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saying that the evaluating listener role is a daily routine for them. (Rate of application
of conscious criteria or dominance of spontaneity is a topic which goes beyond these
thoughts.) If they mainly draw from their experience in other genres than in which
their teachers are seen and heard in this evaluation, and if the teachers succeeded, it
certainly is a positive foundation.
With the support of the outcomes of the research, we can claim that the folk song
in 2010 remains the main type of the vocal repertoire of music education and that this
concept is accepted by pupils as well (music textbooks also cover the artifi cial songs
for children, which are not subject of our interest now). If this reality is interpreted
as a result of pursuits of previous generations of teachers and as preserving of the
traditional concept by the contemporary teachers, this is a very positive foundation
that can make us more optimistic. The professional community has even more opti-
mistic information. According to the unoffi cial statistics NIPOS-ARTAMA, there is
a singing choir with regular performances at least at every tenth schools in the Czech
Republic, which is a fact corresponding to our foundation that 10 % of children claim
that they sing actively in a choir or solo.
Selective children and youth singing choirs successfully represent our country
in many international competitions. A lot of information from the sphere of singing
choirs may be found e.g. in a magazine for choir art CANTUS, on the website České
sbory (Czech choirs) or else. A similar situation is in the instrumental music. In the
Morava regions, there is rich activity in the sphere of folklore, we could hear about
the success of concert brass orchestras, jazz orchestras. In this context we must men-
tion the existence of the unique network of primary Music and Arts schools, which
is admired by participants of international music educational sessions from all over
Europe and the overseas; but this is not the object of our attention, neither as the fact
that there is a system of grants supporting artistic activities of the young generation
on various regional levels (towns, regions) in the CR, which is widely used mainly
by school music communities, and let’s state that the general music education may
function as a background for bringing up and searching of talented candidates for
more specialized music education. The quality of selective and more professional
singing activities is more than satisfactory. Let’s also state that the general represen-
tation of singing activities does not have a growing trend, but, on the other hand, it
neither falls. There is a precious foundation that the school public – both teachers and
pupils – know that they like singing, they sing folk songs besides other repertoire, are
aware of this fact and even evaluate it positively.
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