. The research results showed high share of objectives pertaining to the taxonomy category of speech behaviours, which was followed by the categories of gross bodily movements, finely coordinated movements and non-verbal communication. The above facts confirm that music objectives can be classified in the prevailing psychomotor domain and show the utilization of a chosen taxonomy model. The research results also indicate that Slovenian general education teachers are aware of the need for active approaches to music teaching although they pay less attention to music objectives planning in the category of non-verbal communication which exceeds the mere use of words and represents the basis for contemporary approach of music teaching through musical doing and making.

The musical languages of Walt Disney’s animations in the process of intercultural education

Music from Walt Disney’s animations is an element of pop culture. However, it is not a world limited to popular music but a space where ethnic music meets new sounds. The world of contemporary music enters a dialogue with the music of the sources, becoming its new translator. Thanks to Walt Disney’s film productions, multicultural music education opens up a new dimension in which globalization becomes an ally of local culture. The article addresses how both sound and word are used to present a different culture. In the cited examples, the language with its rhythm and melody is treated as an interesting musical material. Selected Walt Disney films were analyzed – their soundtracks as well as articles and reviews, blogs about the studio’s musical productions. In the considerations, a lot of attention was devoted to the song, which is the carrier of the main content of the film and the most frequently played element of the film image. Some attempts were made to indicate its functions in intercultural education, but also the ways of its use in child education.

The paper deals with axiological aspects of folklore as intersubjective and intrasubjective communication and the folklore values education with regard to current trends of music pedagogy, in particular the integrative music pedagogy, polyaesthetic education and humanistic-creative paradigm of music pedagogy. Currently, we can see a shift in the semantic understanding of folklore – from the “diachronic-contextual” folklore towards the folklore in the modern updated application intention. The inclusion of folklore elements in the modern educational strategy may adumbrate, in a wider context, future motivating stimuli to life-long musical or cultural cultivation of an individual, to adequate hermeneutic analysis of folk art attributes, understanding its complexity, structure, connections and communication aspects.